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050	0	0	_aP115.5.A35 _bG46 2014
111	2		_aGeorgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics _d(2013 : _cWashington, D.C.)
245	1	0	_aLanguages in Africa : _bmultilingualism, language policy, and education / _cedited by Elizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, and Ruth Kramer.
260			_aWashington, DC,: _bGeorgetown University press, _c2014
300			_axii, 207 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
490	1		_aGeorgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series
500			_a"Contributors to this volume came together to discuss the problems and promise of African multilingualism at a joint meeting of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics and the Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics in Washington, D.C., in March 2013. As part of that joint conference, a workshop on language and education in Africa was organized by Carolyn Adger of the Center for Applied Linguistics. That workshop became the inspiration for this volume."--Introduction.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 191-192) and index.
505	0	0	_tLayers of language : some bad news and some good news on multilingualism, language policy, and education in Africa / _rElizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, and Ruth Kramer -- _tEarly reading success in Africa : the language factor / _rBarbara Trudell and Carolyn Temple Adger -- _tClassroom discourse in bilingual and multilingual Kenyan primary schools / _rLydiah Kananu Kiramba -- _tInvestigating teacher effects in mother-tongue-based multilingual education programs / _rStephen L. Walter -- _tA complementary education program in Ghana / _rKingsley Arkorful -- _tRequest strategies as used by Tunisian EFL learners / _rImen Aribi -- _tLanguage contact and language attitudes in two Dagara-speaking border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana / _rRichard Beyogle -- _tLanguage and education policy in Botswana : the case of Sebirwa / _rOne Tlale Boyer and Elizabeth C. Zsiga -- _tEthnic language shift in Nao / _rSamson Seid -- _tThe role of language and culture for ethnic identity maintenance : the case of the Gujarati community in South Africa / _rSheena Shah -- _t"The palm oil with which words are eaten" : proverbs from endangered Cameroonian indigenous languages / _rEyvoi Njwe -- _tThe linguistic "glocal" in urban popular music in Nigeria / _rTolulope Odebunmi -- _tLanguage use in advertisements as a reflection of speakers' language habits / _rLeonard Muaka -- _tThe persuasive nature of metaphors in Kenya's political discourse / _rLeonard Muaka -- _tAfrican languages in the media : visualizations of pathologized polyglossia / _rAnjali Pandey.
650		0	_aMultilingualism _zAfrica. _vCongresses.
650		0	_aNative language and education _zAfrica _vCongresses.
650		0	_aLanguage policy _zAfrica _vCongresses.
650		0	_aAfrican languages _xSocial aspects _vCongresses.
700	1		_aZsiga, Elizabeth C.
700	1		_aTlale Boyer, One.
700	1		_aKramer, Ruth _q(Ruth T.)
830		0	_aGeorgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series (2004)
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