Publications

Publication details [#43027]

Siegel, Jeff. 2005. Literacy in Pidgin and Creole Languages. Current Issues in Language Planning 6 (2) : 143–163.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | creole | education | literacy | pidgin

Language as a subject

Creole | Pidgin

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article discusses how pidgin and creole speakers more commonly learn literacy in the standard European language officially employed in formal education. It further discusses how some pidgins and creoles do function as vernacular media of instruction for initial literacy acquisition.