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Mayer, Marc; Cylke, Frank Kurt – 1979
A study was conducted in 52 African countries to determine the extent of braille facilities for the blind, with the aim of choosing a location for a central braille producing facility. To make the selection, the factors of ease of communication (i.e., central location), political stability, and extent of already existing organizations for the…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Demography, Developing Nations
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Kambou, Moses K. – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1999
Discusses results of a cross-sectional study that examined the phenomenon of referentiality in the acquisition of English as a foreign language by Francophone English-major college students in Burkina Faso. The research focused on the acquisition of the English article system. A cloze test of 107 items was used to collect the data. Demographic…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Cross Sectional Studies, Demography
Ware, Helen – 1977
This report is the result of a two-month study commissioned by the World Fertility Survey prior to the inclusion of Cameroon in the WFS program, in order to examine the problem of linguistic diversity and the obstacles this problem might pose to a demographic survey of the country. The study was to propose a strategy which would uphold the WFS…
Descriptors: Abortions, African Languages, Basaa, Birth Rate