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ERIC Number: EJ326132
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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English and Creole: The Dialectics of Choice in a College Writing Program.
Elsasser, Nan; Irvine, Patricia
Harvard Educational Review, v55 n4 p399-415 Nov 1985
The authors document an experimental writing program for honors and remedial students at the College of the Virgin Islands. The program, which involved linguistic analyses of Creole and English, included discussion of the political, sociological, and psychological dimensions of language use and writing in and about both languages. (Author/CT)
Descriptors: College English, Creoles, Dialects, English, Higher Education, Honors Curriculum, Language Usage, Linguistics, Remedial Instruction, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: College of the Virgin Islands