Language Ideologies And Challenges Of Multilingual Education In Ethiopia

Author : Moges Yigezu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789994455478

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Language Ideologies and Challenges of Multilingual Education in Ethiopia by Moges Yigezu Pdf

During the last decade and a half, The use of local languages for official purposes, particularly in primary education, has become a pronounced characteristic of Ethiopian education system. The fact that as many as 22 languages have been introduced into the school system since mid 1990s represents a major ideological shift from the previous policies the country had adopted over the course of several centuries. The Ethiopian educational language policy is radical in its scope and unique in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere, and it invites a close examination of its ideological foundation and, even more so, its implementation model. The primary objective of this study was to make a critical appraisal of the implementation of vernacular education in the Harari region and examine the challenges of providing primary education in several Ethiopian and international languages, i.e. English, Amharic, Oromo, Arabic and Harari. The study made a comparative assessment of the use of languages as media of instruction for primary education, and concluded with an appraisal of the relative strengths and weaknesses in the use of each language, from both pedagogical and social perspectives.

Author : Carol Benson,Kimmo Kosonen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004449671

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Language Issues in Comparative Education II by Carol Benson,Kimmo Kosonen Pdf

This second volume of Language Issues in Comparative Education, following the tradition of the first, introduces the state of the field and calls attention to innovations described throughout. The chapters examine language-in-education policy change, describe implementational activities, and present strategic frameworks for research and advocacy.

Author : John Macalister,Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317214281

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Family Language Policies in a Multilingual World by John Macalister,Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi Pdf

Through case studies from around the world, this book illustrates the opportunities and challenges facing families negotiating the issues of language maintenance and language learning in the home. Every family living in a bi/multilingual environment faces the question of what language(s) to speak with their children and must make a decision, consciously or otherwise, about these issues. Exploring links between language policy in the home and wider society in a range of diverse settings, the contributors utilize various research tools, including interviews, questionnaires, observations, and archival document analysis, to explore linguistic ideologies and practices of family members in the home, illuminating how these are shaped by macro-level societal processes.

Author : Tove Skutnabb-Kangas,Kathleen Heugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136718281

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Multilingual Education and Sustainable Diversity Work by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas,Kathleen Heugh Pdf

This book documents current research showing how, in countries where educational practices are inclusive of linguistic diversity and responsive to local conditions, implementation of bi/multiilingual education in both system-wide and minority settings can be successful.

Author : Kassahun Weldemariam,Margareth Sandvik,Moges Yigezu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000985931

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Early Childhood Language Education and Literacy Practices in Ethiopia by Kassahun Weldemariam,Margareth Sandvik,Moges Yigezu Pdf

This edited volume explores how indigenous knowledges and practices can be instrumental in improving literacy outcomes and teacher development practices in Ethiopia, aiding children’s long-term reading, and learning outcomes. The chapters present research from a collaborative project between Ethiopia and Norway and demonstrate how students can be supported to think pragmatically, learn critically and be in possession of the citizenship skills necessary to thrive in a multilingual world. The authors celebrate multilingualism and bring indigenous traditions such as oracy, storytelling, folktales to the fore revealing their positive impact on educational attainment. Addressing issues of language diversity and systematic ignorance of indigenous literacy practices, the book plays a necessary role in introducing Ethiopia’s cultural heritage to the West and, hence, bridges the cultural gaps between the global north and global south. Arguably contributing one of the first publications on early literacy in Ethiopian languages, this book will appeal to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students studying the fields of early years literacy and language, indigenous knowledge and applied linguistics more broadly.

Author : Colin Reilly,Feliciano Chimbutane,John Clegg,Casmir Rubagumya,Elizabeth J. Erling
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000998085

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Multilingual Learning by Colin Reilly,Feliciano Chimbutane,John Clegg,Casmir Rubagumya,Elizabeth J. Erling Pdf

This edited volume provides the follow up to Erling et al.’s (2021) Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa. The strategies put forward in Volume 1 included multilingual pedagogies that allow students to draw on their full linguistic repertoires, translanguaging and other language supportive pedagogies. While there is great traction in the pedagogical strategies proposed in Volume 1, limited progress has been made in terms of multilingual education in SSA. Thus, the main focus of this follow-up volume is to explore the question of why former colonial languages and monolingual approaches continue to be used as the dominant languages of education, even when we have multilingual pedagogies and materials that could and do work and despite substantial evidence that learners have difficulties when taught in a language they do not understand. This book offers perspectives to answer this question through focusing on the internal and external pressures which impact the capacity for implementing multilingual strategies in educational contexts at regional, national, and community levels. Chapters provide insights into how to better understand and work within these contemporary constraints and challenge dominant monoglossic discourses which inhibit the implementation of multilingual education in SSA. The volume focuses on three main areas which have proven to be stumbling blocks to the effective implementation of multilingual education to date, namely: Assessment, Ideology and Policy. An insightful collection that will be of great interest to academics, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of language education, language-in-education policy and educational assessments in the wide range of multilingual contexts in Africa.

Author : Robert Blackwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781472587121

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Negotiating and Contesting Identities in Linguistic Landscapes by Robert Blackwood Pdf

This collection represents contemporary perspectives on important aspects of research into the language in the public space, known as the Linguistic Landscape (LL), with the focus on the negotiation and contestation of identities. From four continents, and examining vital issues across North America, Africa, Europe and Asia, scholars with notable experience in LL research are drawn together in this, the latest collection to be produced by core researchers in this field. Building on the growing published body of research into LL work, the fifteen data chapters test, challenge and advance this sub-field of sociolinguistics through their close examination of languages as they appear on the walls and in the public spaces of sites from South Korea to South Africa, from Italy to Israel, from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar. The geographic coverage is matched by the depth of engagement with developments in this burgeoning field of scholarship. As such, this volume is an up-to-date collection of research chapters, each of which addresses pertinent and important issues within their respective geographic spaces.

Author : Maryam Borjian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781315394619

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Language and Globalization by Maryam Borjian Pdf

Questions for Discussion -- Author Profile -- References -- Index

Author : Durk Gorter,Victoria Zenotz,Jasone Cenoz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400773172

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Minority Languages and Multilingual Education by Durk Gorter,Victoria Zenotz,Jasone Cenoz Pdf

​This book presents research on the situation minority language schoolchildren face when they need to learn languages of international communication, in particular English. The book takes minority languages as a starting point and it bridges local and global perspectives in the analysis of multilingual education contexts. It examines the interaction of minority languages and cultures, majority languages and lingua franca-s in a variety of settings across different regions and countries on all continents. Even though all chapters in this book involve minority languages, the issues discussed are relevant to any context in which more than language is used in education. The book reveals challenges and opportunities of multilingual education by discussing issues such as Northern and Southern concepts, language education policies, language diversity, interethnic understanding, multimodal language practices, power, conflict, identity and prestige, among many others. “This is the volume that finally accounts for multilingual education from a truly multilingual perspective by involving proposals and research from a variety of multilingual speech communities in the world. The (linguistically) rich Ethiopia and Mexico can teach the poor Europe and other Northern countries about multilingual education. CLIL promoters may learn from Finnish Sámi and Canadian Innu and Mi’gmaq indigenous communities as well as from Basque results. Speakers and teachers of minority and international languages will certainly be glad to hear the news. There is no need for a monolingual bias or tunnel vision in acquiring English in non-English speaking communities. This volume includes new challenging pedagogical perspectives while pointing to interesting conclusions for worldwide educational authorities”. Maria Pilar Safont Jordà, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain

Author : Ronny Meyer,Bedilu Wakjira,Zelealem Leyew
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1425 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191044250

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The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages by Ronny Meyer,Bedilu Wakjira,Zelealem Leyew Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring both their structures and features and their function and use in society. The first part of the volume provides background and general information relating to Ethiopian languages, including their demographic distribution and classification, language policy, scripts and writing, and language endangerment. Subsequent parts are dedicated to the four major language families in Ethiopia - Cushitic, Ethiosemitic, Nilo-Saharan, and Omotic - and contain studies of individual languages, with an initial introductory overview chapter in each part. Both major and less-documented languages are included, ranging from Amharic and Oromo to Zay, Gawwada, and Yemsa. The final part explores languages that are outside of those four families, namely Ethiopian Sign Language, Ethiopian English, and Arabic. With its international team of senior researchers and junior scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages will appeal to anyone interested in the languages of the region and in African linguistics more broadly.

Author : Mekonnen Alemu Gebre Yohannes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030639044

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Language Policy in Ethiopia by Mekonnen Alemu Gebre Yohannes Pdf

This book examines the interplay and tensions between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic language policy and processes in Tigray, a regional state of Ethiopia, in the period of pre- and post-1991. Viewing language use and language policy as dynamic social and ideological processes, the book presents Ethiopia as an example of language policy creation and implementation over time, in a highly volatile political context. The case of Ethiopia is unique in that different language policies and practices were put in place as the country’s leaders changed through political takeovers. Declared language policies were not always implemented, and those implemented were often protested. The book starts with an overview and review of language policy and planning, followed by a chapter on the history of such planning in Ethiopia. It then presents the methodology used for the study, and examines the appropriation of hegemonic LPP, patterns of resistance, schools and public sites as centers of resistance, and the emergence and development of specific patterns of language use in different regions of the country. The book ends with recommendations for future research, and draws the overall conclusion that since LPP is a dynamic and multilayered contextual process, official or de facto language policy is often undermined by overt or covert unofficial language policies, ideologies, mechanisms, and agents that result in different patterns of language use.

Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108417976

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A History of African Linguistics by H. Ekkehard Wolff Pdf

The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

Author : Yirgalem Alemu
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783346038265

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Language Policy of Education and National Identity in Ethiopia by Yirgalem Alemu Pdf

Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, , language: English, abstract: This work has attempted to give an overview of how the language policy of the different regimes in Ethiopia has contributed to the sense of national identity. Although language is not the only factor that consolidates or weakens national identity, it plays a significant role. It is with this mine that the book is written. Different language-related policies and documents of the imperial, military and EPRDF regimes were closely investigated. Sections and statements in the policy pertaining to language use were considered as units of analysis. Furthermore, empirical and theoretical literature written in areas of language policy and national identity were consulted. The autoher also included his personal experiences as a university instructor and informal meetings held with people in different walks of life. The evidence obtained from the sources mentioned above reflects that the language policy used in Ethiopia is highly polarized: ranging from one language to all to no language to all. That is, the regimes before EPRDF dictate one language to be used as a tool of communication to all Ethiopians. On the other hand, the EPRDF regime emphasized local language and culture without (practically) giving any room for national communication. Both approaches contribute little to national identity formation. This book recommends that Ethiopians need to learn from other multilingual countries about language planning. Ethnocentric thinking that assumes one’s own language as superior to the other’s language should be avoided. Politicians also need to abstain from politicizing language (identity) and using it as a means of mobilizing support. This book recommends that bilingual/ multilingual education contributes a lot to Ethiopian national identity formation.

Author : Christine McNab
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Amharic language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003589145

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Language Policy and Language Practice by Christine McNab Pdf

Author : Ruth W. Ndung’u,Martin C. Njoroge,Daniel O. Orwenjo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443869607

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Multilingualism and Education in Africa by Ruth W. Ndung’u,Martin C. Njoroge,Daniel O. Orwenjo Pdf

This book is a must-read for every language teaching professional and researcher working in a multilingual context. Multilingualism and Education in Africa: The State of the State of the Art is an up-to-date exploration and wide-ranging review of the symbiotic relationship between multilingualism and education in Africa. The African continent is rich in languages. Most of her inhabitants are multilingual and many of the nations have embraced multilingual education. This book examines multilingualism in education from three broad perspectives: multilingualism and language in education policy in Africa; multilingualism as an educational resource in Africa; and attitudes and challenges of multilingualism and education in Africa. The book’s nineteen chapters discuss these three perspectives from East, West, Central and South Africa. All the contributors are leading authorities in multilingualism and education. The chapters combine a wide range of viewpoints based on theoretical, empirical and personal experiences. The reader is left with a deeper understanding of the unique features of multilingualism and education in Africa that have seldom been addressed by those who experience them first-hand. The book demonstrates successful practices in multilingualism and education; showing how African nations have determined what works for them without ignoring challenges such as policies on paper, attitudes towards African languages and limited resources. The benefits of multilingual education override the challenges. The book’s extensive coverage makes it an important resource for scholars and policy makers in the field of multilingualism and education. Overall, this book represents an important contribution to an important subject in education globally. The editors have provided an introductory overview to the book and commentaries on the three sections.