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