Focus on Fresh Data on the Language of Instruction Debate in Tanzania and South Africa

Focus on Fresh Data on the Language of Instruction Debate in Tanzania and South Africa
Author: Birgit Brock-Utne
Publisher: African Minds
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1920051465

This is a series of books from the LOITASA (Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa) project. LOITASA is a NUFU-funded (Norwegian University Fund) project which began in January 2002 and continued till the end of 2006. It is, what in donor circles is known as a 'South-South-North' cooperation project which, in this case, involves research cooperation between South Africa, Tanzania and Norway. The first book, entitled Language of instruction in Tanzania and South Africa (LOITASA), focused on the current language in education situation in the two countries by providing a description and analysis of existing language policies and practices.

Language in Focus

Language in Focus
Author: Kasia Papaja
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2016-12-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 144385851X

Applied Linguistics is a field of academic enquiry that deals with the theoretical and empirical investigation of real issues which focus on language. These issues include aspects of linguistics, first or second language acquisition, literacy, language disorders, foreign language learning and teaching, bilingual education, linguistic discrimination, and language policy, among others. New approaches, new theoretical concepts and new methods are a prerequisite for dealing with particular educational issues, and, as such, this book focuses on the challenges and opportunities that emerge from this. It brings together selected presentations given at the LIF2014 conference, which took place in Antalya, Turkey. The main focus of this event was to reflect the internationality of the English language by drawing academicians, researchers, teachers and educational authorities from all over the world and providing them with the opportunity to exchange an interdisciplinary dialogue on the theoretical as well as purely practical implications of Applied Linguistics and ELT.

Focus on Language Planning

Focus on Language Planning
Author: David F. Marshall
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1991-07-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027284768

This volume begins with an overview of Joshua A. Fishman's extensive work and influence in the field of language planning. The other papers link language planning with weighty issues such as politics, ecology, and national development. More specific papers deal with the problems of political and social intricacies of language planning in the European Community, in India, on the African continent, in Israel, Cuba and Quebec. Two papers deal with corpus planning from a lexicological (Yiddish) and terminological point of view.

Focus on Language and Ethnicity

Focus on Language and Ethnicity
Author: James R. Dow
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 1991-07-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027284776

An impressive collection of theoretical perspectives and empirical data which includes papers on Catalan, Galician, Tagalog, and the minority languages of Kenya. Most of the contributions deal with ethnic minorities in North America: language maintenance and shift and cultural aspects of various language minorities' as well as Judeo-English and Yiddish spoken by children of Jewish immigrants.