Languages in Africa multilingualism, language policy, and education / edited by Elizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, and Ruth Kramer.

Author/creator Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics
Other author Zsiga, Elizabeth C.
Other author Tlale Boyer, One.
Other author Kramer, Ruth (Ruth T.)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoWashington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2014]
Descriptionxii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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SeriesGeorgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series
Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series (2004) ^A1020852
Contents 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.
General note"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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 191-192) and index.
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LCCN 2014014514
ISBN9781626161528 (softcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9781626161535 (ebook)

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