Four-week editing and editing + dialect awareness interventions for NMAE-using elementary students

Design · All designs
Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q3 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

A short 4-week intervention delivered 15–20 minutes per day, four days per week, in small groups by trained interventionists, targeting the three NMAE features most frequently used in students' writing: "the copula, plurals, and past tense". The editing + dialect awareness variant added information on home (informal) versus school (formal) language through contrastive analysis, using "the metaphor of informal versus formal clothing" and literature with formal and informal speech. Both versions required the same implementation time and interventionists.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Students who use at least one feature of NMAE on the DELV-S or in a written narrative
• A trained interventionist and a quiet area of the school for small-group delivery

Constraints

• Targeted only second through fourth graders and only writing as the outcome context
• Focused only on the three most frequently written NMAE features

Target Learners

• Second through fourth grade students who use Non-mainstream American English

Learning Goals

• Dialect shifting to School English in writing tasks

Claims

• Dialect Shifting Malleable Explicit Contrast Enhances [+M]
• Dialect Awareness Beats Control Editing Task [+M]

Related Designs

Examples

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Key Sources

• Shurita Thomas-Tate, Carol McDonald Connor, & Lakeisha Johnson. (2013). Design Experiments: Developing and Testing an Intervention for Elementary School-age Students who use Non-mainstream American English Dialects. SREE Spring 2013 Conference Abstract. https://www.sree.org/

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title	Four-week editing and editing + dialect awareness interventions for NMAE-using elementary students
description	A short 4-week intervention delivered 15–20 minutes per day, four days per week, in small groups by trained interventionists, targeting the three NMAE features most frequently used in students' writing: "the copula, p...
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