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| Short Reports: Dr Frank Martinus Arion in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles and Gerry Beimers in Australia. Publications: “The use of Creole alongside Standard English to stimulate students’ learning” by William Henry; The Role of Jamaican Creole in Language Education by Velma Pollard; Language in Jamaica by Pauline Christie; African American English: An Introduction by Lisa J. Green; Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture by Marcyliena Morgan; Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English edited by Sonja L. Lanehart. Newspaper Cuttings: "From the islands to the classroom and back" from The Christian Science Monitor. Special Book Report: The Skin that We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy. Conferences: Summer Conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i in Honolulu August 14-17, 2003; Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics and Society for Caribbean Linguistics (SCL) in August 2004 in Curaçao.
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