{"id":2516,"date":"2015-04-02T00:06:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T00:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2015-04-17T00:50:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T00:50:28","slug":"dr-fiona-willans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/dr-fiona-willans\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlene J. Sato Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Fiona Willans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Hem i Broken English nomo:<\/em><br \/>\nInterrupting the same old story about pidgins and creoles in school<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Fiona Willans<br \/>\nUniversity of the South Pacific<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span data-term=\"goog_1460593399\">Thursday, April 9<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span data-term=\"goog_1460593400\">12-1:15 pm<br \/>\n<\/span>St. John 11<\/p>\n<p>Pidgins and creoles have a long tradition of stigmatisation within formal education. Very little has changed in this regard, despite several decades of sociolinguistic research demonstrating that there is no linguistic justification for keeping these languages out of the classroom. This presentation uses recent data about Bislama (an English-based expanded pidgin), collected at two schools in Vanuatu, to demonstrate that attitudes towards this language remain incredibly negative in the domain of formal education, despite its high status outside school, and despite its prominent place in teachers\u2019 and students\u2019 linguistic repertoires. It will be suggested that these negative arguments can be countered in a number of ways, but that it is difficult to open up sufficient space to disrupt the status quo without rethinking some of our fundamental assumptions about the nature of language and languages. The presentation will consider whether it is possible to shift our thinking from deficit to difference to repertoire, as a way of validating Bislama as part of a complex teaching and learning repertoire.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dr. Fiona Willans is a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of the South Pacific (Laucala Campus, Fiji). Her research interests include colonial legacies within language ideologies and language-in-education policies; the potential for bottom-up and \u2018sideways\u2019 approaches to medium of instruction issues throughout the Pacific; the status, use and development of pidgins and creoles; and the use of ethnography to understand \u2018policy\u2019 from as many perspectives as possible.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This talk is made possible by grants from the Diversity and Equity Initiative and SAPFB. For more information, contact Christina Higgins at cmhiggin@hawaii.edu<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Additional Event with Dr. Willans:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span data-term=\"goog_1460593403\">Wednesday, April 8<\/span><\/strong><span data-term=\"goog_1460593403\">, <\/span>5:00\u20136:30 PM<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">College of Education Collaboration Center (CCC), Wist Hall<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>The Multilingual Turn: What Use Is It To Educators?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This presentation explores what materials developers, teachers and teacher trainers are meant to do with notions such as \u2018flexible multilingualism\u2019 and \u2018complex repertoires of resources.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Hem i Broken English nomo:<\/em><br \/>\nInterrupting the same old story about pidgins and creoles in school<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Fiona Willans<br \/>\nUniversity of the South Pacific<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span data-term=\"goog_1460593399\">Thursday, April 9<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span data-term=\"goog_1460593400\">12-1:15 pm<br \/>\n<\/span>St. John 11<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/dr-fiona-willans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Charlene J. 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