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Journal articles on the topic "English language in Jamaica"

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Coakley, John. "‘The Piracies of Some Little Privateers’: Language, Law and Maritime Violence in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean." Britain and the World 13, no. 1 (March 2020): 6–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/brw.2020.0335.

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Prior to the eighteenth century, the words ‘pirate’ and ‘privateer’ had no comprehensive English legal meanings. Scholars today who attempt to determine who in history was a ‘pirate’ run afoul of this language problem; this article aims to clarify it by tracing the etymology of ‘privateer’ in late seventeenth-century English Jamaica, where the word saw a great deal of use. Seeing Jamaica as a laboratory for language use and legal development, rather than simply a site of problematic lawlessness within the empire, it reconsiders the consolidation of English state power at the turn of the century. This article argues that ‘pirate’, an ancient but ill-defined word in early modern England, generally referred to a sea robber who acted unlawfully, but that much lawful sea raiding also occurred under various names. In about 1660, the word ‘privateer’ was born, first taking root in the new English colony of Jamaica, where it referred to the island's growing community of private seafarers. After an Anglo-Spanish treaty in 1670, Jamaicans gradually conflated ‘privateer’ and ‘pirate’, a process that culminated in a law that promised death to both. The law spread from the periphery to the metropolitan centre, but English imperial officials, prompted by the events of the Glorious Revolution, repurposed the Jamaican words, clarifying and distinguishing them to exert greater control over state violence.
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Mair, Christian. "Creolisms in an emerging standard." English World-Wide 23, no. 1 (June 13, 2002): 31–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.23.1.03mai.

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After showing that standardisation processes in spoken and written usage in Jamaica must be seen as distinct from each other, the paper focuses on the role of the creole substrate in the formation of the emergent written standard in Jamaica. The approach is corpus-based, using material from the Caribbean component of the International Corpus of English and, occasionally, from other digitised text data-bases. Jamaican Creole lexicon and grammar are shown to exert an influence on written English usage, but, generally speaking, direct borrowing of words and rules is much rarer than various forms of indirect and mediated influence, and the over-all impact of the creole is as yet limited. While probably no longer a typical English-speaking society (cf. Shields-Brodber 1997), Jamaica will continue to be an English-using one.
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Brown-Blake, Celia. "The right to linguistic non-discrimination and Creole language situations." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 23, no. 1 (April 18, 2008): 32–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.23.1.03bro.

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There has been a proposal to include language as a basis upon which discrimination should be proscribed in the Constitution of Jamaica. The proposal was considered in 2001 by a parliamentary committee which articulated certain concerns largely about the legal ramifications of a right not to be discriminated against on the ground of language. Central to the committee’s concerns are the nature and extent of the legal obligations that may arise for the state in a situation in which English is the de facto official language but in which Jamaican Creole, a largely oral, low status vernacular, not highly mutually intelligible with English, is the dominant language for a majority of Jamaicans. This article explores the concerns of the parliamentary committee. It draws upon legal decisions and principles from other jurisdictions in the area of discrimination involving language and attempts an assessment of the applicability of such principles to the Jamaican language situation and Creole language situations in general.
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Shields-Brodber, Kathryn. "Standard English in Jamaica." English World-Wide 10, no. 1 (January 1, 1989): 41–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.10.1.03shi.

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Harry, Otelemate G. "Jamaican Creole." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 36, no. 1 (May 18, 2006): 125–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002510030600243x.

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Jamaican Creole is one of the major Atlantic English-lexifier creoles spoken in the Caribbean. In Jamaica, this creole is popularly labelled as ‘Patwa’ (Devonish & Harry 2004: 441). There is a widely-held view in Jamaica that a post-creole continuum exists. The continuum is between Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole (Meade 2001: 19). Many scholars holding this view find it necessary to distinguish among acrolectal, mesolectal and basilectal varieties (Irvine 1994, Beckford-Wassink 1999, Patrick 1999, Meade 2001, among others). Major phonological differences are found between the two extremes. However, a discussion of the phonological differences in the continuum and problems with the theoretical notion of a ‘post-creole continuum’ is beyond the scope of this paper. The aim of this paper is to provide an adequate description of some salient aspects of the synchronic phonetics and phonology of Jamaican Creole based on the speech forms of two native Jamaican Creole speakers, Stacy-Ann Watt, a post-graduate female student at the University of West Indies, Mona, and Racquel Sims, 22 year old female from the parish of St Catherine. Both come from the Eastern parishes of the island.
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Hinrichs, Lars, and Jessica White-Sustaíta. "Global Englishes and the sociolinguistics of spelling." English World-Wide 32, no. 1 (February 17, 2011): 46–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.32.1.03hin.

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This paper contributes to a small, but quickly growing body of literature that looks at orthographic variation as a semiotic resource with which social stances and relations are expressed and created. First, we analyze a corpus of blog and email writing from Jamaica and its diaspora — two settings in which both Jamaican Creole (JC) and a local standard of English are in use. Here, spelling is studied quantitatively as an expression of community-level attitudes toward JC in different settings. In a second step we draw on findings from a survey on attitudes toward language varieties and spelling variation among writers of Creole and English, contextualizing the quantitative analysis. Our findings indicate that diasporic writers make use of nonstandard spellings in a way that marks those lexical items as non-English (thus: as Creole) that are part of the historically shared lexicon of JC and English but whose meanings and functions have come to differ in the two varieties. By contrast, writers living in Jamaica prefer using spelling choices to mark codeswitches between English and Creole, and thus to construct symbolic distance between the codes. A comparison between genders shows women to make a more systematic use of nonstandard spellings according to linguistic constraints than men do.
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Erskine, Noel Leo. "Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment." International Journal of Public Theology 7, no. 4 (2013): 389–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341307.

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AbstractThis article argues that Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment represents a breakthrough of grace as it re-enacts, for Jamaica as a nation, the divine miracle and humility of the incarnation: God speaking to Jamaicans in their own language, Patwa, just as Jesus Christ chose to be with a peasant family, Joseph and Mary. Jamaicans have always prayed and worshipped in Patwa, intuitively believing that God understands Patwa; yet, the translation of the New Testament into Patwa suggests that, as well as listening to and understanding God’s children when they speak to God in Patwa, God also speaks Patwa, not as a foreigner but as one who embraces and understands the nuances of Jamaican language and culture. The article looks at the formation of Jamaican Patwa in the nexus between Africa and Europe and questions in what ways Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment may serve as a source of liberation. Questions raised in the article include whether the translation of the New Testament in Patwa will reverse notions, among Jamaicans, of an inherent superiority of the English language; whether it is possible that Jamaicans will now begin to understand that no language or culture is excluded from being the bearer of Scripture or divine truth, and that no language or culture has an exclusive access to divine truth. The article also considers what this translation into the language of the masses of Jamaicans teaches concerning the nature of God and the missio Dei.
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Martynenko, Irina. "Hispanic Place Names of Jamaica: Diachronic Aspect." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 2. Jazykoznanije, no. 6 (March 2021): 123–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2020.6.9.

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Spanish components in the toponymy of the state of Jamaica are semiotic markers of the Spanish culture in this region that are presented in peculiar cartographic forms of the Spanish language. The variety of forms of geographical names under study indicates the clash of civilizations, points to heterogeneity of language contacts and multitude of lexical resources of the local toponymic system. The article presents the results of an integrated linguistic analysis with the aim to describe Jamaican Spanish toponymic units and examine their current functioning with consideration of language contacts with English and other languages. Over 300 place names of the region were identified and analyzed at the micro- and macrotoponymic levels. Using the method of thorough sampling, the units with a Spanish component, amounting to a fourth of all the studied toponyms, were identified, their structure and etymology were described. Hypotheses about the origin of some Hispanic geographical names of the region are put forward and verified. Numerous examples of Hispanic place names reflect the historical processes that influenced the birth of toponymic nominations in this multinational region from the times of Columbus to the present day. The structural and chronological criteria were taken into consideration while developing a classification of Hispanic place names of Jamaica.
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Burton, Jenny M., Karla N. Washington, and Maureen Samms-Vaughan. "Parent Report of Communication Skills of Jamaican Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Study." Communication Disorders Quarterly 41, no. 1 (March 19, 2018): 54–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1525740118760816.

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Most research related to communication skills in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been obtained from monolingual English-speaking children from high-income countries. Based on questionnaires completed by parents, this pilot study aimed to describe the communication characteristics of six children with ASD living in Jamaica. Parents had concerns about their child’s speech intelligibility, expressive language, and social communication. All children were reported to speak using Standard Jamaican English (SJE). Exposure to SJE and Jamaican Creole (JC) was reported by half of the parents. Emergent literacy was considered a relative strength. All parents reported that their child could recite the alphabet and identify some letters and that family members also helped their child print and read letters or words. Other aspects of the home literacy environment and early literacy skills were varied. Information from this group provides some insights into communication skills in children with ASD from Caribbean backgrounds.
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Xu, Xiaohui. "Corpus-based Study on African English Varieties." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 8, no. 3 (May 2, 2017): 615. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.0803.22.

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Corpus-based research is more and more used in linguistics. English varieties are used a lot in daily communications throughout the world. African English varieties are discussed in this paper, including West African English, East African English and South African English. Kenya and Tanzania corpus is the main target corpus while Jamaica corpus is used as a comparative one. The tool used is AntConc 3.2.4.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "English language in Jamaica"

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Åberg, Andreas, and Jakob Waller. "English Language Teachers’ Perception of their Role and Responsibility in three Secondary Schools in Jamaica." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-35830.

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This descriptive research paper looks at English teaching in Jamaica, and examines what perceptions upper secondary school teachers have of the teaching mission, the teacher role and the responsibility that comes with the teacher profession. The paper also examines the teachers’ attitudes towards Jamaican Creole and Standard Jamaican English and the relation between these two languages. The paper discusses inequality connected to language diversity in Jamaica and aims to explore attitudes, language ideologies and educational policies, in relation to English teaching in a Jamaican Creole speaking classroom.The study was carried out with a qualitative approach where semi-structured interviews were conducted with five teachers at three public upper secondary schools in Jamaica. The collected data was analyzed with an explorative approach.The main conclusion drawn from this study is that English teaching in a Jamaican Creole speaking classroom is affected by a number of factors. Firstly, the teachers expressed an ambivalence opinion about what language is or should be the first and second language. Secondly, teaching English in Jamaica is difficult due to the absence of a standardized written form of the students’ vernacular. Lastly, the teacher role is not limited to teach a first or second language, the teachers’ role is extended to include a great responsibility for the students’ future life
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Gillespie, Sandra Walton. "Maternal Shadows and Colonial Ghosts in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0716101-172936/restricted/gillespies0731.pdf.

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Manget-Johnson, Carol Anne. "Dread Talk: The Rastafarians' Linguistic Response to Societal Oppression." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07182008-150257/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008.
Title from file title page. Mary Zeigler, committee chair; Marti Singer, Lynée Gaillet, committee members. Electronic text (113 [i.e. 112] p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 1, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-110).
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Smith, Oneil St Orbine. "The Influence of Language on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4682.

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A majority of students at the local University College of Science and Education (UCSE, pseudonym) in Jamaica do not have the conceptual understanding of mathematical principles to function in a competitive and highly globalized marketplace. In 2013 and 2014, 88% and 92% of freshmen education students scored at the lowest 2 levels on the Mathematics Diagnostic Test (MDT). The instructional language at UCSE is Standard English (SE) whereas most students speak Jamaican dialect (JD). The purpose of this study was to determine the effect that the language of instruction has on student achievement in math as measured by the MDT. Guided by Vygotsky's social development theory, the research questions focused on comparing MDT change scores between students who were taught using JD and those using SE as the instructional language. The quasi-experimental design used ex post facto data including pretest and posttest MDT scores from 40 freshmen of whom 20 were instructed in JD and 20 in SE. The results of an independent sample t test showed that the difference in the MDT change score was significant. The JD students had a higher improvement score. Consequently, it is recommended that math instructors use JD to instruct freshmen education students whose native language is JD. A professional development session for math teachers was created that demonstrates how to teach in JD while simultaneously scaffolding the instruction in a way that students can learn SE and be prepared for the following year at UCSE. If students understand the math concepts in their freshman year, they are more likely to continue their college education and to become productive members of Jamaica's economy which is dependent on employees that are proficient in math.
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Wilmot, Ann-Marie. "HOW ENGLISH LANGUAGE HEAD OF DEPARTMENTS PERCEIVE THEIR ROLES in TEACHER DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHER EFFICACY: A STUDY of EIGHT JAMAICAN SCHOOLS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/468994.

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Teaching & Learning
Ed.D.
This qualitative study sought to gain deeper insights into how English Language Heads of Department (H.O.D.) perceive their roles in teacher development and efficacy, what leadership style inform their role enactment and the different skill sets and beliefs they take to their H.O.D. roles. The population was limited to selected schools in central Jamaica with a sample size of eight Heads of Departments in upgraded and traditional high schools. The motivation to conduct this research arose out of the concerns about Jamaica’s poor ratings in CXC English Language passes and my perception that insights into how H.O.D.s perceived their roles could possibly generate a solution to enable them to facilitate teaching learning experiences that could redound to improved CXC English Language results. Extensive case-based interviews, ranking activity and stimulated recall of artefacts were my primary sources of data, and I used open coding axial coding systems to analyze my data. Presently H.O.D.s engage in more traditional roles align them to a transactional approach as their leadership style. However, the changing roles of the H.O.D.s demand a more transformational leadership style. The findings suggest that some H.O.D.s’ approach is transformational, some transactional, while others display no distinct leadership style. Some play an excellent role in teacher development and efficacy, others play very little or no role. H.O.D.s perception of their role conflict with how they enact these roles and what they believe about them. The conclusion is that i H.O.D.s need a comprehensive system of training in their H.O.D.s specific roles and to help them develop and utilize more transformational leadership skills for use with their departments. Keywords: transformational and transactional leadership, heads of department/department chairs, Jamaican education
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Brown, Coote Tracey Antoinette Kay. "Students’ Perception About Their Performance In English At Three Evening Schools In Savanna La Mar." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/561906.

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This case study explored students’ perception about their performance in CSEC English A at three evening schools in Savanna La Mar. While conducting the research I used ethnographic methods, including interviews, observations and document analysis to better understand students’ perceptions of their performance in CSEC English A. The central questions which guided the research are “how do students at three evening schools in Savanna La Mar perceive their performance in CSEC English A and what factors affect those perceptions, and what strategies do students think can improve their performance in English?” Creswell’s (2008) steps for analyzing qualitative data were used to explore the central research questions. The discussion sought to highlight how students perceived their academic performance in CSEC English A and what attributed for these perceptions. These views were examined using four themes: student factors that influence student learning outcome, influence of Jamaican Creole (JC) on learning Standard Jamaican English (SJE), teacher traits that influence learning and structure and operations of the evening schools. The Attribution and Expectancy Value Theories were used to make meaning of the data. The findings revealed that most of the students exhibited high self-concept and expressed that they would be successful in the upcoming CSEC English A Examination despite previous challenges they experienced with SJE. They attributed this success to the strategies they were using and the encouragement and positive feedback they got from their teachers. However, some students cited several factors which have negatively affected their performance such as the predominant use of JC in the home, school and community. Although the research was a multiple site study, it was limited to one geographical location which delimited the generalizability of the study. However, the insights gained can contribute to and fill gaps in the literature and also enlighten educators and other stakeholders of students’ perception about their performance in CSEC English A.
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Durand, Sandra. "Une Analyse des univers de croyances des enseignants jamaïquains sur le rôle joué par le créole dans l’enseignement de l’anglais." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011CERG0547/document.

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Les réflexions des chercheurs en didactique de l'anglais ont contribué à l'avancement des notions de la langue-culture (Cain, 1981, 1984) et à la compréhension de l'enseignement de l'anglais dans un environnement créolophone (Alleyne 1971, 1980, 1989 ; Craig, 1990, 2000 ; Devonish, 1986, 2004 ; Pollard, 1998, 2003). Bien qu'aujourd'hui, la valeur culturelle du créole jamaïquain soit largement reconnue, peu de recherches ont toutefois, abordé la question des représentations des enseignants sur l'interaction entre les deux langues. Cette thèse étudie les univers de croyance et les représentations sociales des enseignants jamaïquains sur leur prise en charge des défis provoqués par les réalités sociolinguistiques de l'île. Les enseignants sont des conteurs (Connelly & Clandinin, 1990) et ils utilisent naturellement une structure narrative pour parler de leur vie professionnelle (Raymond Butt, McCue, & Yanagishi, 1992). J'ai donc opté pour une analyse de 30 heures de récit de pratique professionnelle d'enseignants. Les récits sont prélevés auprès de 10 sujets via MSN Messenger. L'objectif étant d'appréhender les croyances des enseignants du primaire en matière d'alternance codique entre créole et anglais et d'interculturalité en classe.L'angle méthodologique emprunté pour cette thèse est inspiré de la perspective ethnobiographique de Jean Poirier, Sylvie Clapier-Valladon et Paul Raybaut. Les dix récits sont tout d'abord soumis à une analyse sociolinguistique à l'aide de techniques d'analyse thématique, prenant en compte la théorie structurelle de la représentation sociale d'Abric et Flament. Les thèmes ainsi identifiés et analysés sont soumis à une analyse de discours inspirée de la théorie des opérations énonciatives d'Antoine Culioli. Les conclusions sont nuancées à l'aide des données secondaires en provenance de 100 questionnaires administrés à un échantillon d'enseignants jamaïquains et d'une analyse de six textes officiels. L'analyse croisée de ces données vise à assurer la fiabilité et la validité des résultats
Reflections of language education researchers have contributed largely to the advancement of the notions of language and culture (Cain, 1981, 1984) and the teaching of English in a Creolespeaking environment (Alleyne 1971, 1980, 1989; Craig, 1990, 2000; Devonish, 1986, 2004; Pollard, 1998, 2003). Today the cultural value of the Jamaican Creole is widely recognized, little research has, however, addressed the teacher representations on this issue. This thesis investigates the belief systems and social representation of Jamaican primary school teachers relative to their handling of the challenges brought on by the sociolinguistic realities of the island. Teachers naturally appropriate a narrative structure to talk about their professional lives (Butt Raymond, McCue, & Yanagishi, 1992). Indeed, teachers, even more so than the rest of us, are storytellers who lead storied lives (Connelly & Clandinin, 1990). I have therefore opted for an analysis of 30 hours of teacher narrative collected from 10 subjects via MSN messenger, with the objective of investigating beliefs and cultural identification with regards to Creole, English, code-switching and interculture in the Jamaican classroom at the primary level. The general methodological angle for the PHD is inspired by the ethno biographical perspective of Jean Poirier, Sylvie Clapier-Valladon and Paul Raybaut.The narratives are analyzed first from a sociolinguistic standpoint using thematic analysis techniques, specifically taking into account Abric and Flament's structural theory of social representations. The themes thus identified and analyzed are subjected to discourse analysis inspired by Antoine Culioli's theory of enonciative operations. The findings are then futher explored with the help of 100 questionnaires from Jamaican teachers and 6 official texts. This additional data provides a wider internal and external framework which ensures reliability and validity to the findings
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Harris, Treviene A. "Bleaching To Reach: Skin Bleaching as a Performance of Embodied Resistance in Jamaican Dancehall Culture." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1129.

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This thesis examines how skin bleaching can be understood within the cultural context of Jamaican dancehall. I argue that as a cultural practice, skin bleaching can be viewed as a critique of the concomitant structural inequalities precipitated by colorism, which is a by-product of racism. In proposing skin bleaching as a queer performance of color, I attempt to illustrate the manner in which the lightening of the skin exposes the instability of racism and colorism as socially constructed, discursive regimes. If race and skin color are biological and embodied facts dictated by social reality, then bodies, which are racially marked and colored subjects, can be used to project counter discourses that challenge these specific regimes. The space of discursive limit imposed on the racialized or colored body-subject is a space from which critiques of dominant discourses can be projected, and bleaching does precisely that. I conclude therefore, that skin bleaching is performed resistance which challenges the dominating discourses on race by first destabilizing the notion that skin color is an immutable biological fact, and second by contesting subsequent discourses that are contingent on the “facts” of color and race.
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Medica, Hazra C. "The influence of anxiety : re-presentations of identity in Antiguan literature from 1890 to the present." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e9aa4fdc-35f8-4ccc-b4bb-b46dc45cb52e.

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This thesis examines Antiguan narratives’ peculiar engagements with the national question. It draws largely upon the works of four writers—Jamaica Kincaid, Joanne C. Hillhouse, Marie-Elena John and Frieda Cassin—and selected calypsonians including Antigua’s leading female and male calypsonians, Queen Ivena and King Short Shirt. It reads anxiety as the chief organising principle of the singular deconstructions of gender, ‘racial’, ethnic, and class identities undertaken by these texts. I offer a retooled account of anxiety that elaborates the local/regional concept of bad-mindedness informing the core of the narratives’ deconstructive and recuperative projects. Chapter one probes the bad-minded delimiting of Antiguan literary production. It interrogates the singular cohesive Caribbean canon typically suggested by critical readings, which obscure the narratives/ literary traditions of smaller territories such as Antigua. It also highlights locally produced canons’ intervention into the dominant canons/maps of Caribbean literary traditions. Its discussion is underpinned by the concept of bad-mindedness which I use to frame the evils that locate the smaller territory and its inhabitants at the cultural periphery. Chapter two examines the texts’ enunciations of the bad-mindedness inherent in the construction of the composite gendered identities of 19th century Creole women, 20th century working-class Afro-Antiguan women and men, and 20th century proletarian Carib women. It refashions Erna Brodber’s kumbla trope, Kenneth Ramchand’s notion of terrified consciousness, and Jamaica Kincaid’s line trope to elaborate these enunciations. Chapter three examines Antiguan calypsos’ record of the peculiar responses of small-islanders to their subordinate position within the ‘global village’ and continuing entanglement in British colonialism and neo-colonial relationships and processes. It draws upon Charles Mill’s theory of smadditization/ smadditizin’ or the Afro-Caribbean struggle for recognition of personhood and Paget Henry’s account of the dependency theory to analyse the calypsos’ anxious insistence upon Afro-Antiguan personhood. The primary conclusion of my thesis is that an engagement with the neglected literary traditions of the smaller territories and national literatures on the whole, is likely to excavate a cornucopia of currently sidelined experiences, issues, and transnational relationships which can only serve to enrich our postcolonial conversations.
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Koc, Serdar Engin. "English Language Teachers." Phd thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610499/index.pdf.

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The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of teacher trainers and trainees about a web-support system and its components developed and implemented as an integral part of the in-service teacher training program entitled &ldquo
Certificate for Teaching English&rdquo
(CTE) program for the newly hired teachers in the two departments of the School of Foreign Languages at Middle East Technical University (METU). The overall design of this study was a case study which was conducted as action research within the qualitative research paradigm. Some participants&rsquo
perceived the file system as usable, reachable, and beneficial because the file types used in the web-support were in congruence with the CTE program. Some participants had difficulty finding files that they were looking for. The participants were not able to use the forum frequently enough because they did not have enough time and they were always in contact with each other during their work hours. However, they suggested the usage of compulsory activities that are separated to be used within the forum. The participants perceived the online tasks as beneficial in terms of retention and revision of sessions and showing examples of how to use video in class. The participants thought that the presence of the curriculum information on the web was essential as information. The participants perceived that the integration of web support and sessions was partial and they wanted to do some sessions online in the future. The participants perceived news section as beneficial in directing them but they thought it should be updated more often.
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Books on the topic "English language in Jamaica"

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Language in Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica: Arawak Publications, 2003.

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The Jamaica dictionary: A is fi aringe. Markham, Ont., Canada: Periwinkle, 1994.

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Le Page, R. B. 1920-, ed. Dictionary of Jamaican English. 2nd ed. Barbados: University of the West Indies Press, 2002.

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London Jamaican: Language systems in interaction. London: Longman, 1993.

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Sand, Andrea. Linguistic variation in Jamaica: A corpus-based study of radio and newspaper usage. Tübingen: G. Narr, 1999.

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Jean, D'Costa, ed. Language in exile: Three hundred years of Jamaican Creole. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990.

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Samuels, Janice. Jamaican patwa no problem: A tourist's guide to Jamaican language and culture. Jonesboro, AR: Grant House Publishers, 2009.

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Samuels, Janice. Jamaican patwa no problem: A tourist's guide to Jamaican language and culture. Jonesboro, AR: Grant House Publishers, 2009.

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Samuels, Janice. Jamaican patwa no problem: A tourist's guide to Jamaican language and culture. Jonesboro, AR: Grant House Publishers, 2009.

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The Grip: (Patois - the language as spoken by Jamaicans). [Nottingham]: Madge Hyatt, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "English language in Jamaica"

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Kouwenberg, Silvia. "The demographic context of creolization in early English Jamaica, 1655-1700." In Creole Language Library, 327–48. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cll.34.22kou.

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Sand, Andrea. "Language attitudes and linguistic awareness in Jamaican English." In Variation in the Caribbean, 163–88. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cll.37.10san.

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Rickford, John R. "Copula variability in Jamaican creole and African American vernacular English." In Towards a Social Science of Language, 357. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.127.22ric.

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Devonish, Hubert, and Karen Carpenter. "Jamaica Here, Jamaica Everywhere." In Language, Race and the Global Jamaican, 107–15. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45748-8_5.

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Frickey, Pierrette M. "Jamaica and Trinidad." In Post-Colonial English Drama, 217–35. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22436-4_15.

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Devonish, Hubert, and Karen Carpenter. "Jamaica to the World." In Language, Race and the Global Jamaican, 1–14. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45748-8_1.

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McEnery, Tony, and Robbie Love. "Bad Language." In English Language, 495–507. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57185-4_34.

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McEnery, Tony. "Bad Language." In English Language, 564–75. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07789-9_34.

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Hardie, Andrew. "Language Acquisition." In English Language, 609–24. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07789-9_37.

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Svartvik, Jan, and Geoffrey Leech. "The Standard Language Today." In English, 195–209. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-16007-2_10.

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Conference papers on the topic "English language in Jamaica"

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Watson, Stefan, and Andre Coy. "JAMLIT: A Corpus of Jamaican Standard English for Automatic Speech Recognition of Children’s Speech." In The 6th Intl. Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages. ISCA: ISCA, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/sltu.2018-50.

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Khotimah, Siti Nurul, and Dwi Ernawati. "Motivation on Early Detection of Cervical Cancer in Women of Reproductive Age: A Scoping Review." In The 7th International Conference on Public Health 2020. Masters Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.03.65.

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ABSTRACT Background: Cervical cancer ranked the fourth most cancer incidence in women. WHO announced that 311,000 women died from the disease in 2018. Cervical cancer screening uptake remains low, especially in low- and middle-income countries. This scoping review aimed to investigate the motivation for early detection of cervical cancer in women of reproductive age. Subjects and Method: A scoping review method was conducted in eight stages including (1) Identification of study problems; (2) Determining priority problem and study question; (3) Determining framework; (4) Literature searching; (5) Article selection; (6) Critical appraisal; (7) Data extraction; and (8) Mapping. The research question was identified using population, exposure, and outcome(s) (PEOS) framework. The search included PubMed, ResearchGate, and grey literature through the Google Scholar search engine databases. The inclusion criteria were English-language and full-text articles published between 2010 and 2020. A total of 275 articles were obtained by the searched database. After the review process, twelve articles were eligible for this review. The quality of searched articles was appraised by Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal tools. The data were reported by the PRISMA flow chart. Results: Seven articles from developing countries (Jamaica, Nepal, Africa, Nigeria, Libya, and Uganda) and five articles from developed countries (England, Canada, Sweden, and Japan) met the inclusion criteria with cross-sectional studies. The selected existing studies discussed 3 main themes related to motivation to early detection of cervical cancer, namely sexual and reproductive health problems, diseases, and influence factors. Conclusion: Motivation for cervical cancer screening uptake is strongly related to the early detection of cervical cancer among reproductive-aged women. Client-centered counseling and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health education play an important role in delivering information about the importance of cervical cancer screening. Keywords: motivation, cervical cancer, screening, early detection, reproductive-aged Correspondence: Siti Nurul Khotimah. Health Sciences Department of Master Program, Universitas Aisyiyah Yogyakarta. Jl. Siliwangi (Ringroad Barat) No. 63, Nogotirto, Gamping, Sleman, Yogyakarta, 55292. Email: Sitinurulkhotimah1988@gmail.com. Mobile: +6281227888442. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.03.65
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Saiful, Jepri Ali, and Pratomo Widodo. "Indonesian English Teachersr Language Attitude towards the English Language." In International Conference of Communication Science Research (ICCSR 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.10.

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Rui, Liu. "Language Attrition Theory on English Language Teaching." In 2015 International Conference on Social Science and Technology Education. Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icsste-15.2015.89.

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Glauser, Beat. "Fat Does Not Feel Creole Proverbs from Surinam, Jamaica, Guadeloupe and Martinique." In 6th Annual International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics (L3 2017). Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2251-3566_l317.38.

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Thihlum, Zaitinkhuma, Vanlalmuansangi Khenglawt, and Somen Debnath. "Machine Translation of English Language to Mizo Language." In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing in Emerging Markets (CCEM). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ccem50674.2020.00028.

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Геворгян, Ашот, and Анна Хаджи. "ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION." In SPECIALIZED AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES. European Scientific Platform, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36074/11.12.2020.v6.04.

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Korneshova, E. R., A. V. Porhunova, and N. A. Kopylova. "NEOLOGISMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE." In Modern Technologies in Science and Education MTSE-2020. Ryazan State Radio Engineering University, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21667/978-5-6044782-7-1-159-161.

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Belova, Ekaterina. "Enantiosemy In English Language Teaching." In SCTCMG 2019 - Social and Cultural Transformations in the Context of Modern Globalism. Cognitive-Crcs, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.12.04.48.

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Wastie, Martin L. "English: The Language of Shakespeare." In 5th Regional Workshop on Medical Writing for Radiologists. Singapore: The Singapore Radiological Society, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2349/biij.2.1.e14-67.

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Reports on the topic "English language in Jamaica"

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Chen, Aitao, Hailing Jiang, and Fredric Gey. English-Chinese Cross-Language IR Using Bilingual Dictionaries. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, January 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada456270.

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Suárez Acevedo, Brian Gonzalo, Kerry Kathleen Burns, Alfredo Duarte Fletcher, and José Fernando Gómez Rueda. Teaching english as a foreign language through volleyball. Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.16925/greylit.1610.

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Blumenthal, Laura. Self-Efficacy in Low-Level English Language Learners. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.1621.

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NIKITINA, IRINA. THE LANGUAGE OF CORRUPTION IN ENGLISH BUSINESS DISCOURSE. Science and Innovation Center Publishing House, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2077-1770-2020-4-3-163-169.

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This article is devoted to identifying the patterns of the use of the language of corruption in English business discourse. In the course of the research, the author analyzes functional features of the language of corruption in English business discourse and describes in detail the various techniques underlying the replacement of the direct naming of “bribe, to give a bribe” to the euphemistic one in English. The analysis allows identifying language strategies characteristic of the modern English business communication.
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Russell, Margo. A Comparison of Linguistic Features in the Academic Writing of Advanced English Language Learner and English First Language University Students. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.2022.

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Long, Kathryn. Self-perceptions of non-native English speaking teachers of English as a second language. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.5489.

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Yücel Koç, Melike. Emotion Language and Emotion Narratives of Turkish-English Late Bilinguals. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.208.

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Vandehey, Daniel. Led Down the Garden Path: Cognitive Processing of English Language Idioms. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.7228.

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Perea-Hernandez, Jose. Teacher Evaluation of Item Formats for an English Language Proficiency Assessment. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.436.

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Fox, Diane. Chinese voices : towards an ethnography of English as a second language. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.5780.

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