27379: Berggren: (reply) Haitian Creole Conversational Patterns

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: MEBerggren@aol.com

I thoroughly enjoyed the article  by Dr. Dejean  regarding 15 questions on
Haitian Creole.  I am a  student in College of Education at Florida Atlantic
University.  I am doing  a research project on Discourse and Cross-Cultural
Conversational Patterns of  the Haitian Creole Language.  If you have any
information that you could  share with me, I would greatly appreciate it.  I
especially
would like to  address any concerns or issues that future (or current)
teachers should be made  aware of when assisting ELL students whose first
language
is Creole.

The information that I need would address turn-taking, topic  selection,
conversational repair (when misunderstandings occur), and  appropriateness of
conversations as well as rhetorical patterns.  This is  for a TESOL class where
we
will discuss the fact that children might be very  educated and still not
construct a story in the same manner as a teacher might  expect.

I thank you in advance for your time,
Carol Berggren