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Author : Jack Berry,Thomas Albert Sebeok
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111562520
Author : Lilian Lem Atanga,Sibonile Edith Ellece,Lia Litosseliti,Jane Sunderland
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272300
Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, Struggle and Change is the first book to bring together the topics of language and gender, African languages, and gender in African contexts, and it does so in a descriptive, explanatory and critical way. Including fascinating new work and new, often challenging data from Botswana, Chad, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this collection looks at some ‘traditional’ uses of language in relation to the gender of its speakers and the gendered nature of the languages themselves; it also identifies and explores social change in terms of both gender and sexuality, as reflected in and constructed by language and discourse. The contributions to this volume are accessibly written and will be of interest to students and established academics working on African sociolinguistics and discourse, as well as those whose interest is language, gender and sexuality.
Author : Ayọ Bamgboṣe
Publisher : International African Institute
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSC:32106010387931
Focusing on the problem of multilingualism in relation to national integration, communication, development and education in Eastern Africa, this study examines the processes of policy formulation. It discusses different types of language policies and practices in the context of the role of national and international agencies of language planning. Although the focus of the book is sub-Saharan Africa, comparisons with other parts of the world are made whenever necessary.
Author : Elizabeth J. Erling,John Clegg,Casmir M. Rubagumya,Colin Reilly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000379471
This edited collection provides unprecedented insight into the emerging field of multilingual education in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Multilingual education is claimed to have many benefits, amongst which are that it can improve both content and language learning, especially for learners who may have low ability in the medium of instruction and are consequently struggling to learn. The book represents a range of Sub-Saharan school contexts and describes how multilingual strategies have been developed and implemented within them to support the learning of content and language. It looks at multilingual learning from several points of view, including ‘translanguaging’, or the use of multiple languages – and especially African languages – for learning and language-supportive pedagogy, or the implementation of a distinct pedagogy to support learners working through the medium of a second language. The book puts forward strategies for creating materials, classroom environments and teacher education programmes which support the use of all of a student’s languages to improve language and content learning. The contexts which the book describes are challenging, including low school resourcing, poverty and low literacy in the home, and school policy which militates against the use of African languages in school. The volume also draws on multilingual education approaches which have been successfully carried out in higher resource countries and lend themselves to being adapted for use in SSA. It shows how multilingual learning can bring about transformation in education and provides inspiration for how these strategies might spread and be further developed to improve learning in schools in SSA and beyond. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com.
Author : Thomas Albert Sebeok
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015038922798
To assess the current state of linguistic activity in all fields and all countries.
Author : Efurosibina E. Adegbija
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1853592390
"This book argues for the need to empower African indigenous languages for greater functions in national life. It makes an important and useful contribution to the understanding of the sociolinguistic and sociopolitical dimensions of language attitudes in the sub-Saharan African language context." "Overall, the book will interest all sociolinguists, language in education researchers and scholars, language policy makers in multilingual situations, and even politicians. Also, anyone interested in the complex African language context will find the book very informative, even stirring, while those involved with language issues in multilingual situations all over the world will find Language Attitudes in Sub-Saharan Africa interesting, stimulating, and valuable."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Ayọ Bamgboṣe
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 3825847756
Language is a critical factor in nation-building, and in a continent such as Africa, where language groups do not necessarily correspond with national boundaries, it is potentially contentious as well. Ayo Bamgbose's new book focuses on the problem of language exclusion, whereby certain languages -- and groups -- are omitted from language policies, particularly in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Originally based on a series of lectures given in South Africa, the individual chapters largely preserve the original style of presentation. Consequently, the book is readable, and a valuable introduction to some of the more important issues in African sociolinguistics. The book makes special reference to the language situation in post-apartheid South Africa. The appendices provide access to some of the most important documents on language policies such as the Organization of African Unity's Language Plan of Action For Africa (1986), the language provisions in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of South Africa (1996), and the Barcelona Universal Declaration on Linguistics Rights.
Author : Leketi Makalela,Goodith White
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800412323
This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.
Author : Leketi Makalela,Goodith White
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800412323
This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.
Author : Paulin G. Djité
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847690456
This book is an analysis of modernisation informed by the place of language in education, health, the economy and governance in the African context. It paints a wide canvas of Africa in its different facets, and shows how language is used as an instrument to deny access to socioeconomic and political emancipation.
Author : Center for Applied Linguistics,Dora E. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 0835733688
Author : Albert S. Gérard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 9630538326
The first major comparative study of African writing in western languages, European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Albert S. Gérard, falls into four wide-ranging sections: an overview of early contacts and colonial developments "Under Western Eyes"; chapters on "Black Consciousness" manifest in the debates over Panafricanism and Negritude; a group of essays on mental decolonization expressed in "Black Power" texts at the time of independence struggles; and finally "Comparative Vistas," sketching directions that future comparative study might explore. An introductory e.
Author : Edmun B. Richmond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032721008
During colonial times, education in Africa was based on the European system of education, and the European languages remained the only languages taught in schools. These languages were often taught by poorly trained teachers who passed their errors on to students. Major policy revisions and modifications in language education, teacher training, and textbook and examination writing are changing the situation. These educational and language policy shifts are examined in seven anglophone and francophone countries in western, central, and eastern Africa, including: Senegal, The Gambia, Liberia, Gabon, Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya. Changes in these countries are seen as indicative of general trends in other African nations. The study examines each of the seven countries' basic cultural and linguistic compositions, present school systems and policies regarding indigenous and foreign languages, teacher training and professional preparation, textbook preparation and use, the use of broadcasting to teach language, and adult functional literacy programs. Educational reforms and changes common to all seven countries are examined, and their common educational needs and priorities are discussed. (Author/MSE) (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Literacy Education)
Author : Colin Reilly,Feliciano Chimbutane,John Clegg,Casmir Rubagumya,Elizabeth J. Erling
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000998085
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 : Josef J. Schmied
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Africa
ISBN : UVA:X002126792