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Michel Frederic DeGraff is a Haitian creolist who has served on the board of the Journal of Haitian Studies. He is a tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a founding member of the Haitian Creole Academy. His field of scholarship is Creole language, also known as Lang Kreyòl Linguistics. He is known for his advocacy towards the recognition of Haitian Creole as a full-fledged language. In the fall of 2012, he received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to introduce online Creole language materials in the teaching of STEM in Haiti. He believes that Haitian children should be taught in their native language at all levels of instruction, contrary to the tradition of teaching them in French. Degraff believes that instruction in French, a foreign

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rdfs:label	Michel DeGraff (fr) Michel DeGraff (en)
rdfs:comment	Michel DeGraff est un créoliste haïtien, membre du conseil d'administration du Journal of Haitian Studies. Il est professeur à Massachusetts Institute of Technology, directeur de l'initiative MIT-Haiti et membre fondateur de l'Académie du Créole Haïtien. Il est spécialiste en linguistique des langues créoles et est connu pour son plaidoyer en faveur de la reconnaissance du créole haïtien en tant que langue à part entière. (fr) Michel Frederic DeGraff is a Haitian creolist who has served on the board of the Journal of Haitian Studies. He is a tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a founding member of the Haitian Creole Academy. His field of scholarship is Creole language, also known as Lang Kreyòl Linguistics. He is known for his advocacy towards the recognition of Haitian Creole as a full-fledged language. In the fall of 2012, he received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to introduce online Creole language materials in the teaching of STEM in Haiti. He believes that Haitian children should be taught in their native language at all levels of instruction, contrary to the tradition of teaching them in French. Degraff believes that instruction in French, a foreign (en)
foaf:name	Michel Degraff (en)
foaf:homepage	http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/degraff/index.html
name	Michel Degraff (en)
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birth place	Haiti
birth place	Haiti
dcterms:subject	Linguists from Haiti 1963 births Living people Haitian academics City College of New York alumni MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty University of Pennsylvania alumni Computational linguistics Linguists of pidgins and creoles
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thesis title	Creole grammars and acquisition of syntax: The case of Haitian (en)
thesis url	http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9308555
workplaces	M.I.T.
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alma mater	University of Pennsylvania
awards	National Science Foundation $1 Million Grant to promote teaching of Science in Haiti in Haitian Creole (en)
birth date	1963 (xsd:integer)
caption	Degraff at M.I.T. (en)
fields	Linguistics Syntax Morphology Language Change Creole Studies Haitian Creole, Education in Haiti Linguistics-Ideology Interface (en)
known for	(en) Advocacy for the language of instruction in Haiti to be Haitian Creole (en) Arguing that Haitian Creole is a full-fledged language (en)
website	http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/degraff/index.html
has abstract	Michel Frederic DeGraff is a Haitian creolist who has served on the board of the Journal of Haitian Studies. He is a tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a founding member of the Haitian Creole Academy. His field of scholarship is Creole language, also known as Lang Kreyòl Linguistics. He is known for his advocacy towards the recognition of Haitian Creole as a full-fledged language. In the fall of 2012, he received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to introduce online Creole language materials in the teaching of STEM in Haiti. He believes that Haitian children should be taught in their native language at all levels of instruction, contrary to the tradition of teaching them in French. Degraff believes that instruction in French, a foreign language for most Haitian children, hinders their creativity and their ability to excel. (en) Michel DeGraff est un créoliste haïtien, membre du conseil d'administration du Journal of Haitian Studies. Il est professeur à Massachusetts Institute of Technology, directeur de l'initiative MIT-Haiti et membre fondateur de l'Académie du Créole Haïtien. Il est spécialiste en linguistique des langues créoles et est connu pour son plaidoyer en faveur de la reconnaissance du créole haïtien en tant que langue à part entière. (fr)
institution	M.I.T.
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