1st Edition
Multilingual Learning: Assessment, Ideologies and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa
1. Introduction
Colin Reilly, Feliciano Chimbutane, John Clegg, Casmir Rubagumya and Elizabeth J. Erling
Part 1 Assessment
2. Heteroglossic, Multimodal Classroom Discourses and Monolingual, Monomodal Assessment in Namibian Primary Science Teaching: A Case Study
Carolyn McKinney and Beatha Set
3. Legitimising Fluid Multilingual Practices: A Challenge for Formal Education Worldwide
Friederike Lüpke and Ibrahima Abdoul Hayou Cissé
4. Vignette: Using Flexible Bilingual Academic Content Assessments in the United States: Lessons Learned
Alexis A. Lopez
5. Assessment Considerations for Multilingual Students in an English-Medium Environment: The PUMI Decision-Making Process and Translanguaging
Kate Mahoney
6. Vignette: The Role of Home Language in Supporting Adolescent Girls’ Learning in Rural Zimbabwe
Liz Chamberlain
Part 2 Attitudes and Community Initiatives
7. Ideologies of English and Language of Instruction in Ghana: Educator Perceptions and Pressures
Elizabeth J. Erling, Sarah Jane Mukherjee, Kimberly Safford and Fritz Makafui Tugli
8. Language of Instruction Attitudes in Rural Tanzania: Parental Discourses and Valued Linguistic Capabilities
Danny Foster
9. Vignette: Community Initiatives for the Use of Maa in Education in Kenya
Phyllis W. Mwangi, Gatitu Kiguru and Purity M. Nthiga
10. Community Perspectives on the Introduction of Mother Tongue-Based Bilingual Education in Obolo, Nigeria
Maria J. Aaron
11. Challenges for Gambian Primary Schools Aiming to Enhance Literacy Through the Use of National Languages
Clyde Ancarno, Baboucarr Bouy and Momodou Jeng
Part 3 Policy: Factors in Development and Implementation
12. Vignette: "But Exams Are Not Given in Ngoni": The Place of Local Languages in Tanzania’s Primary Education
Gastor Mapunda
13. Vignette: Language-in-Education Policy and STEM Teaching and Learning in Tanzanian Schools
Opanga David
14. EMI Policy in Practice: Multilingual Mathematics Lessons in a Government Secondary School in Rural Rwanda
Rachel Bowden, Jean Claude Dushimimana, Innocente Uwineza and Alphonse Uworwabayeho
15. Vignette: Sheng as a Valuable Linguistic Resource in Education in Kenya
Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo
16. Vignette: Researching Language Education Policy in Namibia
Soili Norro
17. Vignette: Changing Language-in-Education Policies in Malawi: Consultation and Implementation
Colin Reilly, Jean Josephine Chavula, Vera Kamtukule and Rajendra Chetty
18. Multilingual Pedagogies in Mozambican Bilingual Schools: The Challenge of Decolonising Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices
Feliciano Chimbutane
Biography
Colin Reilly is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Stirling.
Feliciano Chimbutane is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at Eduardo Mondlane University.
John Clegg is a freelance education consultant based in the UK.
Casmir Rubagumya is a Professor of Language Education at St John’s University of Tanzania.
Elizabeth J. Erling is a Professor of English Language Teaching Research and Methodology at the University of Education Upper Austria and Elise-Richter Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Vienna.
