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Peer reviewedMorris, Carol; Nwenmely, Hubisi – Language and Education, 1993
French Creoles are spoken in many different parts of the world, including the Indian Ocean, United States, Caribbean, and South America. These Kweyol speech communities are described, in the Kweyol Project, which examines Kweyol language issues and the establishment of a Kweyol Literacy Scheme. (Contains 15 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Creoles, Foreign Countries, Language Research, Language Standardization
Peer reviewedStreet, Brian V. – Language and Education, 1994
Addresses problems that arise when literacy education is brought from national and international centers to people whose identity is with local languages and literacies. Local literacies are defined with respect to different languages and writing systems, invented local literacies, and vernacular literacies. (Contains 33 references.) (Author)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Standardization, Language Usage
Download full textBiscaye, Elizabeth; Pepper, Mary – 1989
The 1986 report by the Canadian Task Force on Aboriginal Languages, which recommended that the writing systems used for the northern Dene languages be standardized within 10 years, resulted in the 1987 Dene Standardization Project. The mandate for the project was to make recommendations on orthography standardization as the first step in the…
Descriptors: Alphabets, American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Lang, Frederick K. – 1985
One way to elicit good writing from students is to expose them to great literature and have them write about the attributes they share with a character, or about the experiences they have had that parallel those in a work of fiction, or about how a work of fiction compares with real "life." Using James Joyce's "Dubliners" as a…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Dialogs (Literary), Higher Education, Language Standardization
Peer reviewedCrosling, Glenda – Prospect, 1996
Suggests that use of grammatical and lexical features of non-standard English varieties may contribute to the confusion of international students at Australian universities when discerning the intended meaning of written words. Suggests that the establishment of assessment criteria may simplify assessment difficulties and urges that efforts be…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
Baraby, Anne-Marie – 2002
It took 25 years to develop and arrive at a consensus for a standard orthography for the language of the Innu, or Montagnais, who live in Quebec and Labrador. The principal obstacle to standardization came from dialect diversity. An effort at standardizing the spelling system in the 1970s failed because speakers were not ready to let go of the…
Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indian Languages, Canada Natives, Community Cooperation
Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, Toronto. Literacy and Basic Skills Section. – 2000
The Aboriginal Language Standardisation (ALS) Project's task is to develop quality literacy materials in order to help preserve aboriginal languages of Canada. The Canadian Assembly of First Nations, a group of tribal leaders, recently called for the establishment of standards for written and oral languages by approving terminology, developing…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Canada Natives, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
