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1 online resource (xii, 207 pages) : illustrations |
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Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series |
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Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series (2004)
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| Contents |
Layers of language : some bad news and some good news on multilingualism, language policy, and education in Africa / Elizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, and Ruth Kramer -- Early reading success in Africa : the language factor / Barbara Trudell and Carolyn Temple Adger -- Classroom discourse in bilingual and multilingual Kenyan primary schools / Lydiah Kananu Kiramba -- Investigating teacher effects in mother-tongue-based multilingual education programs / Stephen L. Walter -- A complementary education program in Ghana / Kingsley Arkorful -- Request strategies as used by Tunisian EFL learners / Imen Aribi -- Language contact and language attitudes in two Dagara-speaking border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana / Richard Beyogle -- Language and education policy in Botswana : the case of Sebirwa / One Tlale Boyer and Elizabeth C. Zsiga -- Ethnic language shift in Nao / Samson Seid -- The role of language and culture for ethnic identity maintenance : the case of the Gujarati community in South Africa / Sheena Shah -- "The palm oil with which words are eaten" : proverbs from endangered Cameroonian Indigenous languages / Eyvoi Njwe -- The linguistic "glocal" in urban popular music in Nigeria / Tolulope Odebunmi -- Language use in advertisements as a reflection of speakers' language habits / Leonard Muaka -- The persuasive nature of metaphors in Kenya's political discourse / Leonard Muaka -- African languages in the media : visualizations of pathologized polyglossia / Anjali Pandey |
| Summary |
People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national Indigenous language-written, widespread, sometimes used in school-surrounds it. An international language like French or English, a vestige of colonialism, carries prestige, is used in higher education, and promises mobility-and yet it will not be well known by its users. The essays in Languages in Africa explore the layers of African multilingualism as they affect lang |
| Notes |
"Contributors to this volume came together to discuss the problems and promise of African multilingualism at a joint meeting of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics and the Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics in Washington, D.C., in March 2013. As part of that joint conference, a workshop on language and education in Africa was organized by Carolyn Adger of the Center for Applied Linguistics. That workshop became the inspiration for this volume"--Introduction |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Multilingualism -- Africa -- Congresses
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Native language and education -- Africa -- Congresses
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Language policy -- Africa -- Congresses
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African languages -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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African languages -- Social aspects
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Language policy
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Multilingualism
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Native language and education
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Flerspråkighet.
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Modersmålsundervisning.
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Språkpolitik.
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Afrikanska språk.
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Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zsiga, Elizabeth C., editor.
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Tlale Boyer, One, editor.
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Kramer, Ruth (Ruth T.), editor.
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| ISBN |
9781626161535 |
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1626161534 |
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