Black and White Children's Comprehension of Standard and Nonstandard English Passages.

Marwit, Samuel J.; Neumann, Gail

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Publication Date: 1974

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Black and White Children's Comprehension of Standard and Nonstandard English Passages

Marwit, Samuel J.; Neumann, Gail

Journal of Educational Psychology, 66, 3, 329-32, Jun 74

The hypotheses that black subjects comprehend nonstandard English materials better than those in standard English and that white subjects comprehend standard English materials better than those in nonstandard English were not supported. (Author)

Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, North American English, Reading Comprehension, Whites

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