The materials - Pidgin grammar quizzes, critical reading exercises and the like - are meant to be used by Hawaii teachers who want to teach the language in their middle and high school classrooms. ![]() So begins the preface to a packet of Pidgin education materials put together by a linguistics professor and other University of Hawaii at Manoa faculty. “Wedda yo one native Pidgin speaka or one curious teacha of Pidgin speakaz, dis teacha’z guide, da website an all da adda stuff dat goes with it was put tugedda fo you.” Read Part 2: Can or No Can? Pidgin Speakers in the Workforce. Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series about whether there’s a place for Pidgin in Hawaii schools.
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