Using a pidgin language in formal education: Help or hindrance?  

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Siegel, Jeff

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 18 no. 1 (Mar. 1997), page 86-100.
Fulltext: Vol 18, 1, p 86-100.pdf (762.96KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/APL/18 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Pidgin and creole languages are rarely used informal education because of three arguments: (1) they are degenerate languages; (2) it is a waste of time to use a pidgin or creole when the standard language is the key to success in education and employment; and (3) the use of apidgin or creole will interfere with students, subsequent acquisition of the standard language. Linguists can easily refute the first two arguments, but not the third, because of the special circumstances when a pidgin or creole is L1 and its lexifier language is L2. This article presents the results of research which examines the claims of the third argument. This research is part of an evaluation of a pre-school program in Papua New Guinea which uses Tok Pisin (Melanesian Pidgin English) as the medium of instruction and initial literacy for students who then go on to an English-medium community school. The results show that initial instruction in Tok Pisin is actually more of a help than a hindrance to learning English and other subjects.

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