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Article: Teaching African American English forms to Standard American English-speaking teachers: effects on acquisition, attitudes, and responses to student use.
- Article from:
- Journal of Teacher Education
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
- Author:
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Several dialectic variations of English exist across the United States. These variations typically reflect cultural, regional, and/or ethnic differences. One such variation is African American English (AAE), a unique historical, cultural, linguistic system spoken by many African Americans.
AAE linguistic system. AAE differs from Standard American English (SE) on a variety of phonological, lexical, syntactic, stylistic, and usage dimensions. Linguistic researchers long ago established that AAE represents a highly developed and structurally valid linguistic system that differs in many ways from SE but is in no way deficient to it (e.g., Burling, 1973; Fasold, 1969; ...