Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 0 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 1 |
Descriptor
| English | 6 |
| Pidgins | 6 |
| Second Language Learning | 6 |
| Language Variation | 4 |
| Grammar | 3 |
| Language Proficiency | 3 |
| Creoles | 2 |
| Intercultural Communication | 2 |
| Language Acquisition | 2 |
| Language Research | 2 |
| Language Role | 2 |
| More ▼ | |
Author
| Cokely, Dennis | 1 |
| Gilmore, Perry | 1 |
| Mann, Charles C. | 1 |
| Richards, Jack C. | 1 |
| Sakoda, Kent | 1 |
| Siegel, Jeff | 1 |
| Tamura, Eileen H. | 1 |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 3 |
| Information Analyses | 2 |
| Reports - Research | 2 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
| Speeches/Meeting Papers | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Download full textSakoda, Kent; Tamura, Eileen H. – Educational Perspectives, 2008
For a number of years, Kent Sakoda has been teaching at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in the Department of Second Language Studies. His course, "Pidgin and Creole English in Hawai'i," is popular among students on campus. He has also taught at Hawai'i Pacific University. Because of his expertise on the grammar of Pidgin (Hawai'i…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Pidgins, Creoles, Japanese
Peer reviewedCokely, Dennis – Sign Language Studies, 1983
Recent sociolinguistic research is used to show that the American Sign Language (ASL)-English contact situation does not result in the emergence of a pidgin as supposed. Variation along the ASL-English continuum can be accounted for by interplay of foreigner talk, judgments of proficiency, and learners' attempts to master the target language.…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar
Gilmore, Perry – 1979
The study of the spontaneous generation of a pidgin by two children, five and six years old, to accommodate their communication needs when neither had fully acquired his native language, is described. The children were an African native of a Swahili-speaking family and an American child living in the African village. The new language created was a…
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Intercultural Communication, Language Acquisition
Mann, Charles C. – 1996
Language policy and language usage trends in Nigerian education are examined, particularly as they concern the role of Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin (ANP), an inter-ethnic lingua franca. Language policy and practice for official and native languages both before and since Nigerian independence are chronicled. Results of a survey of 240 individuals in six…
Descriptors: African Languages, Colonialism, Educational Policy, English
Peer reviewedSiegel, Jeff – TESOL Quarterly, 1999
Summarizes research on educational programs that use stigmatized varieties of English in the classroom, and reviews relevant theory and research in psycholinguistics and second language acquisition. Research on educational programs shows that using the stigmatized variety in formal education seems to have a positive effect on the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Creoles, Elementary Secondary Education, English
Richards, Jack C. – 1978
From a consideration of variability in language-learner and language-user data, the concept of proficiency is considered in relation to models of second and foreign language learning. Proficiency is defined in relation to four separate dimensions: grammatical well-formedness, speech-act rules, functional elaboration, and code diversity. This…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Influences, English, English (Second Language)
