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Journal articles on the topic "African American Vernacular English (AAVE)"

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Arifin, Jose Aramando, and Ienneke Indra Dewi. "Lexicogrammatical Analysis on African-American Vernacular English Spoken by African-Amecian You-Tubers." E3S Web of Conferences 426 (2023): 01055. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202342601055.

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African American Vernacular English (AAVE) emerged from the historical context of African American enslavement and represents one of the numerous vernacular languages influenced by English. Today, AAVE is commonly used by African-Americans and non-African-Americans in various media platforms. This research aims to investigate the differences and similarities between AAVE spoken by African American and non-African-American YouTubers in terms of lexicogrammatical features. Additionally, it aims to know the perspectives of Indonesian learners regarding the interpretation and preference of AAVE. T

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Hibbert, Liesel. "English in South Africa: parallels with African American vernacular English." English Today 18, no. 1 (2002): 31–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078402001037.

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A comparison between Black English usage in South Africa and the United StatesThere has been a long tradition of resistance in South African politics, as there has been for African-Americans in the United States. The historical links between African Americans and their counterparts on the African continent prompt one to draw a comparison between the groups in terms of linguistic and social status. This comparison demonstrates that Black South African English (BSAfE) is a distinctive form with its own stable conventions, as representative in its own context as African American Vernacular Englis

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Nabiilah, Syarafina, and Alamsyah Alamsyah. "African American Vernacular English in Dumbo (1941) Film." Jurnal Riseta Soshum 2, no. 1 (2025): 18–23. https://doi.org/10.70392/jrs.v2i1.1823.

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This study aims to explore the popular English dialect which originated from the black people known as AAVE (African American Vernacular English), where its usage is not limited to the origin community only. Two focuses of this study will be on analysing the grammatical characteristics of AAVE and its underlying factors within the utterances from the three characters in Dumbo film, which are Timothy the mouse, the crow, and the clown by using qualitative method and the theory on AAVE dialect by Walt Wolfram and Rickford. This study applied the qualitative method and the data was gathered from

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Charity, Anne H. "Regional differences in low SES African-American children's speech in the school setting." Language Variation and Change 19, no. 3 (2007): 281–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394507000129.

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AbstractComprehensive investigations of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) have demonstrated that most features of AAVE reported in the sociolinguistic literature are consistently seen in nearly every African-American speech community in which vernacular speech has been documented. This article highlights quantitative regional differences in the speech produced by African-American children from three U.S. cities in an academic setting. In this analysis, 157 5- to 8-year-old African-American children in New Orleans, LA, Washington, DC, and Cleveland, OH imitated the sentences of a story

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Lee, Jamie Shinhee. "Globalization of African American Vernacular English in popular culture." English World-Wide 32, no. 1 (2011): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.32.1.01lee.

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This study examines crossing (Bucholtz 1999; Cutler 1999; Rampton 1995) in Korean hip hop Blinglish as a case study of globalization of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in popular culture. Blinglish in Korean hip hop can be understood as a prime example of “English from below” (Preisler 1999) to informally express subcultural identity and style. The findings of the study suggest that AAVE features appear at different linguistic levels including lexis, phonology, and morpho-syntax in Korean hip hop Blinglish but do not demonstrate the same degree of AAVE penetration, with a frequency-

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Rickford, John R., Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, et al. "Neighborhood effects on use of African-American Vernacular English." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 38 (2015): 11817–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1500176112.

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African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is systematic, rooted in history, and important as an identity marker and expressive resource for its speakers. In these respects, it resembles other vernacular or nonstandard varieties, like Cockney or Appalachian English. But like them, AAVE can trigger discrimination in the workplace, housing market, and schools. Understanding what shapes the relative use of AAVE vs. Standard American English (SAE) is important for policy and scientific reasons. This work presents, to our knowledge, the first experimental estimates of the effects of moving into low

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Rio Raka Fatra and Anit Pranita Devi. "Grammatical Features of African American Vernacular English In King of Killbranch Album." Modality Journal: International Journal of Linguistics and Literature 4, no. 1 (2024): 32–44. https://doi.org/10.30983/mj.v4i1.8375.

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This research aimed to identify and analyze the grammatical features of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) used in King Of Killbranch album by BIG30. This research also aimed to identify the most dominant grammatical feature of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) used in King Of Killbranch album. A case study method was applied to this research. The grammatical features of AAVE were analyzed based on the theories proposed by Wolfram (2004). The data analysis procedures included reading the song lyrics, sorting and identifying song lyrics that contain AAVE grammatical features, a

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Weldon, Tracey. "Variability in negation in African American Vernacular English." Language Variation and Change 6, no. 3 (1994): 359–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394500001721.

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ABSTRACTFor quantitative sociolinguists, one of the goals of investigating variability in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is to understand better the nature of the grammar. Specifically, researchers have been interested in whether the variation observed in AAVE is inherent to a single system or the result of interaction between two separate systems of AAVE and Standard English (SE). Variability in negation is an area of the AAVE grammar that has received minimal attention, but one that may offer some interesting insights into the nature of the system or systems at work. This article

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Watts, Akiah. "Attitudinal Judgments of Dialect Traits and Colorism in African Americans." Lifespans and Styles 7, no. 2 (2021): 3–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ls.v7i2.2021.6637.

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This study demonstrates how language and complexion influence professional and social perceptions of African Americans. This study contains an online verbal-guise survey where participants either saw a photo of a lighter skin-toned African-American male and female or an electronically darkened version. Audio was attached to each photo, which contains traits of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the case of the male and Standard American English for the female. The results suggest African-American females are more likely to experience colorism in professional traits while African-Ame

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Craig, Collin. "Courting the Abject: A Taxonomy of Black Queer Rhetoric." College English 79, no. 6 (2017): 619–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ce201729160.

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This essay explores how Black LGBTQ students use writing to translate and transmit African American vernacular language codes in their everyday lives. Through documenting how students experience and interpret homophobia through the prism of African American vernacular English (AAVE), I demonstrate how some use language and literacy practices to critique and perform dominant gender behaviors reflected in their community. I theorize a Black queer rhetoric as a framework for understanding and nuancing the discursive limits of African American vernacular English

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African American Vernacular English (AAVE)"

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Sutcliffe, David. "African American vernacular English : origins and issues." Thesis, University of Reading, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310623.

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Nardulli, Micaela. "(AAVE) African American Vernacular English. Features and pragmatic use of Ebonics." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019.

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AAVE is a perfectly rule-governed linguistic system which is deeply rooted in the African American culture. This paper focuses on the concept of language, its relation with social status and, more specifically, on the analysis of grammar and pronunciation through actual speech abstracts (stand-up comedy skits).

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Jones, Tiffany Marquise'. ""You Done Lost Yo' Mind Ain't No Such Thang as AAVE": Exploring African American Resistance to AAVE." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/43.

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John Rickford (1990) states that “80%-90% of African Americans speak some form of Black English”, also known as “Ebonics” or “African American Vernacular English” (AAVE). In 1996, when the Oakland School Board proposed its resolution designating Ebonics as their students’ primary language, many African Americans outright rejected the School Board’s reference and description of their language (Smitherman, 2000, 150). Among them were Baby boomers (1940-1960s), who participated in the debates, and the Generation X’ers, (1960s-1980s), who were informed by the debates. A recent interview of members

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Magnusson, Madeleine. ""Not Perfect Grammar, Always Perfect Timing" : African American Vernacular English in Black and White Rap Lyrics." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-1749.

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<p>African American Vernacular English, AAVE, is a variant of English spoken mostly by lower-class black citizens in the US. Since the most popular music genre among African Americans today is rap, this paper will describe what characterizes AAVE and rap music, and explore the use of AAVE in rap lyrics of both black and white rappers.</p><p>AAVE is different from Standard English in several respects; grammatically, phonologically and lexically. Examples of grammatical features in AAVE are invariant be, double negations and the differing use of possessive pronouns.</p><p>The hip hop industry ha

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Coleman, Jeffrey Alan. "Language Contact in the Inner City: the Acquisition of AAVE Features by Bilingual Hispanic Adolescents." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279116/.

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Sociolinguists working in Northern urban areas have shown that Hispanics who come in contact with African Americans sometimes acquire features of African American vernacular English (AAVE). However, the acquisition of AAVE features by Hispanics in the South has yet to be documented. Specifically, no one has studied the kind of English that Hispanics in Texas are acquiring. The present study investigates this issue through research in an inner-city area of Dallas: Oak Cliff. During the past twenty-five years, the population of Oak Cliff has changed from a largely African American community to i

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Everstam, Viktor. "This shit gonna get real heavy - A quantitative study on the use of African-American Vernacular English in The Wire and The Princess and the Frog. : This shit gonna get real heavy - En kvantitativ studie om hur afroamerikansk engelska används i The Wire och Prinsessan och grodan." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-82466.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate how the spoken variety African-American VernacularEnglish (AAVE) is used in entertainment. This is performed by comparing the spoken language oftwo fictional characters from two different sources of entertainment who are depicted as AAVEspeakers. The characters selected for the study are Stringer Bell from the TV-series The Wire andMama Odie from the movie The Princess and the Frog. Since the aim of this study is to compare andmeasure frequency of use of AAVE features amongst the two characters, a quantitative analysis hasbeen conducted. The findings

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Helgotsson, Maria. "Grammatical features of African American Vernacular English in the movie Sextuplets : A sociolinguistics study of the speech of the two African American characters Alan and Dawn." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101555.

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African American Vernacular English (AAVE) has been extensively explored in previous research in sociolinguistics. However, the portrayal of the sociolect in movies is still not widely researched. In order to address this gap, the purpose of this thesis is to study how AAVE is used in the movie Sextuplets (2019), directed by Michael Tiddes and co-produced by Marlon Wayans. The material used was the script excerpted from Subslikescript (2019) [www], and the study was delimited to the speech of the two characters Alan and Dawn. The method used was close reading of these two characters’ lines in

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Di, Biase Adriana. "The Representation of Central-Southern Italian Dialects and African-American Vernacular English in Translation: Issues of Cultural Transfers and National Identity." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1437053857.

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Jones, Tiffany Marquise. "You done lost yo' mind ain't no such thang as AAVE exploring African American resistance to AAVE /." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07182008-142049/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008.<br>Title from file title page. Mary Zeigler, committee chair; Carol Marsh-Lockett, George Pullman, committee members. Electronic text (82 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Nov. 19, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-72).

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Calhoun, Mackenzie Shanae. "University of Toledo Students' Reaction to African American Vernacular Features: Do Phonological Features Matter?" University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1321370549.

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Books on the topic "African American Vernacular English (AAVE)"

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Ted, Lardner, ed. African American literacies unleashed: Vernacular English and the composition classroom. Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.

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Ball, Arnetha F. African American literacies unleashed: Vernacular English and the composition classroom. Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.

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Seals, Latrice M. Vocabulary power teacher's manual: Lessons for students who use African American Vernacular English. Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co., 2007.

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Huang, Xiaozhao. A study of African-American vernacular English in America's "Middletown": Evidence of linguistic convergence. E. Mellen Press, 2000.

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Blumenfeld, Robert. Teach Yourself Accents: North America. Limelight Editions, 2013. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798216357032.

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Are you doing a play by Tennessee Williams? Or one of David Mamet's plays set in Chicago? Need to learn a Southern or Boston or New York or Caribbean Islands accent quickly, or do you have plenty of time? Then Teach Yourself Accents – North America: A Handbook for Young Actors and Speakers is for you: an easy-to-use manual full of clear, cogent advice and fascinating information. Contemporary monologues and scenes for two are included, and an enclosed CD contains the extensive practice exercises. Perfect for the young acting student, the book will help anyone beginning a study of accents to ge

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Kuthe, Desirée. African American Vernacular English. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2007.

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Durgut, Ismail. African American Vernacular English. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2009.

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Walte, Inga. African American Vernacular English. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2007.

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Jerns, Lea Lorena. Uniqueness of African American Vernacular English. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2014.

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Skordos, Jan. African-American Vernacular English Within American Âgangsta Rap'. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "African American Vernacular English (AAVE)"

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Martin, Stefan, and Walt Wolfram. "The sentence in African-American vernacular English." In African-American English. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003165330-2.

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Bailey, Guy, and Erik Thomas. "Some aspects of African-American vernacular English phonology." In African-American English. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003165330-5.

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Labov, William. "Co-existent systems in African-American vernacular English." In African-American English. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003165330-6.

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Green, Lisa. "Aspect and predicate phrases in African-American vernacular English." In African-American English. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003165330-3.

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Mufwene, Salikoko S. "The structure of the noun phrase in African-American vernacular English." In African-American English. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003165330-4.

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Smitherman, Geneva. "Word from the hood: The lexicon of African-American vernacular English." In African-American English. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003165330-8.

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Rickford, John R. "The creole origins of African-American vernacular English: Evidence from copula absence." In African-American English. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003165330-7.

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Howe, Darin. "Negation in African American Vernacular English." In Aspects of English Negation. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.132.16how.

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Rickford, John R. "AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH: ROOTS AND BRANCHES." In English and Ethnicity. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230601802_12.

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Mufwene, Salikoko S. "The English origins of African American Vernacular English." In Varieties of English Around the World. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g49.20muf.

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Conference papers on the topic "African American Vernacular English (AAVE)"

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Beiyi, Sun. "Research on African American Vernacular English --in the film “Crash”." In 6th Annual International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics (L3 2017). Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2251-3566_l317.72.

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Groenwold, Sophie, Lily Ou, Aesha Parekh, et al. "Investigating African-American Vernacular English in Transformer-Based Text Generation." In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.473.

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Chang, Kalvin, Yi-Hui Chou, Jiatong Shi, et al. "Self-supervised Speech Representations Still Struggle with African American Vernacular English." In Interspeech 2024. ISCA, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2024-2394.

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Dorn, Rachel. "Dialect-Specific Models for Automatic Speech Recognition of African American Vernacular English." In Student Research Workshop Associated with RANLP 2019. Incoma Ltd., 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.26615/issn.2603-2821.2019_003.

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Wang, Yan, and Xiaolan Lei. "A Study of African American Vernacular English of Anti-language from the Perspective of Externality of Language." In 6th Annual International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics (L3 2017). Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2251-3566_l317.110.

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Reports on the topic "African American Vernacular English (AAVE)"

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Berdan, Robert, Terrence Wiley, and Magaly Lavadenz. California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE) Position Statement on Ebonics. Center for Equity for English Learners, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.15365/ceel.statement.1997.1.

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In this position statement, the authors write in support of Ebonics (also known as African American Vernacular English, Black English, Black Dialect, and African American Language) as a legitimate language. The linguistic and cultural origins of Ebonics is traced, along with its legitimacy by professional organizations and the courts. CABE asserts that the role of schools and teachers is therefore to build on students’ knowledge of Ebonics rather than replace or eradicate Ebonics as they teach standard English. This position statement has implications for teacher training.

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