Educators have become so involved with delivering the curricula that they fail to acknowledge "how" they deliver the curricula. This paper considers the different forms of verbal and nonverbal communications in the classroom, cultural communications in the classroom, and communication enhancers for the classroom--issues which are major…

Significant correlations, especially between the black and white groups, and black and Hispanic groups, indicate that all groups show similar types of non-standard English usage and generally with the same frequency. (Author)

Maintains that linguists and educators sincerely interested in black education should concentrate on devising a performance instrument to measure the degree of command of the style of any given Black English speaker rather than on establishing linguistic remediation programs to correct a non-existent remediation. (Author)

One of the most practical implications of this research is that the study of language variations in children, particularly minority group children, and attitudinal correlates be introduced into the curricula of teacher training. (Authors)

Compares effectiveness of methods for teaching reading to speakers of nonstandard English, including a 61-item bibliography on such instruction; first article in a series on oral language research, sponsored by the National Conference on Research in English. (RD)

This article presents a non-technical discussion of the way in which modern transformational generative linguistics can help in understanding the reading process. (FB)

Teachers must recognize that, according to every reliable linguistic survey of the French-speaking Caribbean area, all social classes, except recent European immigrants, speak French Carribbean Creole, not Standard French, as their first language. (JM)

Presents responses to four broad questions by one of the featured speakers at the upcoming International Reading Association convention, Jerome S. Bruner, noted psychologist and writer. (VJ)

Many linguists, psychologists and educators now believe that linguistic differences play an important role in the reading disability of disadvantaged black children. (Author)

Most of the observation, reading and discussion that has preceded this paper has been in the context of the particular educational needs of West Indian children in British schools. (Author)

The author describes an approach to teaching reading and writing in which emphasis is on the child's production of language. (Author/JB)