Cultural Preference and the Expository Writing of African-American Adolescents
dc.contributor.author | Ball, Arnetha | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-04-14T13:51:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-04-14T13:51:22Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1992 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | BALL, ARNETHA (1992). "Cultural Preference and the Expository Writing of African-American Adolescents." Written Communication 4(9): 501-532. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/68647> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0741-0883 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/68647 | |
dc.description.abstract | Research by linguists and educators confirms the observation that aspects of the African-American experience are reflected in the grammatical, phonological, lexical, and stylistic features of African-American English and in the patterns of language use, including narrative, found in African-American speech communities. This study goes beyond prior research to investigate and characterize what Hymes refers to as the preferred patterns for the “organization of experience” among African-American adolescents. The results of the study revealed that, although subjects from several ethnic backgrounds stated a preference for using vernacular-based organizational patterns in informal oral exposition, African-American adolescents, in contrast to a group of Hispanic-American, Asian-American, and European-American adolescents, reported a strong preference for using vernacular-based patterns in academic writing tasks as they got older. These findings suggest that the organization of expository discourse is affected by cultural preference and years of schooling and that preference for organizational patterns can be viewed as an obstacle to or as a resource in successful literacy-related experiences. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 3108 bytes | |
dc.format.extent | 2880337 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.publisher | SAGE PUBLICATIONS | en_US |
dc.title | Cultural Preference and the Expository Writing of African-American Adolescents | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Anthropology and Archaeology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Education | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68647/2/10.1177_0741088392009004003.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0741088392009004003 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Abrahams, R. (1970). Deep down in the jungle; Negro narrative folklore from the streets of Philadelphia. Hatboro, PA: Folklore Associates. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Abrahams, R. (1976). Talking Black. Rowley, MA: Newbury House. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Applebee, A. N. (1981). Writing in the secondary school (Research Monograph No. 21). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Ball, A. F. (1990, April). A study of the oral and written descriptive patterns of Black adolescents in vernacular and academic discourse settings. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Convention. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Ball, A. F. (1991). Organizational patterns in the oral and written expository language of African-American adolescents. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Stanford University. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Baugh, J. (1983). Black street speech: Its history, structure, and survival. Austin: University of Texas Press. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Baugh, J. (1989). New and prevailing misconceptions of African-American English for logic and mathematics. Paper presented at Stanford University. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Britton J. (1975). The development of writing abilities. London: Macmillan Education. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Calfee, R. C., & Chambliss, M. J. (1987a). The structural design features of large texts. Educational Psychologist, 22, 357-378. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Calfee, R. C., & Chambliss, M. J. (1987b). Text analysis project reference manual. Stanford, CA: Stanford University. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Calfee, R. C., & Chambliss, M. J. (1988). Text analysis project overhead binder. Unpublished diagram, Stanford University, Text Analysis Project, Stanford, CA. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Cook, W. H. (1985). The Afro-American griot. In C. C. Brooks (Ed.), Tapping potential: English and language arts for the Black learner (pp. 260-271). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Cooper, G. C. (1980a, April). Everyone does not think alike. English Journal, pp. 45-50. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Cooper, G. C. (1980b, July). A look at our language. New Directions, pp. 14-17. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Crystal, D. (1990). A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Larson, R. (1984). Being adolescent: Conflict and growth in the teenage years. New York: Basic Books. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Erickson, F. (1984). Rhetoric, anecdote, and rhapsody: Coherence strategies in a conversation among Black American adolescents. In D. Tannen (Ed.), Coherence in spoken and written discourse (pp. 81-154). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Fasold, R. W. (1978). Tense markings in Black English: A linguistic and social analysis. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Gibbs, J. T. (1988). Young, Black, and male in America: An endangered species. Dover, MA: Auburn House. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Golden, J. L., & Rieke, R. D. (1971). The rhetoric of Black Americans. Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Gumperz, J. J., Kaltman, H., & O'Connor, M. C. (1984). Cohesion in spoken and written discourse: Ethnic style and the transition to literacy. In D. Tannen (Ed.), Coherence in spoken and written discourse (pp. 3-19). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Halliday, M.A.K. (1978). Language as a social semiotic. In Language in urban society. Baltimore, MD: University Park Press. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Halliday, M.A.K., & Hasan, R. (1976). Cohesion in English (English Language Series No. 9). New York: Longman. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Heath, S. B. (1983). Ways with words: Language, life and work in communities and classrooms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Hinds, J. (1983). Contrastive rhetoric: Japanese and English. Text, 3(2), 183-195. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Hymes, D. (1974). Foundations in sociolinguistics: An ethnographic approach. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Hymes, D. (1981). “In vain I tried to tell you”; Studies in Native American ethnopoetics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Hymes, D. (1982). Narrative form as a “grammar” of experience: Native Americans and a glimpse of English. Journal of Education, 164, 121-142. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Kochman, T. (1981). Black and White styles in conflict. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Labov, W. (1972). The logic of non-standard English. In W. Labov, Language in the inner-city: Studies in the Black English vernacular (pp. 201-240). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Original work published in 1969 in J. E. Alatis (Ed.), Report of the 21st Annual Round Table on Linguistics and Language Studies, Monograph Series on Language and Linguistics, 23. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.) | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Labov, W. (1972). Language in the inter-city: Studies in the Black English vernacular. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Langer, J. A. (1987). A sociocognitive perspective on literacy. In J. A. Langer (Ed.), Language, literacy, and culture: Issues of society and schooling (pp. 1-20). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Meyer, B.J.F. (1985). Prose analysis: Purpose, procedures, and problems, Parts 1 and 2. In B. K. Britton & J. B. Black (Eds.), Understanding expository text. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Michaels, S. (1981). “Sharing time”: Children's narrative styles and differential access to literacy. Language in Society, 10(1), 423-442. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Michaels, S., & Collins, J. (1984). Oral discourse styles: Classroom interaction and the acquisition of literacy. In D. Tannen (Ed.), Coherence in spoken and written discourse (pp. 219-244). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | National Assessment of Educational Progress. (1990). America's challenge: Accelerating academic achievement, a summary of findings from 20 years of NAEP. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Romaine, S. (1984). The language of children and adolescents: The acquisition of communicative competence (chap. 6). New York: Basil Blackwell. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Rose, M. (1990). Lives on the boundary. New York: Penguin Books. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Rosenberg, B. A. (1988). Can these dry bones live? The art of the American folk preacher. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Scollon, R., & Scollon, S. (1981). Narrative, literacy and face in interethnic communication. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Smitherman, G. (1977). Talkin and testifyin: The language of Black America. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Tannen, D. (Ed.). (1982). Spoken and written language: Exploring orality and literacy. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | Tannen, D. (1984). Coherence in spoken and written discourse (2nd ed.). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citedreference | van Dijk, T. A., & Kintsch, W. (1983). Strategies of discourse comprehension. New York: Academic. | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
Files in this item
Remediation of Harmful Language
The University of Michigan Library aims to describe library materials in a way that respects the people and communities who create, use, and are represented in our collections. Report harmful or offensive language in catalog records, finding aids, or elsewhere in our collections anonymously through our metadata feedback form. More information at Remediation of Harmful Language.
Accessibility
If you are unable to use this file in its current format, please select the Contact Us link and we can modify it to make it more accessible to you.