Presenters
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Dr. Marta Dijkhoff
Marta Dijkhoff completed her PhD on the morphology of Papiamento at the University of Leiden in Holland. In the period when she was writing her thesis she was employed as a linguist to the Instituto Linguistiko Antiyano. This was the body charged in Curaçao during the 1980s with the responsibility for standardizing and promoting Papiamento in Curaçao and Bonaire during the decade of the 1990s. She became a Minister of Education of the Netherlands Antilles. During her relatively short stay in office, she introduced far-reaching reforms in education. These were used on the principle of Mother Tongue education and the requirement in Curaçao that the medium of instruction for education at all levels should be Papiamento. The effects of these reforms and her subsequent language activism are felt in Curaçao up to the present day.
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Professor Ian Robertson
Professor Ian Robertson is a stalwart of Caribbean linguistics, best known for his discovery during the 1970’s, of two Dutch-lexicon Creoles, Essequibo/ Skepi Dutch Creole and Berbice Dutch Creole in Guyana, his native country. The second of these was the subject of his PhD dissertation at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. One of his passions is Field Linguistics while the other, because of his background as an English Language teacher, is with the issues of English language teaching in the context of the Creole speaking Caribbean. This is reflected in his long and ongoing association with the Caribbean Examination Council. He has developed and taught courses in Educational Linguistics and functioned as a consultant on Language Education Policy to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Her Excellency Dame Pearlette Louisy Governer-General of Saint LuciaDame Pearlette Louisy‘s entire professional life has been spent in the field of education. She holds a Bachelors’ Degree in English and French from the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies in Barbados. In 1972 she was awarded a Masters Degree in Linguistics, in the field of Didactics, at the University of Laval in Quebec City, Canada. In 1991, she took up studies at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom where she read for a PhD in Education. Her doctoral studies focused on the management and provision of tertiary education in small nation states. Dame Pearlette has a passion for her native language, St. Lucian French Lexicon Creole, Kweyol, and became an advocate for the standardization and promotion of the language in the 1980’s through the Mouvman Kweyol Sent Lisi (Mokweyol). Dame Pearlette is the Governor General of St. Lucia.
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Professor Dr. Lawrence D. Carrington
Lawrence Deighton DeLacy Carrington is currently the Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana. A national of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) he holds a doctorate in French from the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus. Professor Carrington has had a distinguished career as a university professor, researcher and administrator. His teaching and research have made him an internationally recognized specialist in Creole linguistics, language education and language planning for Creole societies and in educational issues affecting their development. He was Professor Emeritus of Creole Linguistics at The University of the West Indies, and a pioneer in the study and documentation of St. Lucian French Creole. In addition he has held the post of Secretary and of President of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics (SCL) during its formative stages.
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