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The Use of Creole as a School Medium and Decreolization in Haiti

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Education in a multilingual context must have a dual objective: on the one hand, it must respect the dignity of the student and promote the vernacular culture by raising the status of the native language; on the other hand, it must allow students a certain level of participation in modern life and insure that they have some chance of social betterment by giving them access to their society’s dominant language and to the major languages of international communication used in their region.

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    Albert Valdman

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    Elisabetta Zuanelli Sonino

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Valdman, A. (1989). The Use of Creole as a School Medium and Decreolization in Haiti. In: Sonino, E.Z. (eds) Literacy in School and Society. Topics in Language and Linguistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0909-1_6

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