EduExchange: Collaboration or Collision: A Tale of Two Languages - Jamaican Creole and Jamaican Standard English

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Please join the Jamaica Partners for Educational Progress Community of Practice (CoP) and guest moderator Professor Beverly Bryan for an EduExchange discussion on utilizing Jamaican Creole to improve literacy and the academic performance of Jamaican students January 10-12, 2012.

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Welcome
Day 1 January 10, 2012 Development of and Attitudes Towards the Jamaican Language
Day 2 January 11, 2012 Does Jamaican Creole have a strategic place in our formal education system?
Day 3 January 12, 2012 Strategies for utilizing Jamaican Creole to support English language education
Day 4 January 13, 2012 Discussion Summary

Join us and tell us about your experiences as educators working to improve the performance of children for whom Creole is their primary language!

How do we characterise the language situation in Jamaica?
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What should be the language goals for Jamaican classrooms? What prevents us from achieving these goals?
08:49 AM|Alesia| Last comment by Beverley Bryan
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Strategies for developing target langauge competence in primary classrooms
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