Publications
Publication details [#13323]
Tyndall, Belle. 2000. Tense Marking as a Distinguishing Factor in the Writing of Carribean Students in Secondary School. In Peyton, Joy Kreeft, Peg Griffin, Walt Wolfram and Ralph W. Fasold. Language in Action. New Studies of Language in Society. Essays in Honor of Roger W. Shuy. Hampton Press. pp. 436–452.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Annotation
Sociolinguistic issues regarding the education of minority speakers of English dialects are addressed: on the difficulties of Carribean students' acquisition of English past tense marking.