TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zsiga,Elizabeth C.
AU  - Tlale Boyer,One
AU  - Kramer,Ruth
AU  - 
TI  - Languages in Africa: multilingualism, language policy, and education 
T2  - Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series
SN  - 9781626161535
AV  - P115 .L364 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Georgetown University Press
KW  - Multilingualism
KW  - Africa
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Native language and education
KW  - Language policy
KW  - African languages
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - "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; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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