This book offers a comparative perspective on language education policy and practice in Africa. Contributors to the volume draw from their teaching and research experiences in Botswana, Burundi, Tanzania, Zaire and Zimbabwe. Among the issues discussed are: language policies in Africa and how they affect classroom practice; the importance of taking into account the social, economic and political contexts that underpin language policy in education when discussing language problems in African education; the need to develop an interdisciplinary approach to both teaching and research; and the need for a critical perspective on teaching and researching language in Africa.
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Höhe: 210 mm
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1. Casmir Rubagumya: Introduction
SECTION I: LANGUAGE POLICY ISSUES
2. Rehema Rajabu and Deo Ngonyani: Language Policy in Tanzania and the Hidden Agenda
3. Hermns Mwansoko: The Post-Primary Swahilisation Scheme in Tanzania: From Debate to Struggle
SECTION II: PERSPECTIVES ON THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH
4. Nshindi G. Mulamba: English Language Teaching in Zaire: Objectives and Users' Needs
5. Richard Mabala: Teaching Literature in English in Tanzanian Secondary Schools: Cinderella or Ugly Sister?
6. Andrew Morrison and Lawrence Tshuma: 'Consensus ad idem': English for Academic Legal Purposes at the University of Zimbabwe
SECTION III: CLASSROOM RESEARCH
7. Jo Arthur: English in Botswana Primary Classrooms: Functions and Constraints
8. Lin Ndayipfukamiye: Code-Switching in Burundi Primary Classrooms
SECTION IV: UNDERSTANDING READING PROCESSES
9. Akundaeli Mbise: Teaching English Language Reading in Tanzanian Secondary Schools
10. Deo Numi: Beyond Strategy to Resources in Reading in Educational Contexts: When Reading Strategies Become Ineffective
SECTION V: TOWARDS A CRITICAL PEDAGOGY
11. Catherine Wallace: Texts and Classroom Procedures for Critical Reading
12. Casmir Rubagumya: Epilogue: Towards Critical Language Awareness in Africa
