Hard Words: The Challenge of Reading and Writing for Caribbean Students and Their Teachers
By S. Joel Warrican.
Description
"Throughout the Caribbean, there is concern about the standard of writing among students. This concern is verbalized in numerous reports from the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) on students’ performance in English in their certification examinations. Hard Words offers solutions to this problem by exploring the effects of English-based Creole on students’ writing and by promoting reading as powerful tool that can assist students and teachers in the classroom. Existing studies of adolescents’ leisure reading rarely afford the opportunity to observe them engaging wi...
ISBN(s)
9766372063, 9789766372064