Perceptions of Black Children’s Narrative Language: A Mixed-Methods Study

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dc.contributor.authorMills, Monique
dc.contributor.authorMoore, Leslie C.
dc.contributor.authorChang, Rong
dc.contributor.authorKim, Somin
dc.contributor.authorFrick, Bethany
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-10T15:08:15Z
dc.date.available2020-09-10T15:08:15Z
dc.date.issued2021-01
dc.description.abstractPurpose: In this mixed-methods study, we address two aims. First, we examine the impact of language variation on the ratings of children’s narrative language. Secondly, we identify participants’ ideologies related to narrative language and language variation. Method: 40 adults listened to and rated six Black second-grade children on the quality of 12 narratives (six fictional, six personal). Adults then completed a quantitative survey and participated in a qualitative interview. Results: Findings indicated that adults rated students with less variation from mainstream American English (MAE) more highly than students with greater variation from MAE for fictional narratives but not for personal narratives. Personal narratives tended to be evaluated more favorably by parents than teachers. Black raters tended to assign higher ratings of narrative quality than did White raters. Thematic analysis and conversation analysis of qualitative interviews supported quantitative findings and provided pertinent information about participants’ beliefs. Conclusion: Taken together, quantitative and qualitative results point to a shared language ideology among adult raters of variation from MAE being more acceptable in informal contexts, such as telling a story of personal experience, and less acceptable in more formal contexts, such as narrating a fictional story prompted by a picture sequence.en_US
dc.description.departmentCommunication Sciences and Disordersen_US
dc.identifierhttps://pubs.asha.org/journal/lshssen_US
dc.identifier.citationCopyright 2021. This is a postprint version of a published paper that is available at: https://pubs.asha.org/journal/lshss. Recommended citation: Mills, Monique T., Leslie C. Moore, Rong Chang, Somin Kim, and Bethany Frick. "Perceptions of Black Children’s Narrative Language: A Mixed-Methods Study." Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, (2021). This item has been deposited in accordance with publisher copyright and licensing terms and with the author’s permission.
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0003-2357-8318en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10657/6986
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherLanguage, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schoolsen_US
dc.subjectnarrative assessmenten_US
dc.subjectlanguage ideologiesen_US
dc.subjectAfrican American Englishen_US
dc.subjectmixed methodsen_US
dc.subjectBlack studentsen_US
dc.titlePerceptions of Black Children’s Narrative Language: A Mixed-Methods Studyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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