Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Hernandez, Miriam Bernice
Author's Email Address	mbh04@fsu.edu
URN	etd-04122010-234627
Title	Predicting Kindergarten Reading Outcomes from Initial Language and Literacy Skills: Does Dialect Density Matter?
Degree	Master of Science
Department	Teacher Education, School of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Stephanie Al Otaiba Committee Chair Carol M. Connor Committee Member Shurita Thomas-Tate Committee Member
Keywords	Minorities Reading Achievement Nonmainstream american english Dialect
Date of Defense	2010-04-02
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract In 2007 the National Assessment of Educational Progress reported that more than 54% of minority students read below basic levels (NAEP, 2007). This language gap is especially a concern for students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds which include African American students (Campbell, Dollaghan, Needleman, & Janosky, 1997). Unfortunately, this gap is continuing to grow and as students get older the gap grows wider and becomes more difficult to close (NAEP, 2007; Craig, Zhang, Hensel, Quinn, 2009). This study analyzes existing data in order to determine the association between language dialect and morpho-syntactic skills, as measured by the DELV, and reading achievement, above and beyond child characteristics and initial reading skills, in a culturally and linguistically diverse sample of kindergarten students.
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