Languages in Africa : multilingualism, language policy, and education /
Languages in Africa : multilingualism, language policy, and education /
edited by Elizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, and Ruth Kramer.
- Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (xii, 207 pages) : illustrations.
- Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series .
"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.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Layers of language -- -- some bad news and some good news on multilingualism, language policy, and education in Africa / Early reading success in Africa -- -- the language factor / Classroom discourse in bilingual and multilingual Kenyan primary schools / Investigating teacher effects in mother-tongue-based multilingual education programs / A complementary education program in Ghana / Request strategies as used by Tunisian EFL learners / Language contact and language attitudes in two Dagara-speaking border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana / Language and education policy in Botswana -- -- the case of Sebirwa / Ethnic language shift in Nao / The role of language and culture for ethnic identity maintenance : the case of the Gujarati community in South Africa / "The palm oil with which words are eaten" -- -- proverbs from endangered Cameroonian indigenous languages / The linguistic "glocal" in urban popular music in Nigeria / Language use in advertisements as a reflection of speakers' language habits / The persuasive nature of metaphors in Kenya's political discourse / African languages in the media -- -- visualizations of pathologized polyglossia / Elizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, and Ruth Kramer -- Barbara Trudell and Carolyn Temple Adger -- Lydiah Kananu Kiramba -- Stephen L. Walter -- Kingsley Arkorful -- Imen Aribi -- Richard Beyogle -- One Tlale Boyer and Elizabeth C. Zsiga -- Samson Seid -- Sheena Shah -- Eyvoi Njwe -- Tolulope Odebunmi -- Leonard Muaka -- Leonard Muaka -- Anjali Pandey.
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.
9781626161535
Multilingualism--Africa--Congresses.
Native language and education--Africa--Congresses.
Language policy--Africa--Congresses.
African languages--Social aspects--Congresses.
African languages.
Language policy.
Multilingualism.
Native language and education.
Electronic Books.
P115 / .L364 2014
"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.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Layers of language -- -- some bad news and some good news on multilingualism, language policy, and education in Africa / Early reading success in Africa -- -- the language factor / Classroom discourse in bilingual and multilingual Kenyan primary schools / Investigating teacher effects in mother-tongue-based multilingual education programs / A complementary education program in Ghana / Request strategies as used by Tunisian EFL learners / Language contact and language attitudes in two Dagara-speaking border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana / Language and education policy in Botswana -- -- the case of Sebirwa / Ethnic language shift in Nao / The role of language and culture for ethnic identity maintenance : the case of the Gujarati community in South Africa / "The palm oil with which words are eaten" -- -- proverbs from endangered Cameroonian indigenous languages / The linguistic "glocal" in urban popular music in Nigeria / Language use in advertisements as a reflection of speakers' language habits / The persuasive nature of metaphors in Kenya's political discourse / African languages in the media -- -- visualizations of pathologized polyglossia / Elizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, and Ruth Kramer -- Barbara Trudell and Carolyn Temple Adger -- Lydiah Kananu Kiramba -- Stephen L. Walter -- Kingsley Arkorful -- Imen Aribi -- Richard Beyogle -- One Tlale Boyer and Elizabeth C. Zsiga -- Samson Seid -- Sheena Shah -- Eyvoi Njwe -- Tolulope Odebunmi -- Leonard Muaka -- Leonard Muaka -- Anjali Pandey.
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.
9781626161535
Multilingualism--Africa--Congresses.
Native language and education--Africa--Congresses.
Language policy--Africa--Congresses.
African languages--Social aspects--Congresses.
African languages.
Language policy.
Multilingualism.
Native language and education.
Electronic Books.
P115 / .L364 2014