Author: Loretta Bitene Ikome
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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This study investigates the challenges that face learners who speak only Afaan Oromoo, and use Amharic as the language of learning and teaching LoLT in selected schools Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It examines the current teaching strategies used by teachers of multilingual classes to assist learners who speak languages other than Amharic. The study also explores how mother tongue based multilingual education serves the interest of immigrant learners whose primary language is not Amharic. It analyses the possibility of the language-in-education policy in Addis Ababa to implement new policies that would introduce Afaan Oromoo or any other languages as LoLT in these selected schools in Addis Ababa. To capture the policy, problems, and strategies of mother tongue based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) in Addis Ababa, this research has been designed as a case study. The author/researcher used the aÌ22́Ơ¿3mixed research designsaÌ22́Ơ℗+, or rather the quan-qual approach with four different measuring instruments for data collection, namely semi-structured interviews; questionnaires; classroom observations and focus-group discussions. Data collected from administrators at education administration offices, learners, teachers, and parents of learners at the Marie and Cheffie primary schools were analysed quantitatively and qualitatively to answer the research questions. Major findings from this study reveal that using Amharic as the only LoLT in selected schools in Addis Ababa prevents learners who speak languages other than Amharic from developing psychologically, socially, and cognitively. Emerging from the study is that current teaching strategies used in multilingual classes in Addis Ababa do not facilitate the learning of Amharic and its use as a LoLT at the same time. The research moreover indicates that the government needs to develop and deploy strategies for training present and incoming teachers on how to teach and manage multilingual classes. By focusing on practices in Addis Ababa, this study further contributes to the area of inclusive education by identifying the gap in the manner in which MTB-MLE has been implemented in Ethiopia.
Author: Catherine Griefenow-Mewis
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447058841
Category : Education and state
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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This publication reflects the results of the Ethiopian education reform as well as the exceptional efforts that multiethnic Ethiopia undertakes in order to cope with the challenges arising from the population explosion. More than 55 per cent of the 77 million Ethiopians are under the age of 18 years. The great social and political changes started in Ethiopia at the beginning of the 1990s have resulted in the substitution of the educational system based on Amharic and English by one which uses a multilingual approach. According to the Ministry of Education 22 out of the 84 languages spoken in Ethiopia are now used as media of instruction in primary schools. The book presents the lectures delivered at the workshop "On the Results of the Reform in Ethiopia's Language and Education Policy" held at Addis Ababa University in April 2006 by Ethiopian education experts and a German research team. Their contribution has facilitated a subsumption into the historical context and has given insight into the analyses of the use of 8 Ethiopian languages in primary schools in different regions of the country.
Author: Taha M. Roba
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524674710
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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This publication is the second edition of the Oromo Textbook. It is designed to teach the Oromo language to those who can speak the language but are unable to read it; for those children who were born and live outside their homeland; and for those who are interested in learning one of the major languages of Africa. The Oromo language is spoken by close to 40 million people in Ethiopia and northern Kenya and is the second or third largest language in Africa. It is a testament to the resilience of the Oromo language and how it survived over a century of Abyssinian onslaught and suppression. By reading this handbook one can grasp aspects of Oromo culture, systems of thought the principle of social organization and the art of communication. Rare among Oromo educational material, this volume reads smoothly; from learning the sounds of Oromo alphabets also known as qubee, to reading, and understanding the Oromo language. This work is distinct because it brings out the Oromo oral tradition. It is loaded with specific ways Oromos learned, thought, and preserved their language and culture, the essence of their Orommumma (Oromomness). This book strives to fill the void of Oromo educational material not only in North- America, but also in Oromia (Ethiopia), where teaching and learning the Oromo language outlawed by successive Ethiopian regimes and not sufficiently developed under the current government. This book will undoubtedly emerge as a conversation and discussion piece in the learning and teaching of the Oromo language, Oromo history and tradition of the Oromo people.
Author: Carol Benson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004449671
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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This second volume of Language Issues in Comparative Education, following the tradition of the first, introduces the state of the field and calls attention to innovations described throughout. The chapters examine language-in-education policy change, describe implementational activities, and present strategic frameworks for research and advocacy.
Author: Ibsaa Guutama
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 145661794X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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The earliest registered civilization is probably the civilization of Cushitic speaking peoples spearheaded by ancient Egypt. The Oromo are of the Cushitic speaking stock. Missing links of that civilization are hoped to be found in the language and culture of the Oromo nation of East Africa. It is not too late for researchers of ancient civilizations to turn their attention towards East Africa, specifically Oromia. The first step towards this may be learning their language. This little book will offer you that opportunity. It is presented in a possible easy but sure way to help you understand its basics.
Author: Colin Baker
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853593628
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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This encyclopedia is divided into three sections: individual bilingualism; bilingualism in society and bilingual education. It includes many pictures, graphs, maps and diagrams. The book concludes with a comprehensive bibliography on bilingualism.
Author: Taha M. Roba
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1468515063
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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This publication is the second edition of Oromo handbook designed to teach the Oromo language to those who can speak the language but are unable to read, and for those whose children were born outside their homeland and are living in foreign land they now call home and for those who are interested in learning one of the major languages of Africa. The Oromo language is spoken by close to 40 million people in Ethiopia, and the second largest languages in Africa. It is spoken by a significant number of people living in the Northern part of Kenya as well. This book is a testimony to the resistance of the Oromo language and how it survived over a century of Abyssinian onslaught. By reading this handbook one can understand the origin, the present, and the future state of the Oromo people and their culture. This work is distinguished because it brings out the Oromo oral tradition. It is also manifestation of the unique Oromo traditional ability to integrate numbers and their significance in everyday life.
Author: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136718273
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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This very original, inspirational book globalises our understanding of languages in education and changes our understanding of bilingual and multilingual education from something mostly western to being truly transnational: it spotlights the small, celebrates African and Asian cases of multilingual classrooms and demonstrates that such education is universally successful. Colin R. Baker, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, UK A norm-setting work on multilingual education, which combines theoretical perspectives with practical experience from different parts of the globe, this book demonstrates convincingly not only that multilingual education works, but also that, for most developing countries, there is no viable alternative. Ayo Bamgbose, Professor Emeritus, University of Ibadan, Nigeria This excellent volume brings to light the fascinating lived experiences of multilingual education in linguistically rich but resource impoverished countries, and offers important lessons from which we can all learn. Amy B. M. Tsui, Professor , Pro Vice-Chancellor & Vice President, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong This is a book of hope and inspiration. Documenting the significant shift that is taking place in countries around the world in the status and legitimacy of mother tongue-based multilingual education, it represents a giant step towards a "tipping point" where mother tongue-based multilingual education will be normalized as the preferred and, in fact, common sense option for educating the children of the world. Jim Cummins, The University of Toronto, Canada This important book challenges us to think about multilingual education from a different angle––this time putting the periphery at the center. The effect is one of destabilizing old visions and imagining new worlds where multilingual education provides the backdrop for generous understandings of all peoples. Ofelia García, Program in Urban Education, Graduate Center/The City University of New York, USA There are regrettably few detailed accounts of successful elementary school instruction in the pupils' home language, which makes this book with its surprising examples (especially Ethiopia and Nepal but other third world cases) so relevant. Students of language education policy will learn a great deal about the possibility of multilingual education from the chapters of this important book. Bernard Spolsky, Professor Emeritus, Bar-Ilan University, Israel At least half of today’s languages are marginalised and endangered and the attention of the world needs to be focused on these minor and minority languages together with the value of multilingualism. If the book succeeds in enhancing the consciousness of the world towards predicaments of the third world, then its efforts will have been amply rewarded. Debi Prasanna Pattanayak, Former Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages, India Drawing on the most powerful and compelling research data to date and connecting this research to linguistic human rights, this book explores the conditions and practices of robust bilingual and multilingual educational innovations in both system-wide and minority-settings and what it is that makes these viable. It demonstrates how, in countries where educational practices are inclusive of linguistic diversity and responsive to local conditions and community participation, implementation of bilingual education even within limited budgetary investment can be successful.
Author: Ibsituu S.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780369602022
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Did you ever want to teach your kids the basics of Afaan Oromo ? Learning Afaan Oromo can be fun with this picture book. In this book you will find the following features: Afaan Oromo Alphabets. Afaan Oromo Words. English Translations.
Author: Tebeje Molla
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811079331
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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This book focuses on higher education in Ethiopia, analysing persisting inequalities and policy responses against the backdrop of the extensive expansion and reform that the system has experienced in recent years. Drawing on empirical data generated through interviews, policy reviews and focus-group discussions, it explicates factors of structural inequality ranging from neoliberal policy orientations to repressive gender culture and geo-political peripherality. In a departure from conventional studies that consider policy a response to social problems, the book takes a critical perspective to show the constitutive role of policy, and explains how the representation of the problem of social inequality undermines equity policy outcomes in Ethiopian higher education. Not only does the book problematise the framing of the problem of inequality in the system, it also outlines strategies for designing transformative equity instruments. In explaining structural factors of inequality and equity provisions, the book productively combines sociological concepts with historical accounts and political economy insights. Given the increased economic optimism associated with higher education in sub-Saharan Africa and the neoliberal ideals underpinning much of the restructuring of the system in the region, this is a timely and important contribution that sheds light on the social justice implications and consequences of such changes. It offers fresh accounts of largely neglected qualitative cases of inequality, making it a valuable read for students and researchers in the areas of Ethiopian education policy studies, international and comparative education, and international development.
