Language Education in the Caribbean

Professor Zellynne Jennings is a former Director of the School of Education and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. She holds a Master of Arts in Classics (Univ. Leeds) ,a Masters in Education (Curriculum Development/ Educational Philosophy)(Univ. Birmingham) and a PhD in education (UWI). She has over 50 publications in peer reviewed academic journals and has written over 40 evaluation and policy reports from consultancies undertaken with Ministries of Education in the Caribbean as well as for International Organisations. She is a member of the Council of the United Nations University. An educator of many years' experience, Jeannette Allsopp is now the retired Senior Research Fellow in Lexicography, former Director of the Centre for Caribbean Lexicography, and Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus in Barbados. She holds a BA Honours degree in Spanish with French, an MA in Romance Languages and a Diploma in Education from London University, as well as a PhD in Linguistics from London Metropolitan University. She is also the recipient of the 1991 EURALEX (European Association for Lexicography) Verbatim Award in Lexicography, as well as a Fulbright Research Fellow. President of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics (2010-2012), she is now its Immediate Past President. She is also the Consultant in Caribbean English to the Third Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary . With about 60 publications to her credit, including the French-Spanish Supplement to the Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage by Richard Allsopp and the first Caribbean Multilingual Dictionary of Flora, Fauna and Foods (2003), her research interests include Caribbean lexicography, Creole linguistics, language acquisition, language teaching methodology, and Caribbean literature in English, French and Spanish. Her latest publication is Language, Culture and Caribbean Identity , UWIP and CCL (2012) which she edited with Professor John R. Rickford of Stanford University.