Most Jamaican children enter school with fluency in the Jamaican Creole but little ability to use Standard English, and limited opportunities to hear and interact with it (e.g. Pollard, 1998; Christie, 2003; Bryan, 2004). Teaching strategies that involve immersion have been recommended by practitioners and education policy, but there are limits on how and how much this can be achieved in the typical classroom.
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