Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six: Validation of Language Skills in the Jamaican Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 152574012110681
Author(s):  
Leslie E. Kokotek ◽  
Karla N. Washington ◽  
Barbara Jane Cunningham ◽  
Rachel Wright Karem ◽  
Brittany Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Focus Measure ◽  
Preschool Age Children ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Psychometric Evidence ◽  
Creole English ◽  
Jamaican Creole

The Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six (FOCUS) is one of a few validated outcome measures related to children’s communicative participation. Additional validation of the FOCUS measure could address the paucity of validated outcomes-based measures available for assessing preschool-age children, particularly for those who are multilingual. The data collected for this study, with a representative sample of Jamaican Creole-English speaking children, extend the applicability of the FOCUS to a broader range of preschoolers and expand psychometric evidence for the FOCUS to a multilingual and understudied context.

On the Origin of Hawaiian Creole English: A Rejoinder to Roberts

Language ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 347
Author(s):  
Morris Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Creole English

Substrate influence in Hawai‘i Creole English

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEFF SIEGEL
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Linguistic Evidence ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Creole English ◽  
Substrate Influence

Since the 1970s, it has been assumed that the diverse languages of plantation laborers in Hawai‘i had little effect on the development of Hawai‘i Creole English (HCE); this view supported theories that emphasize the role of innate linguistic universals in creolization. But recent research has revealed (a) widespread bilingualism among locally born children of laborers before HCE emerged, and (b) the dominance of two ethnic groups at the time – the Chinese and Portuguese. This article re-examines the issue of substrate influence in HCE by concentrating on these two groups. Socio-historical and linguistic evidence is presented to show the likelihood that the Cantonese and Portuguese substrates reinforced and expanded various features of existing pidgins that had diffused to Hawai‘i. Portuguese also appears to be the origin of several key features of HCE which differ from those of other creoles. The implications of these findings for universalist theories of creole genesis are discussed.

SOCIOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE POLICY AND PLANNING IN THE USA.Thom Huebner and Kathryn Davis (Eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1999. Pp. viii + 360. $90.00 cloth.

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 557-559
Author(s):  
Thomas Ricento
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
American Association ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
Creole English

This volume is a collection of papers, the majority of which were first presented on a colloquium at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference in 1997. The volume is dedicated to Charlene Junko (Charlie) Sato, who died in 1996 at the age of 44. Charlie was a political activist in several domains but was perhaps best known in applied linguistics circles for her work in support of Hawai'i Creole English (HCE) in communities and schools.

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