34.3471, FYI: Webinar 27 November 2023: Forging new language policies in Cameroon

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Subject: 34.3471, FYI: Webinar 27 November 2023: Forging new language policies in Cameroon

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Date: 16-Nov-2023
From: Bert van Pinxteren [bert.van.pinxteren at upcmail.nl]
Subject: Webinar 27 November 2023: Forging new language policies in Cameroon


Save the date: Monday 27 November webinar, 15:00 - 16:30 CET
(Amsterdam, Yaoundé) (this is 10 am in New York; 2 pm Accra and
London; 4 pm Johannesburg; 5 pm Nairobi).

Presenter: Dr Seraphin Kamdem, SOAS, University of London (UK)

This webinar is the last this year of the series organised by the
Edinburgh Circle on the Promotion of African Languages together with
the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. See abstract below.

Zoom link (registration not necessary): https://universiteitleiden.zoo
m.us/j/63863239013?pwd=THNraXpKM3U5cXRIOU1HSDAvZDM3UT09
Meeting ID: 638 6323 9013. Passcode: pAkt*fW1

Enjoy,

Bert

Cameroon: 273 local languages, French, English, German, Spanish,
CamPidgin, and many others all together; Forging new multilingual
language policies

Cameroon is considered by many as ‘Africa in miniature’ because of its
high diversity in terms of its natural landscape and geography, its
human composition, and especially the many languages making up its
multilingual landscape. However, the language policies borne out of a
colonial agenda of division and exploitation ensure that the local
languages are excluded as languages of teaching from the education
system and from most of the public domains and spaces.

But how has the implementation of language policies inherited from
colonial times impacted the evolution of local languages in their use
in education and public communication?

After giving a brief overview of the multilingual ‘ecosystem’ of
Cameroon, this presentation will provide an account of the development
in language policies in Cameroon, while examining critically the
challenges faced in the actual implementation of some of those
policies. The presenter will also provide some information on some
recent grassroots efforts, educational changes, and advocacy work that
are trying to bring about some significant changes in the Cameroonian
educational sectors, in a bid to bring about more linguistic justice
and more empowerment of local languages so that they can better
fulfill their necessary roles as tools and resources for sustainable
development, and for an education system that does not perpetuate the
declining intergenerational transmission of local languages and
cultures.

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Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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