Creoles in education

Migge, Bettina; Léglise, Isabelle; Bartens, Angela

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“…This process has the potential to alleviate the inferiority complex of traditional minoritised language speakers and help recruit new speakers, thereby saving variously endangered languages from obsolescence (e.g. Migge, Léglise, & Bartens 2010; Costa, de Korne, & Lane 2017; Vari & Tamburelli 2020).…”

Section: The Issues Behind Language Standardisation: From Ideologies ...mentioning

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Navigating the pitfalls of language standardisation: The imperfect binary of authenticity and anonymity in Creole-speaking Martinique

Ardoino

2023

Lang. Soc.

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Standardisation is often touted as the default means to improve attitudes towards minoritised languages and prevent/reverse their obsolescence. However, standardisation can ‘tamper’ with the indexicalities of minoritised languages, potentially alienating their speakers. Two aspects of standardisation stand out as particularly problematic: the shift from ‘ideologies of authenticity’ to ‘ideologies of anonymity’ (Woolard 2016), and the resulting introduction/intensification of prescriptivism (Eckert 1983). Although much literature focuses on the irreconcilable nature of these ideologies, I show that their discursive manifestations are neither clear-cut nor always incompatible. First, I analyse a TV debate on the standardisation of Martinican Creole (MC), in which the fault-line between authenticity and anonymity is blurred and partially overcome. Next, I draw on a Martinican activist's Instagram profile to show how various discursive strategies and a positive take on language variation can help promote MC as an ‘anonymous’ language without forgoing its ‘authenticity’ or openly stigmatising spontaneous practices. (Minoritised languages, Creoles, Martinique, maintenance, standardisation, ideologies of authenticity, anonymity, prescriptivism, purism, Abstand)*

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Navigating the pitfalls of language standardisation: The imperfect binary of authenticity and anonymity in Creole-speaking Martinique

Ardoino

2023

Lang. Soc.

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“…Pidgin and creole languages are increasingly used around the world in the media, public health awareness, vocational training and political campaigns because they are capable of facilitating the expression of thoughts as in languages such as Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish (Bloomfield 1933;Holm 2000;Jespersen 1922;Migge & Leglise 2007). However, pidgin and creole languages are largely rejected as methods of formal classroom instruction for children who speak them as first languages.…”

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“…Faraclas (1996) described Nigerian Creole as the most widely spoken language in Nigeria. Other scholars have identified the language as being systematic and rule governed, thus capable of fulfilling human linguistic needs as one would expect from languages such as Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish (Bloomfield 1933;Holm 2000;Ihemere 2006;Jespersen 1922;Migge & Leglise 2007).…”

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Nigerian Creole as language of instruction: Will Nigerian lecturers use Nigerian Creole?

Ukwuoma¹

2015

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This mixed questionnaire survey sought to determine if lecturers who learned to speak and understand Nigerian Creole before English are willing to use the language as medium of instruction. The respondents were comprised of 560 lecturers and graduate students (i.e. master’s, doctoral) selected through a purposeful random sampling frame from 15 public institutions of higher learning in Nigeria. Lecturers declined to use Nigerian Creole as medium of instruction because they feared that its use might negatively affect their students’ learning of English. Graduate students indicated willingness to receive instruction through a combination of English and Nigerian Creole because they perceived the use of Nigerian Creole as fun and representative of the voice of a new generation of Nigerians. The sample reported that prior knowledge of Nigerian Creole does not facilitate the learning of English because both languages are too different to facilitate a transfer of learning.

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“…Well-established European natural languages like English (ENG) and French (FRA), present in most ASR systems, benefit from abundant text records from different text domains [3,4]. Slavery imposed chaos in the Caribbean region [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. The resulting evolution of some creoles may differ from other languages; they can develop informally and achieve local utility, yet lack reinforcement from a formal writing system and widespread use in educational, governmental, and modern commercial contexts [6,8], [13][14][15].…”

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Automatic Speech Recognition Variance: Consecutive Runs of Low-Resource Languages in Whisper

2024

IJML

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This study employs OpenAI's Whisper to explore the manifestation of variance in an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system. Three trained languages from Whisper's current offerings (English, French, and Haitian Kreyòl) and one untrained (Saint Lucian Kwéyòl) completed thirty consecutive runs each, across five model sizes.Etymologically complex yet orthographically simple, mutually intelligible languages may challenge ASR system capabilities. However, a phonetically similar trained language model generated approximate phonetic transcripts for an untrained one. Despite implicit variance hurdles like non-determinism and data deficiencies, ASR systems may aid in documenting high-orality, low-resource languages.

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Creoles in education

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Navigating the pitfalls of language standardisation: The imperfect binary of authenticity and anonymity in Creole-speaking Martinique

Navigating the pitfalls of language standardisation: The imperfect binary of authenticity and anonymity in Creole-speaking Martinique

Nigerian Creole as language of instruction: Will Nigerian lecturers use Nigerian Creole?

Automatic Speech Recognition Variance: Consecutive Runs of Low-Resource Languages in Whisper

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