Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Erling, Elizabeth J.; Reilly, Colin; Rubagumya, Casmir M.; Clegg, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection provides unprecedented insight into the emerging field of multilingual education in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Multilingual education is claimed to have many benefits, amongst which are that it can improve both content and language learning, especially for learners who may have low ability in the medium of instruction and are consequently struggling to learn. The book represents a range of Sub-Saharan school contexts and describes how multilingual strategies have been developed and implemented within them to support the learning of content and language. It looks at multilingual learning from several points of view, including 'translanguaging', or the use of multiple languages - and especially African languages - for learning and language-supportive pedagogy, or the implementation of a distinct pedagogy to support learners working through the medium of a second language.

The book puts forward strategies for creating materials, classroom environments and teacher education programmes which support the use of all of a student's languages to improve language and content learning. The contexts which the book describes are challenging, including low school resourcing, poverty and low literacy in the home, and school policy which militates against the use of African languages in school. The volume also draws on multilingual education approaches which have been successfully carried out in higher resource countries and lend themselves to being adapted for use in SSA. It shows how multilingual learning can bring about transformation in education and provides inspiration for how these strategies might spread and be further developed to improve learning in schools in SSA and beyond.

Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000379471
• Artikelnr.: 61858009

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth J. Erling is an educational research consultant who has worked in international education and English language teaching initiatives at the Open University, UK, the University of Graz and the University of Vienna, Austria. John Clegg is a freelance education consultant and occasional research at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, UK. Casmir M. Rubagumya is a professor of Language Education at St. John's University of Tanzania, Tanzania. Colin Reilly is a senior research officer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures List of tables List of contributors Preface by Casmir M.
Rubagumya Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Multilingual Learning and
Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa Part 1: What Does
Research Tell Us about the Status of Multilingual Learning in SSA? 2.
Research in Multilingual Learning in Africa: Assessing the Effectiveness of
Multilingual Education Programming 3. Researching Kreol Seselwa and its
Role in Education in the Pursuit of Educational Equity in the Seychelles 4.
Classroom Talk in Ghanaian Upper Primary Schools: Understanding
English-Only, Teacher-Dominant Practices Part 2: Multilingual Learning in
Pre-Primary, Primary and Secondary Schools: Lessons Learned 5.
Apprenticeships in Meaning: Transforming Opportunities for Oral and Written
Language Learning in the Early Years 6. Vignette: Our Experiences of
Enhancing the Quality of Early Childhood Education in Rural Cameroon and
Kenya by Drawing on Local Languages 7. Multilingual Learning in Anglophone
Sub-Saharan Africa: How to Help Children Use All their Languages to Learn
8. Vignette: Implementing Language Supportive Pedagogy to Support Content
Learning in Tanzania 9. Creating Translanguaging Inquiry Spaces in
Bilingual Classrooms 10. Vignette: Using the Community to Foster
English-Kiswahili Bilingualism in Kenya Part 3: Multilingual Resource
Development and Teacher Education 11. Multilingual and Language-Supportive
Teaching in Rwandan Learning Materials 12. Translanguaging, Multimodality,
and Authorship: Cultivating Creativity and Critical Literacies through
Multilingual Education in Tanzania 13. Vignette: Creating Multilingual
Resources as Part of Teacher Education in Uganda 14. Processes of Pedagogic
Change: Integrating Subject and Language Learning through Teacher Education
Index