PIDGIN LANGUAGE COLLEGE APPLICATION TRIAL

When we began using the SpringBoard curriculum, I did not deviate but incorporated “Mahch Fye” into the short story unit it seemed like the perfect fit for the coming-of-age theme. However, I use the personal narrative “Mahch Fye” by Kimo Armitage to introduce and teach many literary elements. As a high school English teacher at Waiakea High School, I teach to the best of my ability Standard English. It is the language I use with my elderly father, siblings, and–to a lesser extent–my children and spouse. Locally born, locally raised, I consider Hawaiian Creole English my intimate language. Raenette Marino Language Arts teacher, Waiakea High School “Coming of Age in Hawai‘i: Kimo Armitage’s Mahch Fye in the Language Arts Classroom” We also made connections to Jim Crow, To Kill a Mockingbird, African American English, and more. In brief, we began with Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue,” moved on to NCTE’s resolution “Students’ Right to Their Own Language,” Pidgin and some post-colonial dialect poetry, and ended with students sharing their original compositions of an “I Am” place-based poem.

PIDGIN LANGUAGE COLLEGE APPLICATION TRIAL

I will share my experiences doing a trial run of a unit on language and dialect in a language arts class. Susan Izawa Language Arts teacher, Hilo High School “Language and Dialect in Hawai‘i: Students Right to Their Own Language” Additionally, students are required to demonstrate that they are able to code-switch and use Pidgin in a highly academic way. Students learn the importance of code-switching first! They tell stories in both Pidgin and Standard American English. I will be talking about my cross-curricular project for ELA and SS in middle school. by Peter Stockwell.Jamie Cruz Instructional Coach, Kamaile Academy “Incorporating Pidgin into Rigorous Common Core Aligned Curriculum” Trask, Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts, 2nd ed., ed. The result is a creole, and the children who create it are the first native speakers of the creole.' (R.L.

This happens when the children in a community have nothing but a pidgin to use with other children, in which case the children take the pidgin and turn it into a real language, by fixing and elaborating the grammar and greatly expanding the vocabulary. Third, and most dramatically, it can be turned into a mother tongue. Second, it can remain in use for generations, or even centuries, as has happened with some west African pidgins. This has happened to Hawaiian pidgin, now almost entirely displaced by English, the prestige language of Hawaii. First, it may eventually drop out of use. 'There are several possible fates for a pidgin.

What we know about the history and origins of existing creoles suggests that this may happen at any stage in the development of a pidgin.' (Mark Sebba, Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles.

'A creole comes into being when children are born into a pidgin-speaking environment and acquire the pidgin as a first language.

Most pidgins are structurally simple, although if used over many generations, they do evolve, as do all languages (Aitchison, 1983 Sankoff & Laberge, 1973).' (Erika Hoff, Language Development, 5th ed., Wadsworth, 2014)

'ore than 100 pidgin languages are currently in use (Romaine, 1988).

pidgin languages survive today in territories which formerly belonged to the European colonial nations, and act as lingua francas for example, West African Pidgin English is used extensively between several ethnic groups along the West African coast.' (David Crystal, English As a Global Language.

In time, most pidgin languages disappear, as the pidgin-speaking community develops, and one of its established languages becomes widely known and takes over the role of the pidgin as the lingua franca, or language of choice of those who do not share a native language.' (Grover Hudson, Essential Introductory Linguistics.

'At first a pidgin language has no native speakers and is used just for doing business with others with whom one shares the pidgin language and no other.

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