Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-166) and index.
Contents
Who is Malik? -- An overview of research on child AAE -- Our school-based participants and sampling procedures -- Features of child AAE -- Distributional properties of AAE in the early grades -- Nondialectal expressive and receptive language skills -- Evaluating language at school entry -- African American children in academic distress -- Relationships among language and literacy skills for African American students.