The University of the West Indies, Mona

This course is designed for the teacher of English in the English-speaking Caribbean. It addresses the acquisition of a first language by children born into Creole-speaking communities and its relation to the acquisition of a second language in such an environment. For each component of language investigated, a linguistic description of the lexifier as well as the adult target Creole forms is presented. This provides a basis for discussions of the implications for the acquistion of English by these children in the pre-Primary and Primary language arts classrooms.