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Item Indirectness in Afro-American Speech Communities: Some Implications for Classroom Practice(1995-04) Pollard, VelmaThis paper discusses teacher intervention in reporting at first grade level in classrooms in Jamaica, St. Thomas, and US Virgin Islands, and looks at the possible implications for the student’s development and eventual advancement within the school system. The discussion examines both the indirect and direct responses, and includes comments on areas of the curriculum in which indirectness may have a positive value as well as those in which they operate negatively.Item Past time expression in Jamaican creole: implications for teaching English(2008-12-11T20:09:52Z) Pollard, VelmaItem Recapturing lost values - Caribbean literature in the Caribbean classroom(1992) Pollard, VelmaCaribbean literature has been used in the Caribbean classroom largely as content for developing critical and analytical skills in students. The human/humane content of the material has, to a large extent, been underplayed. This paper contends that a hidden resource for the teaching of values, now at risk in these societies, has remained unexploited. It examines two short stories and indicates how they might be used in the classroom as triggers for bringing specific values to the attention of young people. It is suggested that if the artist is the conscience of the society, this is one way in which she/he might profitably be used.Item The child and the Language Arts classroom: An interdisciplinary approach(Mar. 1979) Pollard, Velma;Item The classroom teacher and the standard language(Jan. 1983) Pollard, Velma;This paper addresses the teacher and the standard language in the post-primary institution; how he can best respond to the dilemma of the Creole-speaking child in the Standard language classroom. It discusses measures that might be used to help prepare the teacher so that classroom experience might be rewarding for teacher and pupil alikeItem The technical high school in Jamaica, 1960-68(1970) Pollard, Velma;This study discusses the emergence of the technical high school within the historical development of secondary education in Jamaica, and describes its functioning within the island's educational system. It also attempts to discover the quality of response that the institution received from the students who had been exposed to it, as well as the attitudes adopted by employers towards prospective employees who had graduated from these schoolsItem Word and meaning in Jamaica Creole: Some problems for teachers of English(1980) Pollard, Velma;