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Item Berbice Dutch: a description(2008-12-16T09:55:35Z) Robertson, Ian E.Item Developing a meaningful language education policy for Caribbean States(1992) Robertson, Ian E.This paper examines the factors responsible for the pattern of language education that exists in the former British colonies, where the teaching and learning of languages continue to be completely instrumentally oriented. This involves the rejection of the Creole languages as having any status other than that of a bastardized form of the relevant European lexical donor language. This paper attempts to begin the type of discussion that could encourage the rethinking considered necessary. It makes a case for a more comprehensive look at language education from and education perspective, and for using the goals of education to determine the guiding principles for language education policy.Item Developing a meaningful language education policy for Caribbean states(1992) Robertson, Ian E.This paper examines the factors responsible for the pattern of language education that exists in the former British colonies, where the teaching and learning of languages continue to be completely instrumentally oriented. This involves the rejection of the Creole languages as having any status other than that of a bastardized form of the relevant European lexical doner language. This paper attempts to begin the type of discussion that could inform the rethinking considered necessary. It makes a case for a more comprehensive look at language education from an education perspective, and for using the goals of education to determine the guiding principles for language education policy.Item Teaching Standard English in Creole-based communities of the Anglophone Caribbean([1987?]) Robertson, Ian E.;Item The Caribbean language learner: A linguistic perspective(School of Languages, NIHERST, Jul. 1989) Robertson, Ian E.; Jarvis, HeatherThis paper examines some of the major linguistic characteristics of the language learner in general, and discusses how these are reflected in the Caribbean language learnerItem Towards a rational language education policy for Caribbean states(The University of the West Indies, 1993-02-07) Robertson, Ian E.This paper examines the language teaching contexts of the English-speaking with a view to identifying the level of adequacy for the fulfilment of the desired education goals. It argues that current policy has not, for a number of reasons, addressed those aspects of language education policy that are critical to the realization of the relevant of desirable goals. The proposed solution is that there should be a radical departure from the traditional approaches with their heavily individualized language focus to one that shifts the focus from the teaching of individual languages to the issues of education. This approach should see the teaching of individual languages as part of a much wider policy of language education that will address squarely the goals of the system.