Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa (Routledge Series in Language and Content Integrated Teaching & Plurilingual Education)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

22 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000379471

Related ISBNs:

9780367677527, 9780367463533, 9781003028383

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

12/22/21

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Elizabeth J. Erling, John Clegg, Casmir M. Rubagumya and Colin Reilly

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Education, Language Arts

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Elizabeth J. Erling

Edited by:

John Clegg

Edited by:

Casmir M. Rubagumya

Edited by:

Colin Reilly