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Details for article 7 of 15 found articles
| Title: |
Language choice |
| Author: |
Fordham, Paul |
| Appeared in: |
Language and education |
| Paging: | Volume 8 (1994) nr. 1-2 pages 65-68 |
| Year: |
1994 |
| Contents: |
Language choice for literacy must have regard to: mother tongue; language of first sight; local lingua francas and any readily accessible 'world language'. Relations between these are highly complex, culturally and politically. UNESCO classifies the contexts for choice into four types: no linguistic majority (e.g. Nigeria); a locally developed lingua franca (e.g. Swahili); a predominant indigenous language (e.g. Quechua); and multiple languages with different literary traditions. Language choice has to be made at several political levels from the local to the national. Three common but false assumptions are noted: multi-lingualism as a 'barrier' to development; the 'necessity' of a world language for all; the 'permanence' of language patterns. Complexity makes it likely that the issues in choice are as varied as existing language patterns. There is likely to be a multiplicity of answers given and, as experience in francophone Africa shows, these may well change over time. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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