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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Main Author: Bruno Maurer
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Language:English
Published: ACEDLE 2010-04-01
Series:Recherches en didactique des langues et des cultures
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rdlc/2036
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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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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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