Kenyan English (eBook, PDF)

Domains of Use, Forms, and Users' Attitudes
Redaktion: Michieka, Martha M.; Mecha, Evans Gesura

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Kenyan English: Domains of Use, Forms, and Users' Attitudesfocuses on the unique issues that concern language researchers in Kenya and elsewhere. Edited by Martha M. MichiekaandEvans Gesura Mecha, the collection examines the English language forms and usages to describe the reality of Kenyan English use. The contributors address questions such as: What are the characteristics that distinguish Kenyan English from other national varieties? How is English taught, and what impact does that kind of teaching have on learner proficiency? What is the place of English in mass media, in politics, in the churches, and in multilingual homes? The contributors, all experienced language practitioners based in Kenya or currently conducting language-related research in Kenya, bring fresh perspectives to the topic at hand and give readers a glance into contexts that have not yet been addressed in this way. They highlight the sociolinguistic reality of the English language in present-day Kenya and raise questions that will prompt further research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978780095
• Artikelnr.: 74847330

Autorenporträt

Martha M. Michieka is professor of linguistics at East Tennessee State University. Evans Gesura Mecha is senior lecturer of theoretical linguistics at Kisii University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Kenyan English or Kenyan Englishes?
Martha. M. Michieka and Evans Gesura Mecha
Chapter 1: An Empirical Study of Regional Variations in the Kenyan English
Vowel System
Peter Nyansera Otieno
Chapter 2: The Kenyan English Accent: Segmental Features
Joshua Itumo and Martin C. Njoroge
Chapter 3: Error or flavor: An Account of the Lexical, Phrasal, and
Syntactic Character of Fossilize Errors in Kenyan English Grammar
Ann Hildah Gatakaa Kinyua
Chapter: 4: Teaching English in Kenya: Reforms and Challenges in Early
Years Education
Benard Omenge Nyatuka,
Chapter 5: English across the Curriculum in Kenya: The Reality in Primary
School Classrooms and Implications on Epistemic Access
Peter Mose
Chapter 6: English Language Proficiency Among Secondary School Learners in
Kenya: A Case of One Kenyan Rural Sub County
Daniel Nyongesa Khaemba and Eucabeth Ong'au- Mong'are
Chapter 7: Patterns of English Use in Kiswahili-Based Kenyan Mass Media
Sarah Marjie
Chapter 8: The English Language and Media