34.2484, FYI: Webinar 28 August: African Languages as Medium of Instruction - the case of Nigeria

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Subject: 34.2484, FYI: Webinar 28 August: African Languages as Medium of Instruction - the case of Nigeria

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Date: 14-Aug-2023
From: Bert van Pinxteren [afrilang at outlook.com]
Subject: Webinar 28 August: African Languages as Medium of Instruction - the case of Nigeria


Webinar time: 16:00 - 17:30 CEST (Berlin, Johannesburg) (this is 10 am
in New York; 2 pm Accra; 3 pm Lagos, London; 5 pm Nairobi).
Zoom link (registration not necessary): https://universiteitleiden.zoo
m.us/j/63863239013?pwd=THNraXpKM3U5cXRIOU1HSDAvZDM3UT09
Meeting ID: 638 6323 9013. Passcode: pAkt*fW1

Presenter: Prof Dr Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, University of Ilorin, Nigeria

The sociolinguistic profile of most African nations is both
multiglossic, a precolonial legacy, and diglossic, a colonial legacy
that has proved enduring. However, individual African societies have
navigated the ensuing sociolinguistic conflict in different ways. This
webinar examines the situation in Nigeria, the duels among the
indigenous languages, and between them and the dominant colonial
language, English.

Congruent with these duels is the mother tongue as medium issue, and
the related triadic contest between desirability, necessity and
viability. The webinar identifies two strategic indices in this
sociolinguistic duel – the development index and the affective index –
and five related questions:

* Development – is the current diglossic situation truly enabling or
disabling?
* Agency – who are the proponents and opponents, beneficiaries and
victims?
* Policy – is this proactive/reactive, radical/conservative, enabling
or disabling?
* Practicality and Contingency – what are the optimality conditions
and the challenges?
* Prognosis - what prospects exist in the immediate and in the long
run for the duelling languages?’

This is a webinar in the series organised by the Edinburgh Circle on
the Promotion of African languages together with the Leiden University
Centre for Linguistics.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Language Family(ies): Sukur Group



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