Executive function and narrative language abilities in emergent bilingual preschoolers: An exploratory study

E Clark-Whitney, G Melzi - Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in …, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: In light of the importance of preschool oral narrative skills as precursors to literacy,
this exploratory study examined expressive language skills among emergent bilingual …

Do Katie and Connor tell better stories than Aaliyah and Jamaal? Teachers' perceptions of children's oral narratives as a function of race and narrative quality

N Gardner-Neblett, A De Marco, BD Ebright - Early Childhood Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
While seminal research suggests that White teachers are more likely to judge the oral
narratives of Black children less favorably than stories told by White children, less attention …

Doing assessment: A multicase study of preschool teachers' language and literacy data practices

RE Schachter, SB Piasta - Reading Research Quarterly, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Early childhood research and policy have promoted the use of language and literacy
assessment data to inform instruction. Yet, there is a limited understanding of preschool …

Linguistic illusions and misconceptions: The role of language variation in language development across three varieties of American English

C Christodoulou, IM Tsimpli - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - journals.linguisticsociety.org
Prior research on the linguistic abilities of Southern English-(SE) and African-American
English-speaking children (SAAE) revealed unexpectedly high rates of risk for a language …

Exploratory examination of speech disfluencies in spoken narrative samples of school-age bidialectal children

KN Johnson, MT Mills - American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: This study examined the relationship between school-age children's speech
disfluencies and the use of and variation of Mainstream American English (MAE) and African …

Serving African American English Speakers in Schools Through Interprofessional Education & Practice

MT Mills - Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose African American English (AAE) speakers often face mismatches between home
language and school language, coupled with negative attitudes toward AAE in the …

Comprehension of complex syntactic structures in Southern varieties of American English and mainstream American English

C Christodoulou - … of the Linguistic Society of America, 2024 - journals.linguisticsociety.org
Research on the acquisition of complex syntactic structures in Southern English (SE) and
Southern African-American English (SAAE) is near-absent, though an extensive body of …

Multiple Approaches to “Appropriateness”: A Mixed‐Methods Study of Elementary Teachers' Dispositions Toward African American Language as They Teach a Dialect …

Z Maher, C Mazzei, ET Shockley… - Reading Research … - Wiley Online Library
Despite decades of sociolinguistic research, African American Language (AAL) remains
stigmatized throughout the United States education system. There have been proposals to …

A Qualitative Research Study Exploring the Lived Experiences of K-12 School Teachers Who Serve African American Students Who Speak African American …

KK Davies - 2023 - digitalcommons.liberty.edu
The purpose of the proposed transcendental phenomenological study will be to explore the
perceptions and lived experiences of k-12 schoolteachers working with African American …

Talking the Talk: Barriers to Culturally Responsive Iconographic Selection on Augmentative Alternative Communication Devices

A Doubet - 2023 - griffinshare.fontbonne.edu
The current study investigated the lived experiences of alternative augmentative
communication (AAC) users who are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and …