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aol.com>FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY The Linguistics Program and African-New World Studies with additional support from Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center present THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CREOLE LANGUAGE WORKSHOP HOW THE PAST CAN IMPROVE THE FUTURE: CREOLE LANGUAGES IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM March 31 - April 1, 2000 8:30a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Wolfe University Center (WUC)* Biscayne Bay Campus 3000 N.E. 151st Street North Miami, Florida _____________________________________________________________ *Complimentary parking is available. Handicapped individuals who require special accommodations must request assistance at least five working days in advance by calling (305) 348-2894/T.D.D. via F.R.S. at 1(800) 955-8771 FIFTH BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CREOLE LANGUAGE WORKSHOP Florida International University, Biscayne Bay Campus, Wolfe University Center (WUC) Ballroom, 2nd Floor Thursday, March 30, 2000 _____________________________________________________________ 8:15 - 9:00 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast, WUC Ballroom Lobby 9:00 - 9:10 Welcome Dr. Joyce Peterson, Associated Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Biscayne Bay Campus 9:10 - 9:20 . Remarks Dr. Carole Boyce-Davis, Director, African-New World Studies Program 9:20 - 9:30 . Overview of Creole Language Workshop Dr. Tometro Hopkins, Coordinator, Creole Language Workshop Moderator: Michelle Vincent Dade County Public Schools 9:30 - 10: 15 Taking stock and moving on Dr. Pauline Christie University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 10:15 - 11:00 Speak pidgin, think pidgin, write pidgin? Don't talk pidgin, don't eat tofu? Dr. Suzanne Romaine Oxford University , United Kingdom 11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 - 12:00 p.m. Educating Creole Children for the Future Using Creole Based Trilingual Education: A Project Description from San Andres, Providence, and Santa Catalina Dr. Ron Morren Summer Institute of Linguistics, International 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (Loggia) Moderator: Dr. Ronald Kephart University of North Florida 2:00 - 2:45 Signs of the Times Dr. Ian Robertson University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad 2:45 - 3:30 From Acquisition to Learning: Insights on Bi-varietal Language Acquisition with Potential for Classroom Use Dr. Valerie Youssef The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad 3:30 - 3:45 Refreshments 3:45 - 4:30 Lectal Shifting and Orthographical Representation in Creative Writing: "Sonny Jim of Sandy Point" University of Virgin Islands, St. Thomas 4:30 - 5:00 Discussion Friday, March 31, 2000 _____________________________________________________________ 8:15 - 9:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast, WUC Ballroom Lobby Moderator: Caroline Bernard Stokes Florida International University 9:00 - 9:15 Remarks 9:15 - 10:00 Cameroon Pidgin English in the New Millennium Dr. Augustin Simo-Bobda University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign/Yaounde University, Cameoon, West Africa 10:00 - 10:45 Process Reading in a predominantly Creole Situation: Implications for the Language Teacher Florence Fortibui Dallas, Texas/Cameroon West Africa 10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:45 A Modified Process Approach to the Teaching of Writing in a Creole-Using Community: Implications for the Language Teacher Gregory N. Ndikaka Cameroon, West Africa 11:45 - 12:00 p.m. Discussion 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch Moderator: Dr. Jean Robert Cadely Florida International University 2:00 - 2:45 Language for education and standardization as factors in language attitude ratings: Survey findings on Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin from urban, southern Nigeria Prof. Charles Mann University of Surrey, United Kingdom 2:45 - 3:30 The Use of Belize Kriol to Improve English Proficiency Dr. Ken Decker Summer Institute of Linguistics, International 3:30 - 3:45 Refreshments 3:45 - 4:40 KEYNOTE ADDRESS >From past imperfect to future perfect: creole studies and the (mis-)education of the creole speaker Dr. Michel DeGraff Massachusetts Institute of Technology Introduction of Speaker: Dr. Yves Dejean 4:40 - 5:00 Discussion Saturday, April 1, 2000 _____________________________________________________________ Moderator: Dr. Arlene Clachar University of Miami 9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Remarks Jan Mapou Libreri Mapou & Sosyete Koukouy Miyami 9:15 - 10:00 How a Dying Language Can Serve the Future: The Changing Role of Creole in Louisiana Dr. Tom Klinger Tulane University 10:00 - 10:45 French Creole Orthography - A Problem for Caribbean Multilingual Lexicography Dr. Jeannette Allsopp University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados 10:45 - 11:30 The 'basilect', the 'mesolect', the 'acrolect' in Haitian Creole Dr. Yves Dejean Haiti 11:30 - 11:45 Coffee break 11:45 - 12:30 p.m. Creole language instruction in Haiti Rachelle Doucet New York University 12:30 - 1:15 Is there a need for monolingual Haitian Creole dictionaries? Dr. Hugues St. Fort New York Board of Education & Kingsborough Community College 1:15 - 2:00 One small step for language technologies, one big step for implementing Creole language technologies into real-user environments Marilyn Mason Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd. 2:00 - 3:30 Lunch ******* Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd P.O. Box 181015 Boston, MA 02118 USA (617) 247-8885 (office & answering machine) (617) 262-8923 (FAX) MIT2USAMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue