French: From Dialect to Standard

Lodge, R. Anthony

doi:10.4324/9780203158142

Cited by 47 publications

(32 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…For example, the earliest French texts, the Strasbourg Oaths, date from the 9th century but the French language only began replacing Latin as a medium of instruction in 16th century France (Lodge 1993). The Korean language, for its part, already had an efficient spelling system by the mid-15th century but it only replaced the official Chinese script in 1894 (Sohn 1999: 122).…”

Section: The Processes Of Haitian Creole Instrumentalizationmentioning

confidence: 98%

See 1 more Smart Citation

French and underdevelopment, Haitian Creole and development

Hebblethwaite

2012

JPCL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article argues that Haiti’s French-dominant school system is an impediment to the nation’s development, whereas Haitian Creole-dominant education will lay the foundation for long-term development. In that Caribbean country, 95% of the population is monolingual in Haitian Creole while the portion that additionally speaks French does not exceed 5% with an additional 5–10% having some receptive competence (Valdman 1984: 78; Dejean 2006). Even though French is the language of the school system, as many as 80% of Haiti’s teachers control it inadequately and only a minority of students completes school (Dejean 2006). Economic, historical, sociolinguistic, and demographic factors are a part of the explanation for Haiti’s low educational achievement. Another important but often ignored factor iseducational language policy. Data on educational language policy compared internationally show that the use of a second language in schools correlates with high illiteracy rates and poverty (Coulmas 1992). I reject arguments in favor of maintaining French-dominant education in Haiti (Lawless 1992; Youssef 2002; Francis 2005; Ferguson 2006, etc.) because the resources for it are woefully lacking. I argue that the progressive promotion of Haitian Creole throughout Haitian education will lead to improved learning, graduation, and Creole literacy, in addition to a more streamlined and coherent State, economy, and society (Efron 1954; De Regt 1984; DeGraff 2003; Dejean 2006). As Haiti rebuilds after the earthquake of January 12th, 2010, aid workers, government employees, and researchers who get involved in the recovery also unsuspectingly perpetuate French, English, and Spanish hegemony in development work (DeGraff 2010). The long history of suppressing Haitian Creole and promoting French in education and administration — and French, English, or Spanish in development work — form underlying obstacles in the nation’s struggle to produce an adequate class of educated citizens, to achieve universal literacy, and to make socioeconomic progress.

show abstract

Section: The Processes Of Haitian Creole Instrumentalizationmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…A respectable corpus of writings emerges and attitudes begin to change. At the national level, publishing and reading in the majority language need to rival and surpass publishing and reading in the minority language (Lodge 1993).…”

Section: The Processes Of Haitian Creole Instrumentalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

French and underdevelopment, Haitian Creole and development

Hebblethwaite

2012

JPCL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Koch travaille sur le français, langue connue pour son exceptionnelle richesse au niveau de la variation stylistique (Armstrong 2011, George 1993, Lodge 1993, Sanders 1993 ; l'écart des formes entre discours normé et non standard y est donc plutôt prévisible.…”

unclassified

Jonction syntaxique et formalité du contexte

Bezzina¹

2013

multilinguales

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…French is a Romance language that was influenced by Gaulish during the time of the Roman Empire (Lodge 1993). After a successful takeover of what is now France during the reign of Julius Caesar, the Romans brought Latin with them.…”

Section: French Vs Haitian Creolementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some lexical influences from Gaulish were retained, but Latin became the dominant language. Around the third century, the area was invaded by Germanic tribes (the Franks), leading to more influences on the language, especially in regard to social terms (political, military, farming), prefixes and suffixes, and the frequency in French (more so than in other languages) to place the adjective before the noun (Lodge 1993). There were other influences between then and the Oaths of Strasbourg (the first written example of Old French) as well, primarily from other marauding tribes from the surrounding areas (Lodge 1993).…”

Section: French Vs Haitian Creolementioning

confidence: 99%

Efficacy and Implementation of Automated Essay Scoring Software in Instruction of Literacies to High Level ELLs

Alvero¹

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

French: From Dialect to Standard

Cited by 47 publications

References 0 publications

French and underdevelopment, Haitian Creole and development

French and underdevelopment, Haitian Creole and development

Jonction syntaxique et formalité du contexte

Efficacy and Implementation of Automated Essay Scoring Software in Instruction of Literacies to High Level ELLs

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About