Paper presented at the TESOL Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1971.(VM)

Takes issue with the widely-held notion that urban black children are verbally deprived. Slightly revised version of a paper presented, in part, at the Georgetown University 20th Round Table, Washington, D.C., March 1969. Appears in "The Florida FL Reporter special anthology issue, "Linguistic-Cultural Differences and American Education. (FWB)

Based on author's doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin. (Editor)

Contends that despite many overlapping characteristics, second dialect teaching requires a methodology distinct from that used in second language teaching, and discusses psychological, sociological, cultural, and linguistic aspects of second dialect teaching. (FB)

Reviews and evaluates documents processed prior to Fall 1969 by the Educational Resources Information Center pertinent to "the manner in which nonstandard dialects differ from standard English"; a preprint from a forthcoming pamphlet of the National Conference on Research in English. (Author/SW)

An address given before the British Columbia Association of Teaching English as an Alternate Language (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, May 3, 1969). (RD)

Immigrant children from the Caribbean are disadvantaged in American urban schools because they have to adjust to new situations; do not possess complex vocabularies; are not readily understood and have difficulty understanding others; come from academically deficient home backgrounds; and must balance conflicting home and school cultures.…

Explores the tension between the manner in which intergroup language differences are used to symbolize group membership and the manner in which they mirror and reinforce social class and power distinctions. (EKN)

Reports on a study of the relationship of English phonological variation to intelligibility for adult second language learners of English. Indicates that learners tested on their ability to understand working-class (New Yorkese), educated (Standard English), and Foreign-accented speakers of English found the standard more intelligible than the…

Offers arguments for and against the teaching of grammar in the English classroom. (RL)

Describes the processes by which distinctive varieties of English develop in areas where English functions as a second language. The distinctions between rhetorical and communicative norms for speech events in these varieties are discussed. (Author/AM)