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Ginther, Dean Webster – 1976
Interrelationships between productive oral proficiency in black dialect and in standard English and reading comprehension of passages differing in dialect and content were investigated in a sample of 98 sixth-grade black students. Results indicated that students were better readers as their oral patterns of speech were more representative of…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Failure
