Minority Educational Failure: Is Dialect a Factor?.

Toohey, Kelleen

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Publication Date: 1986

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Minority Educational Failure: Is Dialect a Factor?

Toohey, Kelleen

Curriculum Inquiry, v16 n2 p127-45 Sum 1986

Teachers of nonstandard dialect-speaking students need to become ethnographers of local communication. For minority education and bidialectal programs to work, there must be an informed awareness of community language functions and of the structural equality of all world dialects. (41 references) (CJH)

Descriptors: Bidialectalism, Bilingual Education Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Administration, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Bias, Ethnography, Language Dominance, Language of Instruction, Minority Groups, Social Dialects

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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