Folking English

Since 1977 Hollis Liverpool (Chalkdcct) lamented, Our music festivals, imagine Is still piano and violin Teachers still teaching Shakespeare Why not poems of Lord Kitchener. 9 Folking English, or to put it another way, the use of the folk material - the complete package - might very well be the key...

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Published in:Caribbean quarterly 1999-06, Vol.45 (2-3), p.77-83
Main Author: MACINTOSH, L. M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Classrooms
Cultural education
Education
English
English language
English teachers
Figures of speech
First language
Folk literature
Folklore
Formal education
Inclusion
Language arts
Languages in contact
Linguistics
Literacy
Music education
Music festivals
Outcomes
Reading instruction
Sabirs. Pidgins. Creoles
Schools
Sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics
Students
Teacher education
Teaching
Trinidad
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Summary:Since 1977 Hollis Liverpool (Chalkdcct) lamented, Our music festivals, imagine Is still piano and violin Teachers still teaching Shakespeare Why not poems of Lord Kitchener. 9 Folking English, or to put it another way, the use of the folk material - the complete package - might very well be the key to several issues - literacy, disinterest, relevance, values and cultural re-enforcement. [...]in a school of this type, the standard was the traditional language of instruction. Two control groups were used. Since streaming was the normal school policy, it was easy to identify Form 2A as an above average group and Form 2C as a group whose ability was average and similar to that of Form 2S. [...]they were to demonstrate the ability to recognize definitions of figurative language.
ISSN:0008-6495
2470-6302
DOI:10.1080/00086495.1999.11829620