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Download full textParry, Kate – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2010
This paper draws on data collected at the Kitengesa Community Library in Masaka District of Uganda to discuss some of the different literacies that are important in African environments. First, the literacies associated with different languages are analysed, these being classified as "supralanguages" (English in Uganda), "lingua…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multiple Literacies, African Languages, Official Languages
Direct linkNorton, Bonny; Jones, Shelley; Ahimbisibwe, Daniel – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2011
While the HIV/AIDS epidemic has wrought havoc in the lives of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa, access to information about the causes, symptoms, and treatment of the disease remains a challenge for many, and particularly for young people. This article reports on an action research study undertaken in a rural Ugandan village in 2006.…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Action Research, Official Languages, Access to Information
Brock-Utne, Birgit, Ed.; Skattum, Ingse, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2009
The theme of this book cuts across disciplines. Contributors to this volume are specialized in education and especially classroom research as well as in linguistics, most being transdisciplinary themselves. Around 65 sub-Saharan languages figure in this volume as research objects: as means of instruction, in connection with teacher training,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Language Planning, Multicultural Education, Beginning Reading
Merritt, Marilyn; Abdulaziz, Mohamed H. – 1985
The historical background and the current status of Swahili in Kenya and Tanzania, where it is designated as the national language, and in Uganda, where it has assumed a less prominent role, are described. Major factors contributing to the selection of national languages in the region are presented. The ways both linguistic and sociopolitical…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Developing Nations, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries
