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ADDITIONAL REFERENCES

The following references have some ideas for using particular varieties in the classroom, but the activities can be adapted for other varieties as well.

Berry, Rosalind & Joyce Hudson (1997). Making the jump: A Resource book for teachers of Aboriginal students. Broome: Catholic Education Office, Kimberley Region.

Coelho, Elizabeth (1988). Caribbean students in Canadian schools, Book 1. Toronto: Carib-Can Publishers.

Coelho, Elizabeth (1991). Caribbean students in Canadian schools, Book 2. Toronto: Pippin Publishing.

Fischer, Katherine (1992a). Educating speakers of Caribbean English in the United States. In J. Siegel (Ed.), Pidgins, creoles and nonstandard dialects in education (pp. 99-123). Melbourne: Applied Linguistics Association of Australia.

ILEA Afro-Caribbean Language and Literacy Project in Further Adult Education (1990). Language and power. London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Kaldor, Susan, Richard D. Eagleson & Ian G. Malcolm (1982). The teacher's task. In R.D. Eagleson, S. Kaldor & I.G. Malcolm (Eds.), English and the Aboriginal child (pp. 193-217). Canberra: Curriculum Development Centre.

Nichols, Patricia C. (1996). Pidgins and creoles. In S.L. McKay & N.H. Hornberger (Eds.), Sociolinguistics and language teaching (pp. 195-217). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Roberts, Peter A.(1994). Integrating Creole into Caribbean classrooms. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 15(1), 47-62.

Rynkofs, J. Timothy (1993). Culturally Responsive Talk Between a Second-grade Teacher and Hawaiian Children During Writing Workshop. U.M.I. Dissertation Services

Taylor, Hanni (1989). Standard English, Black English, and bidialectalism: A controversy. New York:Peter Lang.

Winer, Lise (1993). Teaching speakers of Caribbean English Creoles in North American classrooms. In A.W. Glowka & D.M. Lance (Eds.), Language variation in North American English: Research and teaching (pp. 191-198). New York:Modern Language Association of America.

Wolfram, Walt, Carolyn Temple Adger & Donna Cristian (1999). Dialects in Schools and Communities. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

 

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