New research article

"African American English-Speaking Students: An Examination of the Relationship Between Dialect Shifting and Reading Outcomes" by Holly K. Craig, Lingling Zhang, Stephanie L. Hensel, and Erin J. Quinn was published in the August 2009 edition of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Vol. 52, pages 839-855.

In this study, the authors evaluated the contribution made by dialect shifting to reading achievement test scores of African American English (AAE)–speaking students when controlling for the effects of socioeconomic status (SES), general oral language abilities, and writing skills.

Read the abstract here.

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