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- Title
The Construction of Creole-Speaking Students' Linguistic Profile and Contradictions in ESL Literacy Programs.
- Authors
Clachar, Arlene
- Abstract
The article presents a study related to the construction of creole-speaking students' linguistic profile and contradictions in English as a second language (ESL) literacy programs in the U.S. The subjects were 43 creole-speaking immigrants from the Anglophone Caribbean in the 9th and 10th grades in a public school in south Florida. They were placed in ESL writing programs based on their performance on tests that required them to write essays. There were four lexical aspectual classes of verbs to which each verb phrase in each subject's writing was assigned: punctual, telic, activity, and stative. The study results revealed that some creole students did not exhibit the same pattern of acquisition as is posited by the aspect hypothesis for ESL learners. This study indicates that creole-English speakers represent a separate category of learners. Therefore, their literacy needs cannot be addressed by an ESL curriculum, but rather by one that attends to their specific writing challenges.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ENGLISH as a foreign language; LITERACY programs; CREOLE dialects; STUDENTS; EDUCATIONAL tests &; measurements; LINGUISTICS; ENGLISH linguistic morphology; WRITTEN English
- Publication
TESOL Quarterly, 2004, Vol 38, Issue 1, p153
- ISSN
0039-8322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3588267