Languages in Africa : Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction: Layers of Language-Some Bad News and Some Good News on Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education in Africa -- 1 Early Reading Success in Africa: The Language Factor -- 2 Multilingualism as a Sociolinguistic Phenomenon: Evidence from Africa -- 3 Classroom Discourse in Bilingual and Multilingual Kenyan Primary Schools -- 4 Investigating Teacher Effects in Mother-Tongue-Based Multilingual Education Programs -- 5 Ghana's Complementary Education Program -- 6 Language Contact and Language Attitudes in Two Dagara-Speaking Border Communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana -- 7 Language and Education Policy in Botswana: The Case of Sebirwa -- 8 Ethnic Language Shift among the Nao People of Ethiopia -- 9 The Role of Language and Culture in Ethnic Identity Maintenance: The Case of the Gujarati Community in South Africa -- 10 "The Palm Oil with Which Words Are Eaten": Proverbs from Cameroon's Endangered Indigenous Languages -- 11 The Linguistic "Glocal" in Nigeria's Urban Popular Music -- 12 Language Use in Advertisements as a Reflection of Speakers' Language Habits -- 13 The Persuasive Nature of Metaphors in Kenya's Political Discourse -- 14 African Languages on Film: Visualizations of Pathologized Polyglossia -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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