NOW PUBLISHED BY PLURAL! This classic text now in its tenth edition and now available
from Plural Publishing, The Development of Language continues its focus on language …

Since the 1950s, in analyzing the reasons US schools fail African American learners,
sociolinguists have located dialectal difference as central to the educational theater of …

Incorporating cognitive, neuropsychological, and sociocultural perspectives, this
authoritative text explains the psychological processes involved in reading and describes …

Purpose The goal of the current study was to examine the impact of dialect density on the
growth of oral language and reading skills in a sample of African American English (AAE) …

Oral storytelling skills are a complex oral discourse competency with implications for
children's academic and social well‐being, yet few studies have investigated the …

Purpose The current meta-analysis examines recent empirical research studies that have
investigated relations among dialect use and the development and achievement of reading …

Purpose: Oral narrative, or storytelling, skills may constitute a linguistic strength for African
American children, with implications for academic and social well-being. Despite this …

A number of influential linguistic analyses hold that African American English (AAE) has no
verbal–s, the–s that, for example, turns drink into drinks in more mainstream English …

It is generally assumed that learning to read involves a straightforward learning of the
mappings from speech to spelling. Yet, the majority of the world's children learn to read first …

Purpose This study was designed to examine the relationships among minority dialect use,
language ability, and young African American English (AAE)–speaking children's …