Publications

Publication details [#13322]

Goodman, Yetta and Debra Goodman. 2000. 'I hate 'Postrophe s': Issues of Dialect and Reading Proficiency. In Peyton, Joy Kreeft, Peg Griffin, Walt Wolfram and Ralph W. Fasold. Language in Action. New Studies of Language in Society. Essays in Honor of Roger W. Shuy. Hampton Press. pp. 408–435.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | education | reading | storytelling

Language as a subject

English, African American Vernacular

Annotation

Sociolinguistic issues regarding the education of minority speakers of English dialects are addressed. It is shown that learning to read is independent of language variety.