Benjamin Hebblethwaite
List of John Benjamins publications in which Benjamin Hebblethwaite is involved.
Articles
2015 Corrections on the History and Design of Haitian Creole Scrabble Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 30:2, pp. 344–347 | Article
2012 French and underdevelopment, Haitian Creole and development: Educational language policy problems and solutions in Haiti Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:2, pp. 255–302 | Article
This article argues that Haiti’s French-dominant school system is an impediment to the nation’s development, whereas Haitian Creole-dominant education will lay the foundation for long-term development. In that Caribbean country, 95% of the population is monolingual in Haitian Creole while the… read more
2009 Scrabble as a tool for Haitian Creole literacy: Sociolinguistic and orthographic foundations Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24:2, pp. 275–305 | Article
This paper argues that Scrabble can be used as a tool to help maintain and grow all levels of Haitian Creole literacy and it provides the technical details for developing the game. The rules of the English version are given to introduce the game’s basic structure. Haiti’s educational,… read more