Hawaii Creole Speakers' Listening Comprehension Abilities in Standard English and Hawaii Creole. Technical Report No. 53 [electronic resource] / Kathryn H. Au and Gisela E. Speidel.

This study was conducted to determine if the low reading achievement of a group of Creole-speaking first and second graders was caused by lack of comprehension (due to dialect interference) of their Standard English texts. The materials used were three stories in Creole and three stories in Standard...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Au, Kathryn H.
Corporate Author:	Kamehameha Early Education Project
Other Authors:	Speidel, Gisela E.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1976.
Subjects:	Creoles. Interference (Language) Listening Comprehension. Nonstandard Dialects. Primary Education. Reading Achievement. Reading Comprehension. Reading Research. Second Language Learning. Standard Spoken Usage.