34.954, FYI: African Languages as Medium of Instruction in higher education: what has happened after Prah?

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-954. Sat Mar 18 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.954, FYI: African Languages as Medium of Instruction in higher education: what has happened after Prah?

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From: Bert van Pinxteren [afrilang at outlook.com]
Subject: African Languages as Medium of Instruction in higher education: what has happened after Prah?

Webinar on Monday, 27 February, via zoom. 16:00 - 17:30 CEST (starting
time is 10 AM New York time). Talk given by Dr Bert van Pinxteren,
guest researcher, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Zoom link
via https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2023/03/african-langua
ges-as-medium-of-instruction-in-higher-education-what-has-happened-aft
er-prah

For decades, a generation of African and Africanist scholars has been
arguing the need for using African languages in domains such as
education. One of the most articulate of these is Prah, who has argued
that sustainable development will remain an illusion if African
languages are not used in more domains. However, progress has been
slow at best.

This webinar will examine some of Prah’s proposals and the advances in
research and theory that have been made since then. It will discuss
some of the limitations of approaches such as ‘translanguaging’ and
seeing ‘language as spoken’; it will outline recent theoretical
advances in seeing language as designed versus as discerned. It will
show the potential of analysing the evolution of enrolment in
education. This will expose the fiction that African educational
systems can expand indefinitely using former colonial languages as
medium of instruction.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

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