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Download full textOuane, Adama, Ed.; Glanz, Christine, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (NJ1), 2011
The central concern of this volume is how to provide quality education to African children, adolescents and adults through the best-suited media and curricular content in order to achieve social cohesion, inclusion and sustainable development. For at least five decades, since the 1953 UNESCO Report "The Use of Vernacular Languages in…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Teaching Methods, African Languages, Bilingual Education
Peer reviewedVilela, Mario – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2002
Examines the place of Portuguese in Portugal's former African Colonies. Characterizes the postcolonial position of Portuguese in Africa as a complex relationship between Portuguese as the official language and the other languages of these countries. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: African Languages, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Language Planning
Peer reviewedBhola, H. S. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1991
This review covers the status of languages and literacy in the countries of southern Africa, policies of literacy promotion, and the emerging symbioses among spoken languages and among literacies in mother tongues, national or official languages, and metropolitan languages. Five statistical tables are included. (66 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Definitions, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedGfeller, Elisabeth; Robinson, Clinton – Language and Education, 1998
Addresses the question of mother-tongue education of children, especially in francophone countries of Africa. It seeks to contribute to the debate on the integration of local languages into educational systems in multilingual settings by stressing the opposing cultural messages carried by official and indigenous languages. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Mansour, Gerda – 1993
This book examines the phenomenon of multilingualism in West Africa from a historical, social, and environmental perspective. Chapter 1 explains why the catalogue of African languages established by linguists is not reliable for assessing the linguistic diversity of the region. It also discusses studies that show that the linguistic behavior in…
Descriptors: Acculturation, African History, Colonialism, Cultural Pluralism
Farukuoye, Helga – 1986
The actual possibilities for communication among Africans are unsatisfactory. While the north has adopted Arabic as its lingua franca, most African states south of the Sahara still use the language(s) of their former colonial masters as official languages, thereby neglecting their native languages. This situation excludes many people from higher…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication
Haasbroek, J. B.; Botha, Petro – 1989
In this investigation of education, conducted in South West Africa/Namibia, it was found that the medium of instruction was one of the basic causes of the teaching and educational problems experienced at schools. In South West Africa/Namibia, several languages, including English and Afrikaans as official languages, are involved in the…
Descriptors: African Languages, Afrikaans, Bilingual Education, Developing Nations
