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Routledge Revivals: Language in Tanzania (1980) book cover

1st Edition

Routledge Revivals: Language in Tanzania (1980)

Edited By Edgar C. Polomé, C. P. Hill Copyright 1980
444 Pages
by Routledge

444 Pages
by Routledge

444 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1980, Language in Tanzania presents a comprehensive overview of the Survey of Language Use and Language Teaching in Eastern Africa. Using extensive research carried out by an interdisciplinary group of international and local scholars, the survey also covers Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia. The book represents one of the most in-depth sociolinguistic studies carried... Read more

Foreword, (N.A Kuhanga)

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Languages of Tanzania

1. The Languages of Tanzania, (Edgar C. Polome)

2. The Bantu Language of East Africa: A Lexicostatistical Survey, (Derek Nurse and Gerard Philippson)

3. The Nilotic Languages of Tanzania, (Christopher Ehret)

4. Swahili in Tanzania, (Edgar C. Polome)

Part II: Language Use in Tanzania

5. Tanzania: A Socio-linguistic Perspective, (Edgar C. Polome)

6. The Ecology of Tanzanian National Language Policy, (Mohamed H. Abdulaziz)

7. Language Use among Ilala Residents, (H.D. Barton)

8. Library Users and their Reading Preferences, (C.P. Hill)

9. The Use of Language in the Law Courts in Tanzania, (Douglas Kavugha and Donald Bobb)

Part III: Language in Education

10. The Historical Background to National Education in Tanzania, (John White)

11. Language Teaching in Primary Schools, (Fulgens Mbunda and David Brown)

12. Language Teaching in Secondary Schools, (Fulgens Mbunda, C.J. Brumfit, D. Constable and C.P. Hill)

13. Language Teaching in Higher Education, (W. Whitley, D. Constable and G. Mhina)

14. Some Developments in Language and Education in Tanzania Since 1969, (C.P. Hill)

Index

Biography

Edgar C. Polome is Christie and Stanley E. Adams Jr. Centennial Professor, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin.

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