Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa

ISBN-13: 9780367463533 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 22 str.

Elizabeth J. Erling; John Clegg; Casmir M. Rubagumya

Opis

This edited collection provides unprecedented insight into the emerging field of multilingual education in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The book puts forward strategies for creating materials, classrooms environments and teacher education programmes which support the use of all of a student’s languages to improve language and content learning.

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List of figures List of tables List of contributors Preface by Casmir M. Rubagumya Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa Part 1: What Does Research Tell Us about the Status of Multilingual Learning in SSA? 2. Research in Multilingual Learning in Africa: Assessing the Effectiveness of Multilingual Education Programming 3. Researching Kreol Seselwa and its Role in Education in the Pursuit of Educational Equity in the Seychelles 4. Classroom Talk in Ghanaian Upper Primary Schools: Understanding English-Only, Teacher-Dominant Practices Part 2: Multilingual Learning in Pre-Primary, Primary and Secondary Schools: Lessons Learned 5. Apprenticeships in Meaning: Transforming Opportunities for Oral and Written Language Learning in the Early Years 6. Vignette: Our Experiences of Enhancing the Quality of Early Childhood Education in Rural Cameroon and Kenya by Drawing on Local Languages 7. Multilingual Learning in Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa: How to Help Children Use All their Languages to Learn 8. Vignette: Implementing Language Supportive Pedagogy to Support Content Learning in Tanzania 9. Creating Translanguaging Inquiry Spaces in Bilingual Classrooms 10. Vignette: Using the Community to Foster English-Kiswahili Bilingualism in Kenya Part 3: Multilingual Resource Development and Teacher Education 11. Multilingual and Language-Supportive Teaching in Rwandan Learning Materials 12. Translanguaging, Multimodality, and Authorship: Cultivating Creativity and Critical Literacies through Multilingual Education in Tanzania 13. Vignette: Creating Multilingual Resources as Part of Teacher Education in Uganda 14. Processes of Pedagogic Change: Integrating Subject and Language Learning through Teacher Education Index