Education Issues in Creole and Creole-Influenced Vernacular Contexts

by Ian Robertson (Editor), Hazel Simmons-McDonald (Editor)

Overview

This publication brings together the ideas, experiences of the majority of scholars in linguistics who have benefitted from the vast contribution of Professor Dennis Craig to language and language education in creole/vernacular contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789766404635
Publisher:	The University of the West Indies Press
Publication date:	08/31/2014
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

IAN ROBERTSON is retired Professor of Linguistics, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. His publications include Exploring the Boundaries of Caribbean Creole Languages (co-edited with Hazel Simmons-McDonald)

HAZEL SIMMONS-McDONALD is retired Professor of Applied Linguistics, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Principal, University of the West Indies, Open Campus. Her many publications include Exploring the Boundaries of Caribbean Creole Languages (co-edited with Ian Robertson)

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“Professor Dennis Roy Craig was, without a doubt, an outstanding Caribbean educator. Born and raised in a working-class environment in his native Guyana (British Guiana), he managed, by the end of his life to become an outstanding language educator, education planner and advisor, manager of tertiary-level institutions, and a highly respected Caribbean academic.

Dennis Craig was passionate about the teaching of language and, in particular, English language to what he termed towards the end of his career speakers of creole-influenced vernaculars. . . . Contributors to this volume are among the large numbers of academics and students who came to respect him for the manner in which he wore his considerable talents and achievements with a simplicity and humility that could only be equalled but never bettered.”

—FROM THE PREFACE

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface

Part 1. Dennis Craig in Caribbean Language Education

Dennis Craig’s Contributions to Applied Creolistics
Jeff Siegel

Dennis Craig and Language Education
Beverley Bryan

Part 2. The Background to Caribbean Language

The Niger-Congo Languages as a Linguistic Source of Caribbean English
Richard Allsopp

Revisiting Notions of “Deficiency” and “Inadequacy” in Creoles from an Applied Linguistics Perspective
Hazel Simmons-McDonald

English in Today’s World: New Challenges for Caribbean Educators
Pauline Christie

Part 3. Policy Issues and Perspectives on Vernacular Education in the Caribbean

Introducing Policies and Procedures for Vernacular Situations
Peter Roberts

Instructional Models for a Creole-Influenced Vernacular Context: The Case of St Lucia
Hazel Simmons-McDonald

The Role of Grammar in English-Language Teaching in the Anglophone Caribbean
Ian Robertson

The Landing Point: The Bilingual Education Project and the Grade 4 (2008) Results
Hubert Devonish and Karen Carpenter

The Varilingual Language Use of Trinidadian Secondary-School Teachers
Valerie Youssef

Part 4. Issues of Context

Coexisting Discourses and the Teaching of English in the Creole-Speaking Environment of Jamaica
Kathryn Shields Brodber

Literature for the Caribbean Classroom
Velma Pollard

Common Problems in Teaching French as a Foreign Language in the English-Official Caribbean
Jeannette Allsopp

Educating the Creole-Speaking Child in the North American Classroom
Ian Robertson

Teaching English to Vernacular Speakers in US and Caribbean Schools
John R. Rickford and Angela E. Rickford