Critical Perspectives of the Language Gap

by Eric Johnson

Book Overview

This volume is an orchestrated critique of the notion that individuals from lower socioeconomic status communities have inferior language skills as compared to middle- and upper-class groups. The idea of this so-called "language gap" stems in large part from Hart and Risley's (1995) publication Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children. Hart and Risley proposed that by age 3, children from more economically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367586665
• ISBN13: 9780367586669
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.6" x 9.4"