Dialect interference in the writing of primary school children in the commonwealth of Dominica

Jan Abd-Kadir (Hardman); F. Hardman; J. Blaize

doi:10.1023/B:ESLL.0000003604.29564.a5

Dialect interference in the writing of primary school children in the commonwealth of Dominica

Jan Abd-Kadir (Hardman), F. Hardman, J. Blaize

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Abstract

This paper reports on a small-scale, exploratory study into the impact of Creole dialect forms on the writing of 9–11-year-old pupils in the Commonwealth of Dominica. The grammatical features of these non-standard dialects and the frequency with which they occur in the pupils' writing (N = 55) are itemised and compared with similar studies carried out in England and St. Lucia. The investigation found that the use of non-standard dialect in writing was a comparatively rare phenomenon compared with other grammatical and orthographic features, and supported the findings of earlier studies. Pedagogic implications arising from the findings are considered together with some tentative pointers for future research.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	225-238
Number of pages	14
Journal	L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature
Volume	3
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1023/B:ESLL.0000003604.29564.a5
Publication status	Published - Oct 2003

Keywords

Creole
Commonwealth of Dominica
Dialect interference
Standard English
Writing development

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