Research Catalog

Title

Comparative perspectives on language and literacy: selected papers from the work of the Language and Literacy Commission of the 10th World Congress of Comparative Education Societies Cape Town, 1998/ edited by Leslie Limage.

Publication

Dakar : Unesco, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Limage, Leslie.
• Unesco. Regional Office for Education in Africa.
• World Congress of Comparative Education Societies (10th : 1998 : Cape Town) Language and Literacy Commission.

Description

[644] p.; 30 cm.

Subjects

• Comparative education > Congresses
• Literacy > Congresses
• Language and languages > Research
• Comparative linguistics > Congresses

Contents

Language and literacy : inextricably linked realities, fragmented policies / Leslie J. Limage -- Education, equity, and transformation from the perspectives of language education / Pai Obanya -- Language minority rights or the end of bilingual education in California? / Jennifer Blythe Vega -- African Americans, Ebonics, and US language planning-policy / Geneva Smitherman -- Multilingualism in democratic South Africa / Vic Webb -- The status of mother tongue education in South Africa / Corene De Wet and Steve Niemann -- Observations from minority language education in Canada / Normand Frenette and Saeed Quazi -- Computer-based education and adult English second language learning / Joy Lwanga-Lumu -- The effect of two-way immersion programs on reading attitudes / Grace K. Park -- Language issues in a multilingual masters program in community education / Doria Daniels and Elizabeth Henning -- Languages, development, and reconstructing education in South Africa / Kathleen Heugh -- Enabling policies, disabling practices / Zubeida Desai -- The biliteracy practices and preferences of Khmer-English and Vietnamese-English bilingual students in suburban Australia / Heather Lotherington -- Immigrant status, language proficiency, and opportunities to learn : determinants of the mathematics achievement of Pacific Rim students in California / Jia Wang, Pete Goldschmidt, and Dean T. Jamison -- Major and minor languages in complex linguistic ecologies : the Nigerian experience / Titilayo Olufunmiloa Ufomata -- The language identity / Kara Smith -- The political dimension of mother tongue instruction in Malawi / Gregory Kamwendo -- Going to a better life : perspectives on the future of language in education for San and Khoe South Africans / Nigel Crawhall -- Codeswitching in primary mathematics lessons / Ailie Cleghorn and Ruth Dube -- Multicultural daycare of pre-school children in Rinkeby, Stockholm / Pirkko Leporanta-Morley and Birgitta Hult -- Plaidoyer pour une politique linguistique cohérente en matière d'apprentisage précoce des langues / Dominique Groux -- In search of a meaningful language policy in Tanzania / Y.I. Rubanza -- Progress and problems in the implementation of a mother tongue policy in education in Africa : the case of the Kirundization programme in Burundi / Herménǵild3 Rwantabagu -- Tanzania language choice / Michael Kadeghe -- Education policymaking in South Africa, education for liberation / Zelda Groener -- Knowledges of adult literacy / Richard Darville -- Measuring literacy / Alan Davies -- Teaching and reading the world : an experience in a Freirian curriculum reform in São Paulo / Maria del Pilar O'Cadiz -- Decentralization and local capacity building in the Sahel : results of the PADLOS-education study / Peter Easton and Laouali Malam Moussa -- Future perspectives : assessing literacy and empowerment / Julia Betts -- Taking Freire into the next millennium / James Kanyesigye ... [et al.] -- The impact of Kenya's language policy on the adult literacy programme / Kitula G. Kingei -- Ambivalent adventure : indigenization of literacy programmes in Africa / Francis Owino -- The impacts of current medium of instruction policies on literacy development in post colonial Africa / Grace Bunyi -- Teacher action research into language and literacy issues in Cape Town classrooms / Peter Plúddemann -- The Nepal literacy program / Chij Shretha and Barbara Garner -- "School is where you learn to read" : early literacy learning in the lives of South African children / Carole Bloch and Mastin Prinsloo -- The English for Educational Development course / Melvyn November -- Acknowledging and accommodating bi and multi-lingualism in English for educational development at the University of the Western Cape (South Africa) / Charlyn Dyers -- EED : language, literacy and communication, & Curriculum 2005 / Charles George -- Corpus English in South Africa / Linda Williams -- Enseignement et démocratisation [Ile Maurice, Ile de la Réunion] / Azzedine Si Moussa and Frédéric Tupin -- Language planning in the European Union and the Republic of South Africa / Anthony Adams -- The post-colonial elite and African language policies / Kwesi Kwaa Prah -- Producing educational materials in local languages : costs from Guatemala and Senegal / Ayesha Y. Vawda -- Quelle planification pour quels droits linguistiques en Europe? / Soledad Pérez -- Towards a strategy for changing attitudes to indigenous African languages / D. Okoth Okombo -- The interface between teacher language competencies, teacher beliefs, curriculum, and teaching approaches / Francis Manghubai -- Young children's literacy in multilingual classrooms [South Africa and the UK] / Carole Bloch and Viv Edwards -- Political dilemma in language planning in Africa / Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo.

Call Number

Sc F 01-71

ISBN

9290910747 (pb)

OCLC

• 50810220
• 44827692

Title

Comparative perspectives on language and literacy: selected papers from the work of the Language and Literacy Commission of the 10th World Congress of Comparative Education Societies Cape Town, 1998/ edited by Leslie Limage.

Imprint

Dakar : Unesco, 1999.

Added Author

Limage, Leslie.

Unesco. Regional Office for Education in Africa.

World Congress of Comparative Education Societies (10th : 1998 : Cape Town) Language and Literacy Commission.

Research Call Number

Sc F 01-71