Éléments de réflexion pour une didactique du plurilinguisme en Afrique francophone
In sub-Saharan Africa, the question of the didactics of multilingualism is very different from that which is currently under debate in Europe. The absence of learners' first languages in the educational systems often leads to monolingualism, with schools working in a European language, either F...
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description | In sub-Saharan Africa, the question of the didactics of multilingualism is very different from that which is currently under debate in Europe. The absence of learners' first languages in the educational systems often leads to monolingualism, with schools working in a European language, either French or English depending on their former colonial ties. As such, constructing of plurilingualism at school requires first the emergence of African languages and therefore, the construction of a didactics of these languages as first languages, a challenge which the educational systems have not yet really taken up. |
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spellingShingle | Bruno Maurer Éléments de réflexion pour une didactique du plurilinguisme en Afrique francophone Recherches en didactique des langues et des cultures literacy bi-plurilingualism Africa didactics of first languages |
title | Éléments de réflexion pour une didactique du plurilinguisme en Afrique francophone |
title_full | Éléments de réflexion pour une didactique du plurilinguisme en Afrique francophone |
title_fullStr | Éléments de réflexion pour une didactique du plurilinguisme en Afrique francophone |
title_full_unstemmed | Éléments de réflexion pour une didactique du plurilinguisme en Afrique francophone |
title_short | Éléments de réflexion pour une didactique du plurilinguisme en Afrique francophone |
title_sort | elements de reflexion pour une didactique du plurilinguisme en afrique francophone |
topic | literacy bi-plurilingualism Africa didactics of first languages |
url | https://journals.openedition.org/rdlc/2036 |
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