Language Education in the Caribbean
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Language Education in the Caribbean

Selected Articles by Dennis Craig

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eBook - ePub

Language Education in the Caribbean

Selected Articles by Dennis Craig

About this book

Dennis Roy Craig (1929–2004) was one of the most outstanding Caribbean linguists of the twentieth century. The Society of Caribbean Linguistics honoured him in 2000 for what was described as "an academic career at once awesome and inspiring", for his devotion to Creole linguistics and his tremendous contribution to language education in the Caribbean. He was also an outstanding figure in educational leadership in the region and a poet.

In this collection, eight of Craig's most representative articles have been chosen to demonstrate his understanding of the language situation in the English-official Caribbean and the breadth of his vision in relation to the spheres of language teaching and language learning in the English-based Creole speaking societies. Although most of these articles were written between the 1970s and the 1990s, the problems and issues that they treat are what we continue to face in the twenty-first century. Language Education in the Caribbean will prove useful to language teachers, creolists, and practitioners and researchers in the field of Caribbean language education.

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Yes, you can access Language Education in the Caribbean by Jeannette Allsopp,Zellynne Jennings in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & English Language. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword: The Thoughts of a “Rip Van Winkle”?
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction: The Linguistic Contribution of Dennis Craig to Language Learning and Teaching in the English-official Caribbean - Jeannette Allsopp
  10. Chapter 1: Education and Creole English in the West Indies: Some Sociolinguistic Factors
  11. Chapter 2: Bidialectal Education: Creole and Standard in the West Indies
  12. Chapter 3: Reading and the Creole Speaker
  13. Chapter 4: The Sociology of Language Learning and Teaching in a Creole Situation
  14. Chapter 5: Creole and Standard: Partial Learning, Base Grammar and the Mesolect
  15. Chapter 6: English Language Teaching: Problems and Prospects in the West Indies
  16. Chapter 7: A Creole English Continuum and the Theory of Grammar
  17. Chapter 8: Creolistics and Education
  18. Notes on the Editors