"It Have More Soft Words": A Study of Creole English and Reading in Carriacou Grenada

by Ronald Kephart

Abstract:

In 1982-84 a group of junior secondary school children in Carriacou, Grenada, who had failed to acquire critical literacy in English, were given the opportunity to read and write their own home language, an English-lexicon creole. A phonemic spelling system designed by the PI was used. Their progress was monitored and compared to a control group. They exceeded the control group in English literacy acquisition, suggesting that children's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0530006812
• ISBN13: 9780530006819
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Dissertation Discovery Company
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 2.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.0"