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    The document discusses whether Jamaican Creole should be afforded official language status in Jamaica. It presents three main claims in support of this. First, making Creole official would break the stigma that it is only spoken by the lower classes. Second, it would reduce communication barriers between officials and civilians. Third, students would perform better in school if taught in their native Creole language. The document also addresses two counterarguments - that Creole is not a fully developed language, and that its dialects vary too much. However, it provides evidence that Creole does have an established linguistic structure. Overall, the document argues that recognizing Creole officially would validate it as a language and benefit society in several ways.

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    The document discusses whether Jamaican Creole should be afforded official language status in Jamaica. It presents three main claims in support of this. First, making Creole official would break the stigma that it is only spoken by the lower classes. Second, it would reduce communication barriers between officials and civilians. Third, students would perform better in school if taught in their native Creole language. The document also addresses two counterarguments - that Creole is not a fully developed language, and that its dialects vary too much. However, it provides evidence that Creole does have an established linguistic structure. Overall, the document argues that recognizing Creole officially would validate it as a language and benefit society in several ways.

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    The document discusses whether Jamaican Creole should be afforded official language status in Jamaica. It presents three main claims in support of this. First, making Creole official would break the stigma that it is only spoken by the lower classes. Second, it would reduce communication barriers between officials and civilians. Third, students would perform better in school if taught in their native Creole language. The document also addresses two counterarguments - that Creole is not a fully developed language, and that its dialects vary too much. However, it provides evidence that Creole does have an established linguistic structure. Overall, the document argues that recognizing Creole officially would validate it as a language and benefit society in several ways.

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    Classical Outline

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    The document discusses whether Jamaican Creole should be afforded official language status in Jamaica. It presents three main claims in support of this. First, making Creole official would break the stigma that it is only spoken by the lower classes. Second, it would reduce communication barriers between officials and civilians. Third, students would perform better in school if taught in their native Creole language. The document also addresses two counterarguments - that Creole is not a fully developed language, and that its dialects vary too much. However, it provides evidence that Creole does have an established linguistic structure. Overall, the document argues that recognizing Creole officially would validate it as a language and benefit society in several ways.

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    Topic: Should Jamaican Creole be afforded the official language status of the country?

    1. PARAGRAPH ONE/ INTRODUCTION

    Hook/ Attention Grabber: A quotation from the Honourable Louise Bennett - Coverley and

    give brief as to how she contributed to Jamaican Creole being recognized.

    Background information relevant to the topic:

    a) Petition being done to make the language official

    b) Discrimination as a result of the use of the language

    c) Miscommunication with persons outside of the region

    Connecting sentence: Despite the negative stigma that is attached to Jamaican Creole, the

    government have to understand that this is as a result of English being the official language of

    the country.

    Thesis statement: Government should afford Jamaican Creole the official language status of

    Jamaica because this would break the stigma that only persons of lower socioeconomic

    background speak Creole, break the barrier of communication between the public officers

    and civilians and as a result of Creole being the official language students will perform better

    in schools.

    1. Claim 1: Affording Jamaican Creole the official language status will break the stigma

    attached to lower socioeconomic people.

    a. When made official it gives the language validation and it shows that the

    dominant group respects the language as Miss Louise Bennett would’ve wanted.

    b. Reference to Ryan, B. E. & Giles, H. (1982) where the persons in power

    promoting the use of the language, this leads to the breaking of the stigma.
    2. Claim 2: with Jamaican Creole being the official language of the country this will break

    the barrier of communication between public officials and civilians.

    a. Define barriers to communication, effects of such.

    b. Dr. Celia Blake founded that while many Jamaicans speak English not many of

    them understand it and this has been an issue in the courts. Reference to article

    by Devonish (2019) speaks to marginalization of the civilians who speak

    Jamaican Creole and how it affects them.

    3. Claim 3: Making Jamaican Creole an official language would improve the performance

    of students in schools.

    a. Children perform extremely better in school if they are thought in the native

    language this has been seen in Curaçao.

    b. Reference to report from UNESCO done by Ball (2014).

    2. Paragraph of Refutation

    a. Counterargument 1: Arguably, some persons are of the belief that Jamaican creole is

    not a language.

    i. Reference to article by Lowe (2019) that Jamaican creole it isn’t a language

    because it doesn’t have a grammatical system and persons are unable to express

    themselves properly using Creole.

    b. Refutation/ Rebuttal:

    i. Reference to article by Cooper (2019) which states that Jamaican Creole is

    indeed a language and has a system it works with.

    ii. Reference to an article by Paul (2016) regarding the linguistics identity crisis.

    c. Counterargument 2: Some people may argue that there is too much dialects therefore

    there is no set standard.


    iii. Robertson & Simmons- McDonald (2014) has a book that states the issues that

    are affiliated with the language. One of these include the dialect variation.

    Paragraph of Conclusion: Government making Jamaican Creole an official language will

    break the stigma attach lower socioeconomic people that they are the only speakers of the

    language, it will break the barrier of communication between public officers and civilians and

    lastly allow our students to perform better in school. Once the dominant group makes the

    language official this shows validation to the language as such all classes would respect the

    language.

    Recommendation: Government should afford Jamaican creole the official language status of

    Jamaica alongside Standard English.


    References

    Ball, J. (2014, 02 21). Children learn better in their mother tongue. Global

    partnership for education. Retrieved from: https://www.globalpartnership.org/blog/children-

    learn-better-their-mother-tongue

    Cooper, C. (2019,10 27). Two languages are better than one. The Jamaica Gleaner,

    commentary. Retrieved from:

    http://jamaicagleaner.com/article/commentary/20191027/carolyn-cooper-two-languages-are-

    better-one

    Devonish, H. 2017. Jamaica’s nation language. D+C Development and Cooperation.

    Retrieved from: https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/how-jamaican-creole-became-main-

    language-artistic-expression

    Jamaican Language Unit. (2019,11 11). ‘Just dweet’ – Jamaican Language Unit

    launches patios petition. The Jamaica Gleaner, news. Retrieved from: http://jamaica-

    gleaner.com/article/news/20191111/just-dweet-jamaican-language-unit-launches-patois-

    petition

    Lowe, E (2019, 12 20). Can God speak Patios? The Jamaica Gleaner, commentary.

    Retrieved from: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20191220/ethon-lowe-can-

    god-speak-patois

    Paul, A. (2016, 06 22). Jamaica’s Linguistics Identity Crisis. The Jamaica Gleaner,

    commentary. Retrieved from: http://jamaica-

    gleaner.com/article/commentary/20160622/annie-paul-jamaicas-linguistic-identity-crisis

    Ryan, B. E. & Giles, H (Eds) (1982) Attitudes towards language variation: Social and

    applied contexts. E. Arnold.


    Robertson, I. & Simmons – McDonald, H. (Eds) (2014) Education issues in Creole

    and Creole- influenced vernacular contexts. The University of the West Indies Press

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