Mother-tongue books in Haiti: The power of Kreyòl in learning to read and in reading to learn

This article aims at a deeper understanding of the importance of native languages in education and development, with Haiti as a case study. About half of Haiti's population is illiterate. Among ten children who enter the first grade, at most one (10%) will graduate from high school; a large pro...

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Main Author: DeGraff, Michel Anne-Frederic (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands, 2018-06-21T13:47:15Z.
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