Multilingual Learning And Language Supportive Pedagogies In Sub Saharan Africa

Author : Elizabeth J. Erling,John Clegg,Casmir M. Rubagumya,Colin Reilly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000379471

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Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa by Elizabeth J. Erling,John Clegg,Casmir M. Rubagumya,Colin Reilly Pdf

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 : 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 : Ruth W. Ndung’u,Martin C. Njoroge,Daniel O. Orwenjo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,7 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.

Author : IBE
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231001987

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Teaching and learning to read in a multilingual context by IBE Pdf

Author : Moges Yigezu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Caroline Kerfoot,Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351859974

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Language in Epistemic Access by Caroline Kerfoot,Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen Pdf

This book focuses on how to address persistent linguistically structured inequalities in education, primarily in relation to South African schools, but also in conversation with Australian work and with resonances for other multilingual contexts around the world. The book as a whole lays bare the tension between the commitment to multilingualism enshrined in the South African Constitution and language-in-education policy, and the realities of the dominance of English and the virtual absence of indigenous African languages in current educational practices. It suggests that dynamic plurilingual pedagogies can be allied with the explicit scaffolding of genre-based pedagogies to help redress asymmetries in epistemic access and to re-imagine policies, pedagogies, and practices more in tune with the realities of multilingual classrooms. The contributions to this book offer complementary insights on routes to improving access to school knowledge, especially for learners whose home language or language variety is different to that of teaching and learning at school. All subscribe to similar ideologies which include the view that multilingualism should be seen as a resource rather than a 'problem' in education. Commentaries on these chapters highlight evidence-based high-impact educational responses, and suggest that translanguaging and genre may well offer opportunities for students to expand their linguistic repertoires and to bridge epistemological differences between community and school. This book was originally published as a special issue of Language and Education.

Author : Anthony A. Essien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350369221

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Multilingualism in Mathematics Education in Africa by Anthony A. Essien Pdf

This book brings together the first book collection of African research in mathematics education in multilingual societies and chronicles current research in different linguistic contexts across the African continent, (including Algeria, Namibia, Malawi, Morocco, Rwanda, South Africa) on issues of multilingualism in mathematics education, but more importantly, it foregrounds pertinent issues for future research. With many of the authors building on earlier path-breaking African research, the book is a unique contribution of careful thinking through how linguistic diversity and multilingualism manifest in ways that differ from one geopolitical context to another. This volume is an important contribution to the growing recognition of multilingualism as the global 'linguistic dispensation' in mathematics education. It is an invitation to how we might (as an international community where more and more multilingualism is the norm rather than an exception) pay more attention to the multilingual agency and capabilities of both students and teachers in order to better harness the epistemic potential of multiple languages in contexts of language diversity in mathematics education.

Author : Ayọ Bamgboṣe
Publisher : International African Institute
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSC:32106010387931

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Language and the Nation by Ayọ Bamgboṣe Pdf

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 : Richard Tabulawa
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9782869785694

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Teaching and Learning in Context by Richard Tabulawa Pdf

Since the 1990s, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced unprecedented attempts at reforming teacher and student classroom practices, with a learner-centred pedagogy regarded as an effective antidote to the prevalence of teacher-centred didactic classroom practices. Attempts at reform have been going on all over the continent. In fact, learner-centred pedagogy has been described as one of the most pervasive educational ideas in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. Research has revealed that the major attempts have largely failed mainly because teachers have not been able to adopt instructional innovations to technical problems. This failure is also related to lack of resources, and poor teacher training programmes which lead to poor teacher quality, among others. This book attempts to explain why pedagogical change has not occurred in spite of the much energy and resources that have been committed to such reforms.The book also takes us inside what the author calls 'the socio-cultural world of African classrooms' to help us understand the reasons teachers dominate classroom life and rely disproportionately on didactic methods of teaching. Its conceptual analyses capture the best of both the sociology and the anthropology of education in contexts of poverty, as well as the politics of education.The book concludes that a socio-cultural approach should be the basis for developing culturally responsive indigenous pedagogies, though these may or may not turn out to be in any way akin to constructivist learner-centred pedagogies.

Author : African Union,Association for the Development of Education in Africa,Global Education Monitoring Report Team
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231005480

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Born to learn by African Union,Association for the Development of Education in Africa,Global Education Monitoring Report Team Pdf

Author : MARGARET FUNKE OMIDIRE (EDITOR)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1775822702

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Multilingualism in the Classroom by MARGARET FUNKE OMIDIRE (EDITOR) Pdf

Author : Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo,Martin C. Njoroge,Ruth W. Ndung'u,Phyllis W. Mwangi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Education, Bilingual
ISBN : 1443862223

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Multilingualism and Education in Africa by Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo,Martin C. Njoroge,Ruth W. Ndung'u,Phyllis W. Mwangi 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 bookâ (TM)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 bookâ (TM)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.

Author : Efurosibina E. Adegbija
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1853592390

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Language Attitudes in Sub-Saharan Africa by Efurosibina E. Adegbija Pdf

"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 : Belinda Mendelowitz,Ana Ferreira,Kerryn Dixon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350165939

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Language Narratives and Shifting Multilingual Pedagogies by Belinda Mendelowitz,Ana Ferreira,Kerryn Dixon Pdf

This book challenges monoglossic ideologies, traditional language pedagogies and dominant forms of knowledge construction by foregrounding multilingual and multicultural students' language narratives, repertoires, and identities. The research is based on a sixteen-year longitudinal study of a sociolinguistics course at an English language university and the language narratives produced by the first-year education students. The study was borne out of a need to create a critically inclusive course that would engage a cohort of students from socially and linguistically diverse backgrounds in contemporary South Africa. Drawing on data from over 5,000 students who have journeyed through this course, this book shows how a narrative heteroglossic pedagogy harnesses students' multilingual strengths. A close analysis reveals complex identity work by students located in the Global South. The authors argue that decolonising language education is about reconceptualising language, reconfiguring what knowledges are valued in the classroom, and reshaping pedagogy.

Author : Carol Griffiths
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031306136

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The Practice of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) Around the World by Carol Griffiths Pdf

This edited volume presents eleven empirical papers reporting the existing literature and the results of an original study focusing on EMI (English as a medium of instruction) in a particular area (Central and Eastern Europe, Western and Southern Europe, Nordic/Baltic countries, Central Asia, the Middle East, East Asia, South-East Asia, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America). Each of these different areas tends to have its own ways of dealing with the EMI issue, and these are brought together in a meta-analysis in the final chapter. Implications for the conduct of English as a medium of instruction are drawn, both on a chapter-by-chapter basis and also in the meta-analysis. The examination of EMI on a contextual basis is a unique feature of this book, setting it apart from others in the field, which almost all deal with a single or limited context. The volume will be of interest to policymakers, institutional heads, graduate students and their teachers, and to thesis writers and researchers.