1st Edition
Bridges and Barriers Language in African Education and Development
By Eddie Williams
Copyright 2006
278 Pages
by
Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
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Recent decades have seen sub-Saharan Africa decline in both economic and human terms. The rich North has responded with a barrage of well-publicized initiatives, from pop concerts to international commitments on debt relief, aid, trade and good governance. Among the complex of factors necessary to sustain economic and human development, education receives little media coverage, although it is... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Malawi and Zambia — The Background; Chapter 3 Reading in First and Additional Languages; Chapter 4 The Reading Tests; Chapter 5 Results of the English Reading Tests; Chapter 6 Results of the African Language Reading Tests; Chapter 7 Individual Reading Sessions; Chapter 8 The Language Dilemma in African Schools; Chapter 9 Conclusion; envois Envois;
Biography
Eddie Williams has worked on language and literacy projects in many African countries, and published widely on language policy, development and reading in multilingual contexts. Until retiring, he was professor of Applied Linguistics at Bangor University, Wales, prior to which he worked at the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Reading.
