LEADER 04907nam 2200673 450 001 9910815070503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-62616-153-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000370175 035 $a(EBL)1977097 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001437277 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11934773 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001437277 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11461049 035 $a(PQKB)10411940 035 $a(OCoLC)904339049 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42481 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1977097 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11031230 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1977097 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000370175 100 $a20150319h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLanguages in Africa $emultilingualism, language policy, and education /$fedited by Elizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, and Ruth Kramer ; cover design by James Keller 210 1$aWashington, District of Columbia :$cGeorgetown University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (220 p.) 225 1 $aGeorgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics Series 300 $a"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. 311 $a1-62616-152-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $tLayers of language : some bad news and some good news on multilingualism, language policy, and education in Africa /$rElizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, and Ruth Kramer --$tEarly reading success in Africa : the language factor /$rBarbara Trudell and Carolyn Temple Adger --$tClassroom discourse in bilingual and multilingual Kenyan primary schools /$rLydiah Kananu Kiramba --$tInvestigating teacher effects in mother-tongue-based multilingual education programs /$rStephen L. Walter --$tA complementary education program in Ghana /$rKingsley Arkorful --$tRequest strategies as used by Tunisian EFL learners /$rImen Aribi --$tLanguage contact and language attitudes in two Dagara-speaking border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana /$rRichard Beyogle --$tLanguage and education policy in Botswana : the case of Sebirwa /$rOne Tlale Boyer and Elizabeth C. Zsiga --$tEthnic language shift in Nao /$rSamson Seid --$tThe role of language and culture for ethnic identity maintenance : the case of the Gujarati community in South Africa /$rSheena Shah --$t"The palm oil with which words are eaten" : proverbs from endangered Cameroonian indigenous languages /$rEyvoi Njwe --$tThe linguistic "glocal" in urban popular music in Nigeria /$rTolulope Odebunmi --$tLanguage use in advertisements as a reflection of speakers' language habits /$rLeonard Muaka --$tThe persuasive nature of metaphors in Kenya's political discourse /$rLeonard Muaka --$tAfrican languages in the media : visualizations of pathologized polyglossia /$rAnjali Pandey. 330 $aPeople in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national indigenous language-written, widespread, sometimes used in school-surrounds it. An international language like French or English, a vestige of colonialism, carries prestige, is used in higher education, and promises mobility-and yet it will not be well known by its users. The essays in Languages in Africa explore the layers of African multilingualism as they affect lang 410 0$aGeorgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series (2004) 606 $aMultilingualism$zAfrica$vCongresses 606 $aNative language and education$zAfrica$vCongresses 606 $aLanguage policy$zAfrica$vCongresses 606 $aAfrican languages$xSocial aspects$vCongresses 615 0$aMultilingualism 615 0$aNative language and education 615 0$aLanguage policy 615 0$aAfrican languages$xSocial aspects 676 $a306.44/6096 702 $aZsiga$b Elizabeth C. 702 $aTlale Boyer$b One 702 $aKramer$b Ruth$g(Ruth T.), 702 $aKeller$b James 712 12$aGeorgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815070503321 996 $aLanguages in Africa$93924992 997 $aUNINA