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Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa

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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.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date Australia
July 2nd, 2021
Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Contributors
  • Edited by Casmir M. Rubagumya
  • Edited by Colin Reilly
  • Edited by Elizabeth J. Erling
  • Edited by John Clegg
Illustrations
19 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 37 Halftones, black and white; 41 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
22
ISBN-13
9780367463533
Product ID
34510152

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