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Walking the walk? Quantifying university L2 French students' prioritization and experience of critical literacies instruction

Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract Critical pedagogical approaches such as critical literacies represent important tools for incorporating diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice into L2 teaching, an objective that is more important now than ever before. However, research has shown that implementing such practices is difficult—even for instructors who value them—due to
Julia A. Gorham
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Embarrassing Anecdotes and Recovery: Language Attitudes and the Consequences of Haiti's Language Policy

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Only 5% of the Haitian population is fully bilingual in French and Kreyòl. On the contrary, 95% of the population is monolingual in the native language, Kreyòl. The purpose of this research is to examine the attitudes of Haitian high school students toward Kreyòl and French, particularly as official languages, and investigate the effects of ...
Gerdine Michel Ulysse
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What history tells us about the development of Creole in Guadeloupe

NWIG, 1992
Review of the socio-historical context in which Creole developed in Guadeloupe. The author questions the validity of the claim made about the insignificant role of African languages in the development of creole languages.
Marie-Josée Cérol
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Precarious agency: The role of uptake

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract How do we overcome the agency dilemma, that is, account for the fact that power relations heavily affect our agency without neglecting the many ways in which oppressed people act meaningfully? This article offers a solution by paying special attention to socially complex uptake in a framework of communities of practice. In order to explain the
Deborah Mühlebach
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Mieux comprendre l’émergence de nouvelles langues

TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2021
This contribution aims at a better understanding of the emergence of creole languages by examining the role of convergence in the evolution of the perfect marker (f)in/’n in Mauritian and Seychelles Creoles.
Sibylle Kriegel
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‘In Curaçao They Celebrate King's Day Abundantly!’ – Diachronic Representation of (Post)colonial Communities in Dutch Geography Textbook Discourse (1946–2018)

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract Postcolonial textbook research leads us to reflect on the representation of (post)colonial communities in educational media for adolescents in geography education. This paper contributes to this scholarship through Critical Discourse Analysis tracing how nine Dutch geography textbooks (1946–2018) have represented such communities from ...
Marthe Wierenga, Dietha Koster
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Palatal sonorants in Portuguese-based creoles

Isogloss
The adaptation results of sounds across languages is a valuable source of information for their theoretical representation. Such research can be especially enlightening when complex or rare sounds are concerned.
Carlos Silva, Fábio Barcellos Granja
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Perspectives on Creole Genesis and Language Acquisition

Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2007
Creolists tend to view the genesis of creole languages as more complicated than do other linguists. While most linguists define creoles as those languages which originate as pidgins and then acquire native speakers, creolists have long questioned the ...
Heather Barikmo
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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Culinary Caribbean English lexicon in Panamanian Spanish

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2011
An offshoot of Caribbean Creole English, Panamanian Creole English has been the source of loanwords referring to culinary delicacies of West Indian origin in the officially Spanish-speaking Republic of Panama, whose main language has, in turn, influenced
Jamieson, Martín
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