TY - BOOK ID - 77936083 TI - Creoles in education AU - Migge, Bettina AU - Léglise, Isabelle AU - Bartens, Angela PY - 2010 SN - 1282558501 9786612558504 9027288208 9789027288202 9789027252586 9027252580 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. DB - UniCat KW - Creoles KW - Native language and education. KW - Creole dialects. KW - Creole languages KW - Creolized languages KW - Languages, Mixed KW - Pidgin languages KW - Native language KW - Education KW - Language and education KW - Racially mixed people KW - Evaluation. KW - Use in schools UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77936083 AB - On the Colombian-owned Caribbean Islands of San Andres, Providence, & Santa Catalina an English-lexifier Creole is spoken. Recently, Creole-speaking leaders and parents have become apprehensive that Island children and youth are increasingly using Spanish with a concomitant loss of Standard English. Accompanying that concern is the perception that local Creole values, cultural mores, and the Creole language itself, are eroding. Not wanting to lose their Creole identity, an experimental primary school trilingual education project was initiated that begins schooling in Creole, proceeds to Standard English, and then to Spanish. The goal is age appropriate language proficiency in the three languages. The purpose of the following article is to describe this trilingual education project - its initiation, materials development, implementation, and evaluation. Keywords: Trilingual Education; Bilingual Education; San Andres Island; Creole Language Education; Mother Tongue Education. ER -