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- Title
Performance of African-American Adolescents on a Measure of Language Proficiency.
- Authors
Rivers, Kenyatta O.; Rosa-Lugo, Linda I.; Hedrick, Dona L.
- Abstract
Investigates the relationship between the frequency of African-American English (AAE) features used by African-American adolescent males and their performance on the seven clusters comprising the "Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery-Revised" (WLPB-R). Correlation between the frequency of AAE features produced by African-American adolescents when conversing with an AAE adult speaker; Investigation of whether African-American adolescents attending an urban high school perform at grade level expectations on the WLPB-R.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BLACK teenagers; LANGUAGE &; languages; BLACK English; ENGLISH language
- Publication
Negro Educational Review, 2004, Vol 55, Issue 2-3, p117
- ISSN
0548-1457
- Publication type
Article