Author: David Wiley
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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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African Language Instruction in the United States--directions and Priorities for the 1980's
Author: David Wiley
Publisher:
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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
African Language Instruction in the United States
Author: David Wiley
Publisher:
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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Publisher:
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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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African Languages in the 1980's
Author: David J. Dwyer
Publisher:
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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Publisher:
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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Resources in Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Language, Society, and Empowerment in Africa and Its Diaspora
Author: Akinloyè Òjó
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793644721
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Africa’s diversity is best illustrated linguistically. Thousands of endogenous and exogenous languages are linked to and central to the identity and reality of Africans. Language is a vital lens for analyzing these multifaceted challenges in Africa, where a deeper understanding of the entire linguistic landscape is germane to understanding sociopolitical and cultural systems. Concentrating on instrumental and emblematic functions of language in Africa, Language, Society, and Empowerment in Africa and Its Diaspora argues for the critical value of African languages beyond functionality into philosophical consideration of their importance for African unity and advancement. Akinloyè Òjó calls for the development and empowerment of African languages to serve in various domains, including the support of basic literacy and daily survival of their users. Òjó propagates ways to empower African languages for African sociocultural and economic development in the twenty-first century. The author productively engages works by linguists and language pedagogues to provide an ardent case for the empowerment of African languages in the renewed era of globalization, the internet, and an emergent Global Africa. Òjó posits and accentuates some of the notable modalities for empowering African languages in specialized domains for national and continental development.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793644721
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Africa’s diversity is best illustrated linguistically. Thousands of endogenous and exogenous languages are linked to and central to the identity and reality of Africans. Language is a vital lens for analyzing these multifaceted challenges in Africa, where a deeper understanding of the entire linguistic landscape is germane to understanding sociopolitical and cultural systems. Concentrating on instrumental and emblematic functions of language in Africa, Language, Society, and Empowerment in Africa and Its Diaspora argues for the critical value of African languages beyond functionality into philosophical consideration of their importance for African unity and advancement. Akinloyè Òjó calls for the development and empowerment of African languages to serve in various domains, including the support of basic literacy and daily survival of their users. Òjó propagates ways to empower African languages for African sociocultural and economic development in the twenty-first century. The author productively engages works by linguists and language pedagogues to provide an ardent case for the empowerment of African languages in the renewed era of globalization, the internet, and an emergent Global Africa. Òjó posits and accentuates some of the notable modalities for empowering African languages in specialized domains for national and continental development.
A Resource Handbook for African Languages
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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Publisher:
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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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African Language Program Development and Administration
Author: Eyamba G. Bokamba
Publisher: Nalrc Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Publisher: Nalrc Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Official and National Languages in Africa
Author: Conrad Max Benedict Brann
Publisher: International Center for Research on Bilingualism = Centre international de recherche sur le bilinguisme
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Each African nation-state has a number of language domains which together constitute a national language space. The proportion in which this space is filled by territorial languages, regional languages, or one of several nationwide languages and the exolect (foreign language that serves as the official language) varies with each country. But in virtually all African states there is a movement toward selection of a single symbolic language. While African countries had an undifferentiated multitude of territorial languages, the imported, official exolect had to fulfill all central public functions. However, with the selection of regional ethnolects or lingua francas, certain public functions are being transferred to the latter. For now, the exolects fulfill three functions as: (1) the official interethnic communication medium in all central government functions, (2) the chief medium of secondary and postsecondary education, and (3) the main link with the international community. The replacement process is a slow one, and sudden shifts in language emphasis have historically resulted in neglect of the exolect, which proves deleterious to the countries' modernization. Language complementarity of the official exolect and national endolect, a balance of linguistic powers with continuous adjustment, should be encouraged as a means to fill the national language spaces and provide the necessary means of communication at central, regional, and local levels until the process of electing a central national form can be completed. (MSE)
Publisher: International Center for Research on Bilingualism = Centre international de recherche sur le bilinguisme
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Each African nation-state has a number of language domains which together constitute a national language space. The proportion in which this space is filled by territorial languages, regional languages, or one of several nationwide languages and the exolect (foreign language that serves as the official language) varies with each country. But in virtually all African states there is a movement toward selection of a single symbolic language. While African countries had an undifferentiated multitude of territorial languages, the imported, official exolect had to fulfill all central public functions. However, with the selection of regional ethnolects or lingua francas, certain public functions are being transferred to the latter. For now, the exolects fulfill three functions as: (1) the official interethnic communication medium in all central government functions, (2) the chief medium of secondary and postsecondary education, and (3) the main link with the international community. The replacement process is a slow one, and sudden shifts in language emphasis have historically resulted in neglect of the exolect, which proves deleterious to the countries' modernization. Language complementarity of the official exolect and national endolect, a balance of linguistic powers with continuous adjustment, should be encouraged as a means to fill the national language spaces and provide the necessary means of communication at central, regional, and local levels until the process of electing a central national form can be completed. (MSE)
African Studies Center Newsletter
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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