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- Title
Standard and Nonstandard Dialect Competencies of Hawaiian Creole English Speakers.
- Authors
Feldman, Carol Fleisher; Stone, Addison; Wertsch, James V.; Strizich, Michael
- Abstract
The article discusses a study which investigates the cognitive implications of speaking a Creole variety of English in Hawaii. In the sentence repetition testing session, students were asked to listen to a sentence and then repeat it. All responses were taped for later scoring. The order of presentation of the Standard English (SE) and Hawiian English (HE) sections of the test was counterbalanced. Once the subjects were acquainted with the materials and procedures, they were presented with the real sentences. The repetitions of each subject were transcribed and then scored for the target linguistic features built into each sentence. Given the congruence of the findings some sort of general language ability seems to underlie performance in both dialects. A suitable educational program would seek to develop general language ability by encouraging the use of either SE or HE or both.
- Subjects
COGNITIVE testing; COGNITIVE learning; ENGLISH Creole dialects; ENGLISH language; STUDENTS; LINGUISTICS; DIALECTS; LANGUAGE &; languages; EDUCATIONAL programs
- Publication
TESOL Quarterly, 1977, Vol 11, Issue 1, p41
- ISSN
0039-8322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3585590