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Publication details [#30452]

Van Sickle, Meta, Olaiya Aina and Mary Blake. 2002. A Case Study of the Sociopolitical Dilemmas of Gullah-speaking Students: Educational Policies and Practices. Language, Culture and Curriculum 15 (1) : 75–88.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

creole | education | language acquisition | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

English, Black | English, British | Gullah

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Annotation

This paper deals with student learning and expression problems, such as the problem of description through language, faced by speakers of non-traditional English, such as Gullah, a West African and English Creole language, the predecessor of American Black English most similar to the languages of West Africa.