Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa
About this ebook
The book puts forward strategies for creating materials, classroom environments and teacher education programmes which support the use of all of a student’s languages to improve language and content learning. The contexts which the book describes are challenging, including low school resourcing, poverty and low literacy in the home, and school policy which militates against the use of African languages in school. The volume also draws on multilingual education approaches which have been successfully carried out in higher resource countries and lend themselves to being adapted for use in SSA. It shows how multilingual learning can bring about transformation in education and provides inspiration for how these strategies might spread and be further developed to improve learning in schools in SSA and beyond.
Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com.
About the author
Elizabeth J. Erling is an educational research consultant who has worked in international education and English language teaching initiatives at the Open University, UK, the University of Graz and the University of Vienna, Austria.
John Clegg is a freelance education consultant and occasional research at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, UK.
Casmir M. Rubagumya is a professor of Language Education at St. John's University of Tanzania, Tanzania.
Colin Reilly is a senior research officer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK.
