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Dispelling Myths and Examining Strategies in Teaching Non-Standard Dialect Speakers to Read.
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Zimet, Sara Goodman – 1978
To dispel the myths of linguistic deficiency among nonstandard English dialect speakers, evidence that repudiates these myths should be examined. These myths include suggestions that nonstandard dialects are ungrammatical and cannot be used to form concepts, and that speakers of such dialects receive little verbal stimulation as children. The…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Dialects, Disadvantaged, Elementary Education