A Writing Seminar For Speakers Of Black English

Author

Patricia Ann Geuder

Publication Date

5-8-1972

Abstract

Statement of the Problem

The problem was to incorporate the findings of sociolinguistic research in Black English into a writing seminar for lower socio-economic Black students entering an institution of higher learning. This seminar was to be linguistically and pedagogically sound, efficiently structured, and motivationally effective with the result that the written dialect of Standard English would be comprehended and produced during the first term of each student's entry into the institution. The purpose of the study was to investigate the efficacy of the use of contrastive analysis methodology as a means of reducing both the kinds and numbers of dialect interferences in each student's writing.

Document Type

Dissertation

Language

English

Degree Name

Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy

First Committee Member (Chair)

Peter Prouse

Second Committee Member

Robert Harold White

Third Committee Member

Alvin Wendell Howard

Recommended Citation

Geuder, Patricia Ann. "A Writing Seminar For Speakers Of Black English." (1972). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/educ_teelp_etds/535