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Manuel, Nicolau Nkiawete.

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Language and literacy policies in sub-saharan Africa: Towards a bilingual language education policy in Angola.

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Title/Author:	Language and literacy policies in sub-saharan Africa: Towards a bilingual language education policy in Angola./
Author:	Manuel, Nicolau Nkiawete.
Description:	303 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-12A(E).
Subject:	Language. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3717404
ISBN:	9781321968736

Language and literacy policies in sub-saharan Africa: Towards a bilingual language education policy in Angola.
Manuel, Nicolau Nkiawete.

Language and literacy policies in sub-saharan Africa: Towards a bilingual language education policy in Angola. - 303 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington State University, 2015.

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Recently the Angolan government piloted a new language policy that will introduce six African languages as media of instruction into the school system from first through third grade. Using Fairclough's critical discourse analysis three dimensional frameworks, Foucault's discourse insights and the theoretical tools developed in linguistic anthropology, this study conducted a discursive and linguistic analysis of Angolan language policy discourses. The study conceptualized language education policy as involving struggles, negotiations, and compromise-- language policy as a hegemonic, symbolic, and discursive act that is socially, historically, and politically situated and involving various actors and social agents. The purpose of this study was to question and problematize the above mentioned language policy and examine the attitudes, beliefs, ideologies, and discursive practices of a variety of social agents including parents, students, teachers, administrators and policy-makers; and the socio-historical conditions that have shaped this policy. Another purpose of this study was, to use the findings and the insights from best practices in second language and bilingual pedagogy to propose alternative avenues for the ongoing language education reform. The findings demonstrated that the various cultural and discursive practices are dynamic, locally, and contextually situated.

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Language and literacy policies in sub-saharan Africa: Towards a bilingual language education policy in Angola.
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