[lg policy] The Charter on Language Policy and Language Rights in the Creole-speaking Caribbean: Implications for Language Education in Guyana

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The Charter on Language Policy and Language Rights in the
Creole-speaking Caribbean
Implications for Language Education in Guyana

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November 3, 2011
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By Charlene Wilkinson &
Kencil Banwarie

University of Guyana
Department of Language & Cultural Studies Faculty of Education &
the Humanities

In January of this year, a landmark conference in Jamaica concluded
with the presentation to members of the public of the final draft of
The Charter on Language Policy and Language Rights in the Creole
Speaking Caribbean.   Participants at this conference — linguists,
educators and policy makers — from fifteen Caribbean States, the
United States, the United Kingdom and France met to finalize this
document which had its inception in the work of Caribbean linguists
begun more than five decades earlier. Current Vice Chancellor of the
University of Guyana, Lawrence Carrington, world-renowned linguist,
was a keynote speaker at the conference. Two Guyanese lecturers from
the University of Guyana, Kencil Banwarie and Charlene Wilkinson were
also participants and proud signatories to the Charter along with the
other participants. They returned home to introduce it to their peers
in the Faculty of Education and the Humanities with the expectation
that the University would appreciate the strategic advantage of this
historic document and recognise its leadership role in the
re-visioning of Guyana’s language policy.

The Charter is built on the foundations of previously established
Human Rights treaties: The Charter of the United Nations—The Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (1948); the International Covenant
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The Charter on Language Policy and Language Rights in the
Creole-speaking Caribbean - Stabroek News - Guyana

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