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Sutcliffe, David; Figueroa, John – 1992
An examination of pattern in certain languages spoken primarily by Blacks has both a narrow and a broad focus. The former is on structure and development of the creole spoken by Jamaicans in England and to a lesser extent, a Black country English. The broader focus is on the relationship between the Kwa languages of West Africa and the…
Descriptors: African Languages, Blacks, Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles

Peirce, Bonny Norton; Ridge, Stanley G. M. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
Reviews recent research in multilingualism in Southern Africa, focusing on the role of languages in education, sociolinguistics, and language policy. Much of the research is on South Africa. Topics discussed include language of instruction in schools, teacher education, higher education, adult literacy, language contact, gender and linguistic…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Annotated Bibliographies, Cultural Pluralism, Diachronic Linguistics