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    Message 1: Second Dialect Acquisition

     Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:10:52 +1100
    From: Jeff Siegel <jsiegelmetz.une.edu.au>
    Subject: Second Dialect Acquisition


    Fellow LINGUISTS,

    A few weeks back I posted a query about recent studies of second dialect acquisition.

    Many thanks to the following people for replying:

    Elizabeth M. Bergman Ana Deumert Aaron E. Drews Marta Fairclough John Gainer Anthea Fraser Gupta Kirk Hazen Terri Menacker Lynn Santelman Nick Sobin Bob Trammell Natasha Warner

    Below is a list of references for studies since 1980, complied from the replies and my own list.

    Jeff Siegel University of New England Armidale, NSW 2351 Australia

    Adger, C. T. (in press). Register shifting with dialect resources in instructional discourse. In S. Hoyle & C. T. Adger (Eds.), Language practices of older children. New York: Oxford University Press.

    Ammon, Ulrich. 1989. Aspects of dialect and school in the Federal Republic of Germany. In Jenny Cheshire et al (Eds.), pp. 113-138.

    Au, Kathry H. 1976. KEEP reading research. Honolulu: Kamehameha Early Education Program (Technical Report no. 57).

    Barbour, Stephen. 1987. Dialects and the teaching of Standlard Language: Some West German work. Language in Society 16: 227-244.

    Bull, Tove. 1990. Teaching school beginners to read and write in the vernacular. In E.H. Jahr & O. Lorentz (Eds.), Troms Linguistics in the Eighties. Oslo: Novus Press (Troms Studies in Linguistics 11), pp. 69-84.

    Carter, Candy (Ed.) Non-native and Nonstandard Dialect Students: Classroom Practices in Teaching English, 1982-1983. Urbana, IL: National Council for the Teaching of English.

    Cheshire, Jenny & Dieter Stein, eds. 1997. Taming the Vernacular. London: Longman. Cheshire, Jenny, Viv Edwards, Henk Mnstermann & Bert Weltens, Eds. 1989. Dialect and education: Some European perspectives. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

    Cheshire, Jenny. 1982. Dialect features and linguistic conflict in schools. Educational Review 14(1): 53-67.

    Craig, Dennis. 1988. Creole English and Education in Jamaica. In C.B. Paulston (Ed.), International Handbook of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education. New York: Greenwood, pp. 297-312.

    Craig, Dennis. 1998. "Afta yu lann dem fi riid an rait dem Kriiyol, den wa muo?" Creole and the teaching of the lexifier language. Paper presented at the 3rd International Creole Workshop, Miami.

    Day, Richard R. 1989. The acquisition and maintenance of language by minority children. Language Learning 29(2): 295-303.

    Delpit, L. (1990). Language diversity and learning. In S. Hynds & D. Rubin (Eds.), Perspectives on talk and learning (pp. 247-266). Urbana, IL: NCTE.

    Escure, Genevieve. 1997 Creole and Dialect Continua: Standard Acquisition Processes in Belize and China. Amsterdam : John Benjamins.

    Fairman, Tony. 1988. Teaching the Englishes. IRAL 26(2).

    Giesbers, Herman, Sjaak Kroon & Rudi Liebrand. 1988. The Bidialectalism and primary school achievement in a Dutch Dialect Area. Language and Education, 2(2): 77-94.

    Graff, David, William Labov, and Wendell A. Harris. 1986. Testing listeners' reactions to phonological markers of ethnic identity: A new method for sociolinguistic research. In D. Sankoff (Ed.), Diversity and Diachrony. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp.45-58.

    Gupta, Anthea Fraser. 1994. The step-tongue: Children's English in Singapore. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

    Hartwell, Patrick. 1980. Dialect interference in writing: A critical review. Research in the Teaching of English 14(2): 101-118.

    Hidalgo, Margarita. 1987. On the Question of "Standard" versus "Dialect": Implications for Teaching Hispanic College Students. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 9(4). Issacs, Gale J. 1996. The persistence of non-standard dialect in school-age children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 39(2): 434-441.

    James, Carl. 1996. Mother tongue use in bilingual/bidialectal education: Implications for Bruneian Dwibahasa. Journal of Multilingual and Multi cultural Development, 17(2-4): 248-257.

    Jrgensen, J. Normann & Karen Margrethe Pedersen. 1989. Dialect and education in Denmark. In Jenny Cheshire et al (Eds.), pp. 30-47.

    Kaldor, Susan. 1991. Standard Australian English as a Second Language and as a Second Dialect. In M.L. Tickoo, Makhan L.(Ed.), Languages & Standards: Issues, Attitudes, Case Studies.

    Labov, W. 1989. The limitations of context. Evidence from misunderstandings in Chicago. CLS (Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society) 25, part 2, pp. 171-200.

    Labov, William. 1995. Can reading failure be reversed? A linguistics approach to the question. In V. Gadsden and D. Wagner (Eds.), Literacy Among African-American Youth.

    Lewis, Shirley A. 1981. Practical aspects of teaching composition to Bidialectal students: The Nairobi method. In Whiteman, Marcia Farr (Ed.), Writing: The nature development and teaching of written communication, Vol. 1, Variation in Writing. pp. 189-196.

    Liew, Elizabeth M. 1996. Developmental Interdependence Hypothesis revisted in the Brunei classroom. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 17(2-4): 195-204.

    Lippi-Green, Rosina. 1997. English with an accent. London: Routledge.

    Los Angeles Unified School District & Noma LeMoine. 1999).English for your success: Handbook of successful strategies for educators. Maywood, NJ: Peoples Publishing.

    Menacker, Terri. 1998. Second language acquisition for languages with minimal distance. Unpublished paper, Department of English as Second Language, University of Hawai'i.

    Milroy, Leslie. 1982. Language and Group Identity. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 3(3).

    Niedzielski, Nancy. 1999. The effect of social information on the perception of sociolinguistic variables. In press in Journal of Language and Social Psychology (apparently v. 18 no. 1, pp. 62-84, to appear in March).

    Ornstein Galicia, Jacob. 1980. Black English--New Role in the Classroom? Curriculum Review 19(3).

    Parry, Thomas S., and Stansfield, Charles W. (Eds). 1990. Language aptitude reconsidered. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Regents (& CAL).

    Payne, Arvilla C. 1980. Factors controlling the acquisition of the Philadelphia dialect by out-of-state children. In W. Labov (Ed.), Locating Language in Time and Space. New York: Academic Press, pp. 143-178.

    Politzer, Robert. 1993. A Researcher's Reflections on Bridging Dialect and Second Language Learning: Discussion of Problems and Solutions. In Merino, Trueba & Samaniego (Eds.), Language Culture and Learning: Teaching Spanish to Native Speakers of Spanish. London: The Falmer Press.

    Reed, Theresa C.Y. & Peter D. Pumfrey. 1992. Dialect interference and the reading attainments of British Pakistani and ethnic majority pupils. Research Papers in Education 7(1): 27-52.

    Rickford, John R. 1997a. Unequal partnership: Sociolinguistics and the African American Speech Community. Language in Society 26(2): 161-197.

    Rickford, John R. 1997b. The evolution of the Ebonics issue. Pidgins and Creoles in Education (PACE) Newsletter 8: 8-10.

    Robbins, Judy Floyd. 1988. Employers' Language Expectations and Nonstandard Dialect Speakers. English Journal 77(6).

    Roberts, J. 1997a. Hitting a moving target: Acquisition of a sound change in progress by Philadelphia children. Language Variation and Change 9: 249-266.

    Roberts, J., & Labov, W. (1995). Learning to talk Philadelphia: Acquisition of short -a by preschool children. Language Variation and Change 7: 101-112.

    Roberts, Julie. 1997b. Acquisition of variable rules: A study of (-t, d) deletion in preschool children. Journal of Child Language. Vol 24(2): 351-372.

    Rosenburg, Peter. 1989. Dialect and education in West Germany. In Jenny Cheshire et al (Eds.), pp. 62-93

    Sato, Charlene J. 1989. A nonstandard approach to standard English. TESOL Quarterly 23(2): 259-282.

    Scherloh, Jane McCabe. 1991. Teaching standard English usage: A dialect-based approach. Adult Learning 2(5): 20-22.

    Smitherman, Geneva, ed., 1981. Black English and the education of Black children and youth: Proceedings of a national invitational symposium on the King Decision. Detroit: Center for Black Studies, Wayne State University.

    Smitherman, Geneva. 1997. Black language and the education of black children: One mo once. The Black Scholar, 27(1): 28-35.

    Sobin, Nicholas. 1997. Agreement , Default Rules, and Grammatical Viruses. Linguistic Inquiry 28: 318-343

    Speidal, G.E. 1987. Language differences in the classroom: Two approaches for developing language skills in dialect-speaking children. In E. Oksaar (Ed.), Sociocultural Perspectives of Language Acquistion and Multilingualism. Turbingen, Germany: Gunter Narr.

    Starks, Judith A. 1983. The Black English controvery and its implications for addressing the educational needs of Black children: The cultural linguistic approach. In Chambers, John W. (Ed.) 1983. Black English: Educational Equity and the Law. Ann Arbor, MI: Karoma. pp. 97-132.

    Stern, Otto. 1988. Divergence and convergence of dialects and standard from the perspective of the language learner. In Peter Auer & Aldo di Luzio (Eds.), Variation and convergence: Studies in social dialectology, 134-156. Berlin: Walter de Gruyer.

    Stijnen, Sjef & Ton Vallen. 1989. The Kerkrade Project: Background, main findings and an explanation. In Jenny Cheshire et al (Eds.), pp. 139-153.

    Taylor, Hanni U. 1989. Standard English, Black English, and bidialectalism: A controversy. NY: Peter Lang.

    Taylor, Hanni. 1989. Standard English, Black English, and bidialectalism: A controversy. New York: Peter Lang.

    Valdes, Guadalupe. 1997. The teaching of Spanish to Bilingual Spanish-speaking Students: Outstanding Issues and Unanswered Questions. In M. Colombi, Cecilia & Francisco Alarcon (Eds.), La ensenanza del espanol a hispanohablantes: Praxis y teoria. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. pp. 8-44.

    Warner, Natasha. in press. Recognition of accent patterns across dialects in Japanese. Berkeley Linguistic Society 23.

    Wiley, Terrence G. 1996). The Case of African American Language, pp 125-132. A section in Chapter Six: Language, Diversity, and the Ascription of Status, pp. 119-134. In T.G. Wiley, Literacy and Language Diversity in the United States, CAL and McHenry, IL: Delta Systems.

    Williams, Ann. 1989. Dialect in school written work. In Jenny Cheshire et al (Eds.), pp. 182-199.

    Williamson, John & Frank Hardman. 1997. Those terrible marks of the beast: Non-standard dialect and children's writing. Language and education 11(4): 287-299.

    Winch, Christopher & John Gingell. 1994. Dialect interference and difficulties with writing: An investigation in St. Lucian primary schools. Language and education 8(3): 157-182.

    Wolfram, R.W. 1994. Bidialectal Literacy in the United States. In D. Spener (Ed.), Adult Biliteracy in the United States. CAL and McHenry, IL: Delta Systems.

    Wolfram, R.W. and N. Schilling-Estes. 1998. American English: Dialects and Variation. Oxford: Blackwell.

    Wolfram, Walt., Christian, Donna., & Adger, Carolyn. 1999. Dialects in Schools and Communities. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

    Woutersen, Mirjam, Albert Cox, Bert Weltens & Kees de Bot. 1994. Lexical aspects of standard dialect bilingualism. Applied Psycholinguistics 15: 447-473.

    Wyatt, T. 1995. Language development in African-American English child speech. Linguistics and Education, 7(1), 7-22.

    Wyatt, T. & Seymour, H. 1990. The implications of code-switching in Black English speakers. Equity and Excellence. (Special Issue: Language and Discrimination) 24(4): 17-18.

    Young-Scholten, M. 1985. Interference reconsidered: The role of similarity in second language acquisition. Selecta 6: 6-12.

    Youseff, Valerie. 1991. The acquisition of varilingual competence. English World-Wide 12: 87-102.