What Do Jamaican Children Speak? by Michele M. Kennedy
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What Do Jamaican Children Speak?


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What Do Jamaican Children Speak? A Language Resource presents a profile of aspects of the lexicon and of the morphosyntax of the speech of Jamaican three-year-olds across the island in their first year of entry into the public school system, the basic school. It is intended to serve as a resource for creolists and acquisitionists, for academics in education, for teachers of literacy and language education, as well as for intermediary and advanced tertiary-level linguistics and education students.

The language to which the children are exposed - their model in acquisition - is characterized by extreme variation and viewed as the "weaving" of features belonging to the two language systems, Jamaican Creole and Jamaican English. This variation is not random or chaotic, however. The patterns of language choice by the children are investigated, showing clearly how it is that features associated with each of the languages are woven in their speech. These findings are used as a basis for recommending an approach grounded in language awareness as the choice pedagogy for the language and literacy classroom in a language environment such as that in Jamaica.

Linguistic analysis, then, is used as a platform, a basis on which to understand the nature of the language that has been acquired by the children and used by them, leading to an informed picture of a possible way forward in English language education, allowing the teacher to transform what are frequently considered hindrances to learning English, into opportunities for learning the language.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789766406301
  • Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 444 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9766406308
  • Publisher Date: 30 Sep 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Language Resource
  • Width: 152 mm


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