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Language study may improve Navajo students' writing
By Ryan Boetel
September 14, 2010

Navajo students are affected in the classroom by the Navajo language, even if they don't know the language themselves, a local study found.

Eric Bateman, an English professor at San Juan College, has studied students' writing assignments for the past two years, searching for common culturally caused mistakes.

The preliminary conclusions to the study show Navajo students are prone to make particular grammatical mistakes.

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