Gail Verdi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843921 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gail Verdi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gail |
| FAMILY NAME | Verdi |
| SIGNATURE | VERDI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kean University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4943-0744 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Working-class women academics
This study focuses on the linguistic and cultural challenges faced by four female academics from working-class backgrounds as they navigated the marginalized dialects of their working-class communities and the dominant discourse(s) and culture(s) of schools and universities. Through a series of open-ended ethnographic interviews, the authors explored the evolution and insights of each woman, as she considered how her socio-linguistic identities w…
The Intelligibility of Social Dialects for Working-class Adult Learners of English
This study investigated the intelligibility of three English dialects for 113 working-class adult English learners in the New York metropolitan area. The relative intelligibility of standard English, New Yorkese, and black English for these students was rated based on comprehension of six tape-recorded contextualized monologues, two in each dialect. Learner proficiency was rated by cloze procedure, and most students were found to be at the interm…
The Intelligibility of Social Dialects for Working-class Adult Learners of English
This study investigated the intelligibility of three English dialects for 113 working-class adult English learners in the New York metropolitan area. The relative intelligibility of standard English, New Yorkese, and black English for these students was rated based on comprehension of six tape-recorded contextualized monologues, two in each dialect. Learner proficiency was rated by cloze procedure, and most students were found to be at the interm…
The Intelligibility of Social Dialects for Working-class Adult Learners of English
This study investigated the intelligibility of three English dialects for 113 working-class adult English learners in the New York metropolitan area. The relative intelligibility of standard English, New Yorkese, and black English for these students was rated based on comprehension of six tape-recorded contextualized monologues, two in each dialect. Learner proficiency was rated by cloze procedure, and most students were found to be at the interm…
Working-class women academics
This study focuses on the linguistic and cultural challenges faced by four female academics from working-class backgrounds as they navigated the marginalized dialects of their working-class communities and the dominant discourse(s) and culture(s) of schools and universities. Through a series of open-ended ethnographic interviews, the authors explored the evolution and insights of each woman, as she considered how her socio-linguistic identities w…
Linguistics (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Class (philosophy (1 work) · Comprehension (1 work) · Curriculum (1 work) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Ethnography (1 work)