Multilingual education for Africa: Concepts and practices |
Editors: Russell H Kaschula and H Ekkehard Wolff |
R490 |
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Dedicated to the memory of Neville Alexander, Multilingual education for Africa: Concepts and practices, opens with a tribute to this South African who was directly engaged in advocacy around issues of language, multilingualism and literacy.
Edited by Russell H Kaschula and H Ekkehard Wolff, and co-published by Unisa Press and Routledge, the common thread in this book is the exploration of innovative pedagogies in language teaching and language use in education.
The greatest danger facing educators is one of complacency. Whether set in Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, South Africa or elsewhere in Africa, all the chapters in this book emphasise the imperative for educators to revise curricula and teaching methods continuously in order to find the most appropriate ways of teaching and using language in multilingual settings. The chapters in this book place the mother tongue at the centre of learning, while developing the use of exoglossic languages such as English.
The book will be of interest to educators at all levels of the education system. The chapters cover a wide range of topics from the role of dictionaries in second language acquisition through to the use of the mother tongue in language learning within the schooling system, as well as the role of language in higher education.
The book addresses a variety of themes and a number of different languages, mostly from within South Africa, where the academic and political debate on multilingualism, pertaining to territorial distribution, institutional implementation and individual practice, particularly with regard to education, is a constant topic of intellectual exchange.
Prof Russell H Kaschula is the incumbent of the NRF SARChI Chair for Intellectualisation of African Languages, Multilingualism and Education in the School of Languages and Literatures at Rhodes University.
Prof H Ekkehard Wolff, Universität Leipzig, is Visiting Professor to the NRF SARChI Chair: Intellectualisation of African Languages, Multilingualism and Education, School of Languages and Literatures, Rhodes University.
*Compiled by Sharon Farrell
Publish date: 2018-07-13 00:00:00.0