Report on the Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage: School Edition

Abstract

This report on the Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage: School Edition outlines the reasoning behind the creation of a simplified form of a complex dictionary for easy and effective use by the school population of the Caribbean, English and non-English speaking, as both a teaching and a learning tool to promote regional linguistic and cultural awareness. It is fully illustrated in order to enable students' acquisition of Caribbean English vocabulary items in association with their realworld referents while also providing a chronicle of the culture and lifestyles of the Caribbean region.