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[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Languages in Africa : multilingualism, language policy, and education / / edited by Elizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, and Ruth Kramer ; cover design by James Keller"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Washington, District of Columbia : , : Georgetown University Press, , 2014"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2014"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-62616-153-4"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (220 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics Series"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"306.44/6096"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Multilingualism - Africa"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Native language and education - Africa"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Language policy - Africa"]
[{"$nulls":4},"African languages - Social aspects"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","\"Contributors to this volume came together to discuss the problems and promise of African multilingualism at a joint meeting of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics and the Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics in Washington, D.C., in March 2013. As part of that joint conference, a workshop on language and education in Africa was organized by Carolyn Adger of the Center for Applied Linguistics. That workshop became the inspiration for this volume.\"--Introduction."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Layers of language : some bad news and some good news on multilingualism, language policy, and education in Africa / Elizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, and Ruth Kramer -- Early reading success in Africa : the language factor / Barbara Trudell and Carolyn Temple Adger -- Classroom discourse in bilingual and multilingual Kenyan primary schools / Lydiah Kananu Kiramba -- Investigating teacher effects in mother-tongue-based multilingual education programs / Stephen L. Walter -- A complementary education program in Ghana / Kingsley Arkorful -- Request strategies as used by Tunisian EFL learners / Imen Aribi -- Language contact and language attitudes in two Dagara-speaking border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana / "]
[{"$nulls":4},"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."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","People 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"]