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Hall, R. M. R.; Hall, Beatrice L. – English Record, 1971
French Caribbean Creole, specifically Haitian Creole, is the native language of a number of students in American Schools. In order to help these students master English, the teacher should understand Creole structure and grammar. Haitian Creole is described as to: (1) Phonology--consonants; sounds present in English but lacking in Haitian Creole;…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Haitian Creole, Language Patterns

Croft, Kenneth – English Record, 1971
Discusses both the interference from language categories in language learning and the methodology of linguistic anthropologists in discovering and describing language categories which lack the formal characteristics of grammatical categories; this amounts to analysis of semantic components. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Classification, Componential Analysis, Language Instruction, Language Patterns