Only about seven percent of Haitians are truly French/Creole bilingual, making French a foreign medium of instruction for most students¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2023: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The article reports, citing Gibson (2011), that only seven percent of Haitians are truly French/Creole bilingual, although Haiti has two official languages. → Behrmann 2018

Evidence¶

Behrmann 2018¶

Behrmann, T. (2018). Evaluating the effects of mother tongue on math and science instruction. Monument, CO, USA: ISTES Organization. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED603513

q2 · i? · causal · r2

A quoted statistic in the statement of the problem, attributed to Gibson (2011), establishing that French-medium instruction reaches a small bilingual minority. The article prints no effect size; this is a descriptive population figure.

""While Haiti is consider ed a bilingual country with French and Creole being the two official languages, researchers have found that only seven percent of Haitians are truly French/Creole bilingual" (Gibson, 2011, p. 19)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Only a small minority of Haitians are truly French/Creole bilingual, making French effectively a foreign language for most students — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Haitian national exam pass rates were extremely low in 2003, which the article links to the language of instruction — related