Department of Linguistics

The Summer Dialect Teacher Project (SDTP), one of the programs of the Center for the Study of African American Language at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will be held from July 9-11, 2008. Because many school-age African American children use African American English (AAE) as their major form of communication, the goals of the SDTP are to provide information about AAE and to demonstrate how this information can be used in developing instruction to improve literacy skills. The focus of the 2008 SDTP will be on identifying AAE patterns in the language of school-age children and addressing the ways in which students’ use of non-standard dialectal patterns may influence methods of instruction and classroom success. Workshop schedule can be found at the CSAAL website.

The Summer Dialect Teacher Project (SDTP), one of the programs of the Center for the Study of African American Language at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will be held from July 9-11, 2008. Because many school-age African American children use African American English (AAE) as their major form of communication, the goals of the SDTP are to provide information about AAE and to demonstrate how this information can be used in developing instruction to improve literacy skills. The focus of the 2008 SDTP will be on identifying AAE patterns in the language of school-age children and addressing the ways in which students’ use of non-standard dialectal patterns may influence methods of instruction and classroom success. Workshop schedule can be found at the CSAAL website.

The Summer Dialect Teacher Project (SDTP), one of the programs of the Center for the Study of African American Language at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will be held from July 9-11, 2008. Because many school-age African American children use African American English (AAE) as their major form of communication, the goals of the SDTP are to provide information about AAE and to demonstrate how this information can be used in developing instruction to improve literacy skills. The focus of the 2008 SDTP will be on identifying AAE patterns in the language of school-age children and addressing the ways in which students’ use of non-standard dialectal patterns may influence methods of instruction and classroom success. Workshop schedule can be found at the CSAAL website.