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Direct linkJohnson, Eric J. – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to outline the misguided underpinnings of the "word gap" concept promoted by Hart and Risley (1995). This concept posits that a "30 million word gap" between children of poverty and those from affluent households accounts for widespread academic disparities. Based on this premise, there has been a…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Poverty, Vocabulary Skills, Social Differences
O'Rourke, Bernadette – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2011
The purpose of this article is to examine how struggles over language ownership are played out in a minority language setting, focusing on the case of Irish in the Republic of Ireland. The article examines the more or less serious struggles that emerge between so-called native, or L1, and nonnative, or L2, speakers of Irish in a language learning…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Ownership, Language Role, Ideology
Literacy Work, 1974
The article, concerned with problems suggested by one point of a formula for effective communication (that the signs employed must refer to common experience), explores the ways in which culture blocks communication. Middle class institutions are urged to find ways to remove the barriers to communication with the poor. (AJ)
Descriptors: Advantaged, Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Cultural Awareness
Peer reviewedNourot, Patricia Moninghan; Van Hoorn, Judith L. – Young Children, 1991
A review of research on children's symbolic play discusses ways for teachers to (1) defend the inclusion of play in the curriculum; (2) understand and respect differences in the ways children play; and (3) facilitate play in the classroom. Discusses the complexity of play and the controversy about play as part of the curriculum. (GLR)
Descriptors: Creativity, Cultural Differences, Developmental Stages, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Download full textHall, William S.; Guthrie, Larry F. – 1979
A research project combining ethnographic and experimental methods is currently underway to assess whether minority groups use language in ways that put their children at a disadvantage in school. The project, which focuses on social, cognitive, and educational consequences of different patterns of language function and use, has involved…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Youth, Child Language, Cultural Differences
ENTWISLE, DORIS R.; GREENBERGER, ELLEN – 1968
AS REPORTED IN "DEVELOPMENTAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS--INNER CITY CHILDREN," ENTWISLE, 1968 (ED 011 611), INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEWS WERE CONDUCTED IN THE SLUMS OF BALTIMORE CITY WITH WHITE AND NEGRO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN AND IN SUBURBAN BALTIMORE WITH MIDDLE CLASS AND BLUE COLLAR CHILDREN. THIS SURVEY OF WORD ASSOCIATIONS REVEALED, CONTRARY TO…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Black Education, Child Development
