Connie A. Thompson|Holly K. Craig|Julie A. Washington
Variable Production of African American English Across Oracy and Literacy Contexts
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor|University of Michigan–Ann Arbor|University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
many african american students produce african american english aae features contrastive standard american english sae aaespeaking child able dialect shift speak sae across literacy contexts likely perform better academically student able dialect shift method investigation examined aae productions 50 typically developing african american third graders across three language contextspicture description oral reading sae text writing results participants produced aae picture description downward shift contrastive aae features evident spoken discourse literacy contexts students produced aae features picture description writing morphosyntactic phonological features characterized picture description context phonological features predominated oral reading contrast morphosyntactic features dominant feature writing clinical implications findings discussed terms dialectshifting abilities african american students role writing special context support entry dialect shifting