Purpose In order to provide appropriate and effective assessment and instructional activities,
teachers are encouraged to develop their cultural competency. Although speech-language …

While traditional variationist research has been critiqued for positioning ethnic and regional
variation in terms of separate “lects,” recent work has adopted a more nuanced view in …

Children who speak with nonmainstream American English (NMAE) dialects represent a
growing population in the US public school system. This article provides recommendations …

1 Introduction AAL has been one of the most studied varieties of English (or likely of any
language). For over fifty years, researchers have turned to spoken language data from …

Examining a distinctive regional variety of African American Language (AAL), this
dissertation contributes to the growing body of literature dispelling the notion that AAL is …

In the era of rapidly advancing technology, multilingual writers' semiotic landscapes are
increasingly multimodal, such that semiotics other than the written and spoken word …