Bridges and Barriers: Language in African Education and Development

ISBN-13: 9781900650977 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 278 str.

Williams, Eddie

Opis

Argues that in 'Anglophone' Africa, education is not effective because of the use of English, rather than children's first languages, both as the medium of instruction, and also as the language in which children are first taught to read.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Malawi and Zambia — The Background; Chapter 3 Reading in First and Additional Languages; Chapter 4 The Reading Tests; Chapter 5 Results of the English Reading Tests; Chapter 6 Results of the African Language Reading Tests; Chapter 7 Individual Reading Sessions; Chapter 8 The Language Dilemma in African Schools; Chapter 9 Conclusion; envois Envois;

O autorze

Eddie Williams　has　worked on language and literacy projects in many African countries, and　published widely on language policy, development and reading in multilingual contexts. Until retiring, he was professor of Applied Linguistics at Bangor University, Wales, prior to which he worked at the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Reading.