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• Title:The languages of Africa and the diaspora : educating for language awareness / edited by Jo Anne Kleifgen and George C. Bond.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Kleifgen, Jo Anne.
  Bond, George C.
  
• Published/Created:Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, ©2009.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: P40.8 .L38 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Language and education.
  Language policy.
  Black people--Languages.
  Linguistic minorities.
  Language awareness.
  
• Description:xv, 295 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
  
• Series:New perspectives on language and education.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781847691347 (hbk : alk. paper)
  184769134X (hbk. : alk. paper)
  9781847691330 (pbk : alk. paper)
  1847691331 (pbk. alk. paper)
  
• Contents:1. Discourses of Linguistic Exceptionalism and Linguistic Diversity in Education / Jo Anne Kleifgen
  Pt. 1. Language and Education in Africa
  Introduction / George C. Bond
  2. African Perspectives on Linguistic Diversity: Implications for Language Policy and Education / Sinfree Makoni and Barbara Trudell
  3. Language in Education in Africa: Can Monolingual Policies Work in Multilingual Societies? / Casmir M. Rubagumya
  4. Perspectives, Challenges and Prospects of African Languages in Education: A Case Study of Kiswahili in Tanzania / Peter C. K. Mtesigwa
  5. Languages, Literacies and Libraries: A View from Africa / Kate Parry
  6. Street Setswana vs. School Setswana: Language Policies and the Forging of Identities in South African Classrooms / Susan E. Cook
  Pt. 2. Language and Education in the Diaspora
  Introduction / Jo Anne Kleifgen
  7. Creole Exceptionalisrn and the (Mis)Education of the Creole Speaker / Michel DeGraff
  8. Political and Cultural Dimensions of Creole as a Regional Language in the French Antilles / Ellen M. Schnepel
  9. Success or Failure? Language, Tracking and Social Stratification of Anglophone Caribbean Students / Shondel Nero
  10. Sierra Leonean and Liberian Students in ESL Programs in the US: The Role of Creole English / Christa de Kleine
  11. Continued Marginalization: The Social Cost of Exceptionalism for African Refugee Learners of English / Doris S. Warriner
  12. Linguistic Profiling, Education and the Law within and beyond the African Diaspora / John Baugh
  13. On Shallow Grammar: African American English and the Critique of Exceptionalism / Arthur K. Spears
  14. African American English and the Public Interest / Walt Wolfram
  15. Rockin' the Classroom: Using Hip Hop as an Educational Tool / Jon A. Yosin.