(a) To what extent do these children subscribe to a sense of local, ethnic
or class belongingness, and what contributions do these and other
group memberships make to their personal and social identities at
different ages?
(b) To what extent are dialect, and the specific features of it, salient and
valued dimensions of class, local and ethnic identity, in relation to
other, non-linguistic, characteristics of group membership?
(c) Under what conditions do children define classroom situations as
essentially inter-group in nature, and what are the subjective components
of such construals? How, if at all, do teachers' language,
actions and pedagogical strategies contribute to the perceived intergroup
situation?
( d) What are children's attributions of their socioeconomic status position,
how do they see the vitality of it, and what cognitive alternatives
do they see open to them educationally?
(e) To what extent can children, in reality, be adequately represented in
terms of subgroups "A" and "B"; are these predictive of the types of
motivation proposed by the inter-group model?