Some Sociolinguistic Factors in the Production of Standard Language in Guyana and Implications for the Language Teacher  

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Cave, George N.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 20 no. 2 (Dec. 1970), page 249-264.
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Problems in the production of Standard English in Guyana have their roots deep in the historical development of the peo- ple. The great admixture within the population-comprised largely of the descendants of former African slaves, former indentured Indian immigrants, citizens of the major European colonizing powers, and the indigenous Amerindians-has led to the incorpora- tion into the Guyanese dialect of many non-English loans and pro- nunciation variants, with social-class and education contributing towards an extensive linguistic continuum. Additional problems derive from the fact that Guyanese Creole has a smaller range of possible consonant clusters than Standard English, uses as a verb any important word in the sentence, and has over two dozen forms of the personal pronoun; and all these factors militate against children of certain social-class backgrounds in the educa- tional system. Teachers of these children should resist the temptation to ridicule the children's language. They should make systematic analyses of the children's language, and compile ac- curate statistics of major variant speech forms, which should then be taken up one by one in the classroom to help the children gain mastery.

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