Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004516727
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This book looks takes a broad glance at language policy implementation in the SADC region. Authors grapple with issues and challenges pertaining to language in education polices in multilingual southern Africa.
Handbook of Language Policy and Education in Countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004516727
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This book looks takes a broad glance at language policy implementation in the SADC region. Authors grapple with issues and challenges pertaining to language in education polices in multilingual southern Africa.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004516727
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This book looks takes a broad glance at language policy implementation in the SADC region. Authors grapple with issues and challenges pertaining to language in education polices in multilingual southern Africa.
The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages
Author: Tomasz Kamusella
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137015934
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and educational policies. In doing so, they present significant original research, ensuring that the work will remain a key reference point for the subject. This ambitious and wide-ranging edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of southern African languages, sociolinguistics, history and politics.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137015934
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and educational policies. In doing so, they present significant original research, ensuring that the work will remain a key reference point for the subject. This ambitious and wide-ranging edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of southern African languages, sociolinguistics, history and politics.
Interface between English Language Education Policies and Practice
Author: Eric Enongene Ekembe
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031143108
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book is about the policy-practice praxis in English language education, and draws on research from a diverse range of under-explored international settings to showcase the importance of contextual realities on how policy and practice interact. The case studies covered in the volume come from five continents (Africa, Europe, Asia, and South and North America) and cover 11 countries in total. The authors cover a wide range of themes and identify a number of issues at the interface between policy and practice. In some cases they also highlight local initiatives for navigating these issues, providing contextually-grounded guidance and experience which will be of use to teachers and teacher trainers in other settings. This book will be of interest to policy makers, EMI researchers, ELT practitioners, teacher trainers and trainees, and the broader Applied Linguistics research community.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031143108
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book is about the policy-practice praxis in English language education, and draws on research from a diverse range of under-explored international settings to showcase the importance of contextual realities on how policy and practice interact. The case studies covered in the volume come from five continents (Africa, Europe, Asia, and South and North America) and cover 11 countries in total. The authors cover a wide range of themes and identify a number of issues at the interface between policy and practice. In some cases they also highlight local initiatives for navigating these issues, providing contextually-grounded guidance and experience which will be of use to teachers and teacher trainers in other settings. This book will be of interest to policy makers, EMI researchers, ELT practitioners, teacher trainers and trainees, and the broader Applied Linguistics research community.
Hegemony and Language Policies in Southern Africa
Author: Finex Ndhlovu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781443877077
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hegemony and Language Policies in Southern Africa argues that language policy â " whether formal or informal, micro or macro â " has always been the centrepiece of identity imaginings, struggles for political emancipation, and quests for cultural affirmation and economic advancement in the colonial and postcolonial histories of African nations. This book addresses questions on the social and political history of language policies, focusing on their significance for ethnic, immigrant and social groups, as well as for various political projects in southern Africa, as they have unfolded from the late nineteenth century to the present. What do the social and political histories of language policies suggest about current identity narratives in southern Africa? Under what circumstances are language policies deployed in the framing of social and political identities? Whose interests do language policies serve, and whose interests do they undermine in southern Africa? Is it not possible to theorise language policy using lenses other than those from the Global North? Why do scholars, governments, and social policy makers from the Global South always choose to adopt language policy frameworks originating from the Global North? In responding to these crucial questions, this book challenges the hegemony of modernist ideologies of language and introduces notions of ignored lingualism and multilingual habitus in order to look differently at linkages between language policies and political, economic, cultural and developmental issues. Such a focus resonates with contemporary views about language as a multimodal and multilingual practice among speakers. Both academic and non-academic communities will find the book of great interest, as it is written in a style that is both scholarly and reader-friendly.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781443877077
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hegemony and Language Policies in Southern Africa argues that language policy â " whether formal or informal, micro or macro â " has always been the centrepiece of identity imaginings, struggles for political emancipation, and quests for cultural affirmation and economic advancement in the colonial and postcolonial histories of African nations. This book addresses questions on the social and political history of language policies, focusing on their significance for ethnic, immigrant and social groups, as well as for various political projects in southern Africa, as they have unfolded from the late nineteenth century to the present. What do the social and political histories of language policies suggest about current identity narratives in southern Africa? Under what circumstances are language policies deployed in the framing of social and political identities? Whose interests do language policies serve, and whose interests do they undermine in southern Africa? Is it not possible to theorise language policy using lenses other than those from the Global North? Why do scholars, governments, and social policy makers from the Global South always choose to adopt language policy frameworks originating from the Global North? In responding to these crucial questions, this book challenges the hegemony of modernist ideologies of language and introduces notions of ignored lingualism and multilingual habitus in order to look differently at linkages between language policies and political, economic, cultural and developmental issues. Such a focus resonates with contemporary views about language as a multimodal and multilingual practice among speakers. Both academic and non-academic communities will find the book of great interest, as it is written in a style that is both scholarly and reader-friendly.
The Local Politics of Global English
Author: Selma K. Sonntag
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739105986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The status of English as a global language is deeply divisive and hotly contested. The Local Politics of Global English analyzes linguistic globalization in five countries that differ greatly in both their degree of global integration and their use of English. By drawing on the work of language scholars and the growing field of globalization studies, the author provides a revealing portrait of how politicians, activists, scholars and policy-makers in the United States, France, India, South Africa, and Nepal are debating the questions that plague local controversies over global English. Concepts of hegemony and resistance, elites and subalterns, and liberalization and democratization are incorporated into case studies that provide insight into the politics of linguistic globalization from above and from below. Of interest to students of politics and culture, as well as teachers and learners of language, The Local Politics of Global English is a detailed examination of a timely and controversial topic.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739105986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The status of English as a global language is deeply divisive and hotly contested. The Local Politics of Global English analyzes linguistic globalization in five countries that differ greatly in both their degree of global integration and their use of English. By drawing on the work of language scholars and the growing field of globalization studies, the author provides a revealing portrait of how politicians, activists, scholars and policy-makers in the United States, France, India, South Africa, and Nepal are debating the questions that plague local controversies over global English. Concepts of hegemony and resistance, elites and subalterns, and liberalization and democratization are incorporated into case studies that provide insight into the politics of linguistic globalization from above and from below. Of interest to students of politics and culture, as well as teachers and learners of language, The Local Politics of Global English is a detailed examination of a timely and controversial topic.
Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Author: Jon Orman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402088914
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The preamble to the post-apartheid South African constitution states that ‘South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity’ and promises to ‘lay the foundations for a democratic and open society in which government is based on the will of the people and every citizen is equally protected by law’ and to ‘improve the quality of life of all citizens’. This would seem to commit the South African government to, amongst other things, the implementation of policies aimed at fostering a common sense of South African national identity, at societal dev- opment and at reducing of levels of social inequality. However, in the period of more than a decade that has now elapsed since the end of apartheid, there has been widespread discontent with regard to the degree of progress made in connection with the realisation of these constitutional aspirations. The ‘limits to liberation’ in the post-apartheid era has been a theme of much recent research in the ?elds of sociology and political theory (e. g. Luckham, 1998; Robins, 2005a). Linguists have also paid considerable attention to the South African situation with the realisation that many of the factors that have prevented, and are continuing to prevent, effective progress towards the achievement of these constitutional goals are linguistic in their origin.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402088914
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The preamble to the post-apartheid South African constitution states that ‘South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity’ and promises to ‘lay the foundations for a democratic and open society in which government is based on the will of the people and every citizen is equally protected by law’ and to ‘improve the quality of life of all citizens’. This would seem to commit the South African government to, amongst other things, the implementation of policies aimed at fostering a common sense of South African national identity, at societal dev- opment and at reducing of levels of social inequality. However, in the period of more than a decade that has now elapsed since the end of apartheid, there has been widespread discontent with regard to the degree of progress made in connection with the realisation of these constitutional aspirations. The ‘limits to liberation’ in the post-apartheid era has been a theme of much recent research in the ?elds of sociology and political theory (e. g. Luckham, 1998; Robins, 2005a). Linguists have also paid considerable attention to the South African situation with the realisation that many of the factors that have prevented, and are continuing to prevent, effective progress towards the achievement of these constitutional goals are linguistic in their origin.
Language in South Africa
Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521791052
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
A wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521791052
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
A wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages.
The Sociolinguistics of South African Television
Author: Kealeboga Aiseng
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031549155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031549155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Language Policy and National Unity in South Africa/Azania
Author: Neville Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Language and Development in Africa
Author: Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107088550
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107088550
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa.