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

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Zsiga, Elizabeth C., editor.

Tlale Boyer, One, editor.

Kramer, Ruth (Ruth T.), editor.

Conference Name:

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (2013 : Washington, D.C.), authoring body.

Series:

Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series (2004)

Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism--Africa--Congresses.

Multilingualism.

Native language and education--Africa--Congresses.

Native language and education.

Language policy--Africa--Congresses.

Language policy.

African languages--Social aspects--Congresses.

African languages.

African languages--Social aspects.

Africa.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

Text in English.

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.

Notes:

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781626161528

1626161526

OCLC:

878224776