 The National Language Policy is a document which looks at the role of quail in education specifically at the primary and secondary levels, ensuring that students at those levels are competent in reading, writing, and speaking the quail language, much in the same way they do standard English. The Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology, and Vocational Training recently held a National Language Policy Implementation Planning Conference for the curriculum and materials development unit, CAMDU. The online forum, which brought together professionals from across the Caribbean region, sought to get an idea of best practices and the considerations for putting an implementation plan together to ensure that quail gets the recognition it deserves. Curriculum Officer for English Language with CAMDU, Angel Caglin, says the deliberations coming out of the recently held conference will help formulate that strategy, including a distinction made between a National Language Policy and an Education Language Policy. Some other interesting points were the presentation of actual language instruction methodology and approaches being used by our Martinican counterparts, both at the primary and secondary level. One of the major or the most outstanding aspects was the level of support available to teachers in terms of coaches and even inspectors ensuring that the language has been taught as it should. The Language Curriculum Specialist says the plan is to have the completed strategy for implementation of the policy early in the new year, along with the already completed draft policy document. She says the overall aim is to improve student literacy development full circle, affording the quail language the same official status as the standard English dialect. Literacy development should always begin with students' first language, the native languages, the home languages. And understanding the influence that quail has had on students' development of other languages, it is important that this language, not just for linguistic purposes but also for cultural purposes, be preserved and that the literacy in this language be developed. Officials are expecting that students' literacy levels will improve since they will be able to transfer the skills developed in their home language to other languages that they will learn. It also means that we must have teacher professional development and teacher certification and training so that they can bring across or use the appropriate methodologies and present the language in a way that students will be able to understand all of their content area subjects. Further field, it means the development of resources, it means the development of content that can be used in the classroom and of course we can just imagine the impact that this is going to have outside of the classroom as well. Ms. Caglin says it is also expected that a lot of commercial opportunities will be created from the preparation of materials to be used for quail instruction within the classroom. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training, I am Chris Satney reporting.