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Carrington, Lawrence D. – TESL Talk, 1983
Presents a brief overview of the language situation in the Caribbean. Discusses language use and attitudes toward language varieties, the problems they engender for educators (both in the Caribbean and in Canada), as well as some ways of solving the problems. (EKN)
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialects, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes
Carrington, Lawrence D. – IRAL, 1969
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles, English
Peer reviewedCarrington, Lawrence D. – Linguistics, 1976
This paper focusses on factors which might inform language education policy makers in Caribbean territories where a creole language interacts with other languages having recognized standards. (POP)
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialects, Educational Policy, Language of Instruction
Carrington, Lawrence D. – IRAL, 1969
Corpus consists of five hours of recorded conversational speech. Only those deviations which fall into readily recognizable patterns are treated here. Part I, covering phonology, appeared in IRAL v7 n3 p165-184 Aug 1969 (AL 500 010). (FWB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles, English, Interference (Language)
Download full textCarrington, Lawrence D. – 1989
The study of language acquisition requires that the analyst identify the learner's target and have available a grammatical description of the target. In the case of the Caribbean Creole environment, special caution is required in identifying the learner's target because substantial variation is intrinsic to the input and ambient language. Existing…
Descriptors: Child Language, Creoles, Educational Environment, Environmental Influences
