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| kenyan speaking english: English in Kenya Or Kenyan English? Natalia Budohoska, 2014 Is Kenyan English a new postcolonial variety of English developing in a multilingual environment of permanent language contact? Analysis of lexical, morphological and syntactic features in the International Corpus of English for East Africa (ICE-EA) is accompanied by a sociolinguistic perspective and summarized employing Schneider's Dynamic Model. |
| kenyan speaking english: Exploring Ethnically-Marked Varieties of Kenyan English Billian Khalayi Otundo, 2018 On a quest to satisfy the need for acoustic documentation of pronunciation norms of Standard Kenyan English, there were predominant deviations which identify users of Ethnically Marked Varieties of Kenyan English. The study documents findings on tenets of Ethnic Markedness by two groups that revealed maximally distinct pronunciation. Data collection and analysis encompassed systematic recording, annotation and acoustic scrutiny. Moreover, attitudes that other Kenyans hold toward the selected varieties are exposed. The study is a primary source in the genres of World Englishes, speech science, prosody and interlanguage pronunciation. |
| kenyan speaking english: A Critical Introduction to Phonetics Ken Lodge, 2009-01-01 A new stance on the presentation of basic phonetic skills for students of linguistics, using examples drawn from a wide-range of languages. |
| kenyan speaking english: Kenyan English Alfred Buregeya, 2021-09-20 The book is an in-depth description of Kenyan English phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, lexis and semantics, and discourse features. It also provides a historical and cultural background to its development and a survey of previous work |
| kenyan speaking english: Accentedness Isn’T Abnormal Speech; It’S a Badge of Identity Naphtali M. W. Makora, 2014-02-17 This research is on foreign accents. The researcher-authora non-native fluent English speaker discovered through a lit-review that all people speak in accent. This research focused on attitudinal self-accented speech perceptions of Kisii-Kenyans in the USA and further investigated what North American English (NAE) speakers perceptions are toward the Kisii-Kenyan accentedness. Two groups participated in this study. First, college educated Kisii-Kenyan adults, and second, NAE speakers participated in the study. A likert scale type of questionnaire was used to collect data from the first group and was analyzed for result. The second group listened to speech clips from two Kisii-Kenyan volunteers and hence assessed their accentedness and intelligibility. The findings revealed Kisii-Kenyans perceptions of themselves as confident and positive in their accented English speech. On the American perceptions it is not conclusive, and the assessments do not reveal any validity of judging Kisii-Kenyans as incomprehensible and unintelligible. |
| kenyan speaking english: Unsettled Janet McIntosh, 2016-04-26 Honorable Mention for the 2018 American Ethnological Society Senior Book Prize Honorable Mention for the 2017 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing presented by the American Anthropological Association In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending decades of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated in fear of losing their fortunes, many stayed. But over the past decade, protests, scandals, and upheavals have unsettled families with colonial origins, reminding them that their belonging is tenuous. In this book, Janet McIntosh looks at the lives and dilemmas of settler descendants living in post-independence Kenya. From clinging to a lost colonial identity to pronouncing a new Kenyan nationality, the public face of white Kenyans has undergone changes fraught with ambiguity. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews, McIntosh focuses on their discourse and narratives to ask: What stories do settler descendants tell about their claim to belong in Kenya? How do they situate themselves vis-a-vis the colonial past and anti-colonial sentiment, phrasing and re-phrasing their memories and judgments as they seek a position they feel is ethically acceptable? McIntosh explores contradictory and diverse responses: moral double consciousness, aspirations to uplift the nation, ideological blind-spots, denials, and self-doubt as her respondents strain to defend their entitlements in the face of mounting Kenyan rhetorics of ancestry. |
| kenyan speaking english: God's Best Is Me Dr. Jeanne Sheffield, 2013-02-05 Dr. Jeanne Sheffields life has transitioned from a professional performer in show business in variety television in Los Angeles to her exciting, always challenging position as founder, author and teacher of Southern Grace Place USA located in NW Washington, DC. If you remember the days of variety television of the hit TV series Here Come The Brides, you saw her as David Souls girl friend or remembered her as one of the original Dean Martin Gold Diggers. She has fond memories of being a regular cast member of the Glen Campbell Good Time Hour and the Mack Davis Show and the Andy Williams Show. Today Dr. Jeanne wears many hats as inspirational singer, composer, voice, piano, character and etiquette teacher, and author. Her two new books, Gods Best Is Me, Living To Please God and Gods Best Is Your Child, her collaborating Home School Moms Teachers Guide can be purchased at www.authorhouse.com, www.amazon.com and Dr. Jeannes web site www.SouthernGracePlaceUSA.com. Dr. Jeannes interest in the development of Americas youth led to a creative position as columnist for the Collierville Independent Paper and the Southaven Press in both the Tennessee and Mississippi regions. She was affectionately known as Our Miss Manners in both publications. She has been featured as one of Americas outstanding etiquette teachers in Memphis Womans Magazine as well as Parent Magazine. Dr. Jeanne holds her Masters in Christian Counseling and her Doctorate in Theology from Jacksonville Theological Seminary in Jacksonville, FL. She originally created this work book as a self-enrichment program because of her concerns for inner city students who were greatly lacking in social skills, etiquette and character values. She felt compelled to develop a study that would address all of these vital issues and a dynamic course that would keep their attention. Over time she developed 25 topics including My Appearance, Eye to Eye Contact, Modesty Is In, Attitude = Gratitude, Communication Skills, Table Setting and Manners, Jealousy, Tactfulness, Formal Dining.... just to name a few..... Gods Best is Me offers several studies jam-packed with inner-active role playing of the worlds behavior and the right behavior, scripture memorization, character values, social skills, open discussions, games, plus several original praise songs written by Dr .Jeanne. Gods Best Is Me points our children and youth away from the many destructive influences of the world toward a life full of the character and etiquette of Christ. This exceptional 6 week study is a rich transformational foundation every parent will want their child to experience. |
| kenyan speaking english: Kenya Jim Bartell, 2011-01-01 Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Kenya--Provided by publisher. |
| kenyan speaking english: Fluent in 3 Months Benny Lewis, 2014-03-11 Benny Lewis, who speaks over ten languages—all self-taught—runs the largest language-learning blog in the world, Fluent In 3 Months. Lewis is a full-time language hacker, someone who devotes all of his time to finding better, faster, and more efficient ways to learn languages. Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World is a new blueprint for fast language learning. Lewis argues that you don't need a great memory or the language gene to learn a language quickly, and debunks a number of long-held beliefs, such as adults not being as good of language learners as children. |
| kenyan speaking english: Co-Whites Emeka Aniagolu, 2012-07-10 Aniagolu examines the dynamics of race and gender in the history of the United States, concluding that white American women collaborated with white American men as 'Co-Whites' or co-partners in the management and maintenance of white supremacy in the United States. |
| kenyan speaking english: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler, 1917 |
| kenyan speaking english: Growing Up with Languages Claire Thomas, 2012-05-24 Primarily aimed as a practical resource for parents, but also of interest to students and researchers because of its unique content, this book includes recollections of and advice on many of the common issues or dilemmas that arise in multilingual families. |
| kenyan speaking english: Contextualizing Indigenous Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora Ibigbolade Aderibigbe, Alloy Ihuah, Felisters Kripono, 2015-09-04 This volume proposes a wholesale adoption of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) as a paradigm for Africa's renewal and freedom from the whims of foreign interests. These systems, as argued here, involve balancing short-term thinking and immediate gratification with longer-term planning for future generations of Africans and the continent's diaspora. The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with development studies in Africa and its diaspora, as it offers plausible solutions to Africa's chronic developmental problems that can only be provided from within Africa, rather than through the intervention of external third parties. As such, it provides vital contributions to the ongoing search for viable answers to the challenges that Africa faces today. |
| kenyan speaking english: Kenya Pascal Belda, 2006 This guide is the perfect companion for the international business traveller who wants to have the best of both worlds - business and leisure. It offers comprehensive info which is either difficult to find or simply doesn't exist elsewhere. All sections include full contact info (telephone, fax, email, website, postal addresses). |
| kenyan speaking english: Language and Identities Carmen Llamas, 2009-12-18 Language and Identities offers a broad survey of our current state of knowledge on the connections between variability in language use and the construction, negotiation, maintenance and performance of identities at different levels - individual, group, regional and national. It brings together over 20 specially commissioned chapters, written by distinguished international scholars, on a range of topics around the language/identity nexus. The collection deals sequentially with identities at various levels, both social and personal. Using detailed, empirical evidence, the chapters illustrate how the multi-layered, dynamic nature of identities is realised through linguistic behaviour. Several chapters in the volume focus on contexts in which we might expect to observe a foregrounding of factors involved in the definition and delimitation of self and other: for example, cases in which identities may be disputed, changing, blurred, peripheral, or imposed. Such a focus on complex contexts allows clearer insight into the identity-making and -marking functions of language. The collection approaches these topics from a range of perspectives, with contributions from sociolinguists, sociophoneticians, linguistic anthropologists, clinical linguists and forensic linguists. |
| kenyan speaking english: Codeswitching Carol M. Eastman, 1992 The twelve papers featured in this book focus on codeswitching as an urban language-contact phenomenon. Some papers seek to distinguish codeswitching from other contact phenomenon such as borrowing or language mixing, while others look at the effect codeswitching has on one's position in society. The papers discuss such topics as the politics of codeswitching, the role of using more than one language in social identity, attitudes toward multi-language use, and the way codeswitching may occur as a community norm. |
| kenyan speaking english: Ngũgĩ Simon Gikandi, D. Ndirangu Wachanga, 2018 This collection of essays reflects on the life and work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who celebrated his 80th birthday in 2018. Drawing from a wide range of contributors, including writers, critics, publishers and activists, the volume traces the emergence of Ngugi as a novelist in the early 1960s, his contribution to the African culture of letters at its moment of inception, and his global artistic life in the twenty-first century. Here we have both personal and critical reflections on the different phases of the writer's life: there are poems from friends and admirers, commentaries from his co-workers in public theatre in Kenya in the 1970s and 1980s, and from his political associates in the fight for democracy, and contributions on his role as an intellectual of decolonization, as well as his experiences in the global art world. Included also are essays on Ngugi's role outside the academy, in the world of education, community theatre, and activism. In addition to tributes from other authors who were influenced by Ngugi, the collection contains hitherto unknown materials that are appearing in English for the first time. Both a celebration of the writer, and a rethinking of his legacy, this book brings together three generations of Ngugi readers. We have memories and recollections from the people he worked with closely in the 1960s, the students that he taught at the University of Nairobi in the 1970s, his political associates during his exile in the 1980s, and the people who worked with him as he embarked on a new life and career in the United States in the 1990s. First-hand accounts reveal how Ngugi's life and work have intersected, and the multiple forces that have converged to make him one of the greatest writers to come out of Africa in the twentieth century. Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Princeton University. He was editor of the PMLA, the journal of the MLA (the Modern Languages Association) from 2011-2016. He served as the 2nd and 1st president of the MLA in 2017 and 2018 and is the president elect of the association for 2019. Ndirangu Wachanga is Professor of Media Studies and Information Science at the University of Wisconsin. He is also the authorized documentary biographer of Professors Ali A. Mazrui, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Micere Mugo. |
| kenyan speaking english: It's Worth the Sacrifice Valerie Lee, 2014-07-28 Catching a snake in the dorm, being a mother to fifty girls, bartering in the marketplace, handing out food to villagers during the drought, being “bit” by a cheetah, coping with homesickness, and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro were just some of the adventures and challenges Valerie faced as a student missionary at Maxwell Adventist Academy in Kenya. What Valerie didn’t expect during her year abroad was how much she fell in love with her adopted country and how difficult it was to adjust to life once she came back to the States. It’s Worth the Sacrifice chronicles her student missionary (SM) experience and offers advice to those interested in going overseas. Valerie hopes that what she learned will help other SMs while serving and during re-entry. |
| kenyan speaking english: Linguistic Human Rights and Language Policy in the Kenyan Education System Kembo Sure, Nathan Oyori Ogechi, 2008-12-31 This research is aimed at identifying the linguistic and pedagogical challenges experienced by teachers and pupils in Kenyan primary schools where English is used as the medium of instruction from Standard Four. Specifically it is an analysis of classroom discourse in mathematics and science lessons conducted in English and to determine the extent to which language of instruction supports or hinders participation in these verbal exchanges. Language attitudes were also tested to elucidate whether Kenyans support the introduction of English as the medium of teaching in primary school and thereby establishing the acceptability of the language policy. The observation and recording of class lessons covered 26 Standard Four English, Science and Mathematics lessons and 8 Standard Eight Science and Mathematics classes. |
| kenyan speaking english: The Record of Global Economic Development Eric Lionel Jones, 2001-12-21 The Record of Global Economic Development analyses the long-term and current economic forces which promote or impede globalisation, drawing on the experience of economic history to help interpret major trends in modern economies. |
| kenyan speaking english: For You Are a Kenyan Child Kelly Cunnane, 2006 From rooster crow to bedtime, a Kenyan boy plays and visits neighbors all through his village, even though he is supposed to be watching his grandfather's cows. |
| kenyan speaking english: One Day I Will Write About This Place Binyavanga Wainaina, 2011-07-19 *A New York Times Notable Book* *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* *A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year* Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colorful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlor, black mamba bicycle bells, mechanics in Nairobi, the music of Michael Jackson—all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother and sister, Jimmy and Ciru. He could fall in with their patterns, but it would take him a while to carve out his own. In this vivid and compelling debut memoir, Wainaina takes us through his school days, his mother's religious period, his failed attempt to study in South Africa as a computer programmer, a moving family reunion in Uganda, and his travels around Kenya. The landscape in front of him always claims his main attention, but he also evokes the shifting political scene that unsettles his views on family, tribe, and nationhood. Throughout, reading is his refuge and his solace. And when, in 2002, a writing prize comes through, the door is opened for him to pursue the career that perhaps had been beckoning all along. A series of fascinating international reporting assignments follow. Finally he circles back to a Kenya in the throes of postelection violence and finds he is not the only one questioning the old certainties. Resolutely avoiding stereotype and cliché, Wainaina paints every scene in One Day I Will Write About This Place with a highly distinctive and hugely memorable brush. |
| kenyan speaking english: Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi Derese G. Kassa, 2018-12-12 Derese G. Kassa provides an in-depth ethnographic account and analysis of state-refugee relations in Nairobi, Kenya, with a focus on the lived experience of Ethiopian refugees. This book is a timely and remarkable addition to comparative urban studies, African studies, and refugee studies. |
| kenyan speaking english: Language, Identity and Contemporary Society Rajesh Kumar, Om Prakash, 2018-11-30 This book explores the instrumentality of language in constructing identity in contemporary society. The processes of globalization, hyper-mobility, rapid urbanization, and the increasing desire of local populations to be linked to the global community have created a pressing need to reconfigure identity in this new world order. Following the digital revolution, both traditional and new media are dissolving linguistic boundaries. The centrality of language in organizing communities and groups cannot be overstated: our social order is developed alongside our linguistic allegiance, shared narratives, collective memories, and common social history. Keeping in mind the fluidity of identity, the book brings together fourteen chapters providing cultural and social perspectives. The ideas reflected here draw on a range of disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, the politics of language, and linguistic identity. |
| kenyan speaking english: Multilingual Identities in a Global City D. Block, 2005-11-22 Opening with a discussion of the key issues of globalization, migration, multiculturalism, multilingualism and global cities, David Block then turns to four detailed case studies: East Asian students living and working in London; foreign language teachers from France; London's growing Latino community; and second generation South Asian university students. Via these case studies the book explores the ambivalent and multi-layered identities of individuals who have crossed geographical and psychological borders during the course of their lifetimes and settled in London, the quintessential global city. |
| kenyan speaking english: Simplified Swahili Peter M. Wilson, 1979 |
| kenyan speaking english: The African Democracy Muange aa Munguti, 2015-05-21 While Africa accepted to receive democracy, African leaders closed their eyes against the weaknesses of the system. The weakness of the African democracy was the strength of the leaders and those who were prepared to exploit the continent. These prepared the big population to toil for the benefit of a few. African democracy has eaten away the African culture, morals, lifestyle, and languages. African democracy ate the African form of governance, justice, unity, peace, medicine man, music and dance and labeled them primitive. Among the continents on earth, only the African ancestry and languages have been lost and disposed. In African democracies, the promise of prosperity is pegged on foreign languages. It is only in African democracies where every African child must put more than twenty-five years to learn a foreign language to have a future. Only in Africa where 75 percent of the population is insecure in all areas of life and live below the poverty line. It is only in African democracies where among a billion people, none can make a spoon or a simple toothpick. Only African democracies depend on imports, foreign investors, or naturalized citizens (from Asia, Europe, or America) and not the African citizens in industrial development. The world should stand up and save Africa to educate her own children in her languages. Africa has the right to choose from reality, away from mockery. Africa is the only continent that thrives to do away with her languages in pursuit for foreign languages. Africa has the only culture that is demonstrated as archaic and antihuman. Everything that is African is below par compared to that of the rest of the world. Why? Africa is unique; the Africans are a distinct people, and the continent, which is the most wealthy with minerals, is surprisingly with the poorest people on earth. There is a technology gap in Africa. The African democracy is the worst form of governance ever founded by humanity. |
| kenyan speaking english: God's Best Is Your Child Dr. Jeanne Sheffield, 2013-04-17 Be a major part of your childs transformation in just six weeks! Mom, what greater joy could there be for you as a parent than watching your child grow up with strong values, character and good etiquette? For years parents have searched for charm schools and etiquette training to give their children poise and grace hoping that what their kids learn will stick with them and they will come away with a sparkle and a shine. The problem is that these schools and training are only one dimensional. Today, you as a home school parent and teacher have a delightful opportunity to teach your own children and teens character and etiquette with the poise and grace of Christ, as you guide them through a six week study with Gods Best Is Your Child, A Home School Moms Teachers Guide To Etiquette and Character Studies. Your Teachers Guide is specifically designed to collaborate with the students Gods Best Is Me work book offering you inventive and creative ideas to make your classes fun and exciting. This book has all the information you will need with many creative ideas to help you be a great success! You will have so much fun teaching your kids character and etiquette, poise and grace under the guide lines of the Bible with 25 exciting, plus elective topics carefully chosen for their personal development. You will have the freedom to create your own environment, design your own programs including praise and worship music with staging, role playing and etiquette games. Teaching and educating your child or several other children Gods Best Is Me with this well planned collaborative Teachers Guide is nothing less than Amazing Joy! Get ready for a brand new adventure in your Life! |
| kenyan speaking english: Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: Politics, Policies and Practices in a Globalized Society B. Gloria Guzmán Johannessen, 2019-01-14 This volume presents a multinational perspective on the juxtaposition of language and politics. Bringing together an international group of authors, it offers theoretical and historical constructs on bilingualism and bilingual education. It highlights the sociocultural complexities of bilingualism in societies where indigenous and other languages coexist with colonial dominant and other prestigious immigrant languages. It underlines the linguistic diaspora and expansion of English as the world’s lingua franca and their impact on indigenous and other minority languages. Finally, it features models of language teaching and teacher education. This book challenges the existent global conditions of non-dominant languages and furthers the discourse on language politics and policies. It does so by pointing out the need to change the bilingual/multilingual educational paradigm across nations and all levels of educational systems. |
| kenyan speaking english: Why Minorities Play or Don't Play Soccer Kausik Bandyopadhyay, 2013-09-13 Soccer, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has always remained a marker of identities of various sorts. Behind the façade of its obvious entertainment aspect, it has proved to be a perpetuating reflector of nationalism, ethnicity, community or communal identity, and cultural specificity. Naturally therefore, the game is a complex representative of minorities’ status especially in countries where minorities play a crucial role in political, social, cultural or economic life. The question is also important since in many nations success in sports like soccer has been used as an instrument for assimilation or to promote an alternative brand of nationalism. Thus, Jewish teams in pre-Second World War Europe were set up to promote the idea of a muscular Jewish identity. Similarly, in apartheid South Africa, soccer became the game of the black majority since it was excluded from the two principal games of the country – rugby and cricket. In India, on the other hand, the Muslim minorities under colonial rule appropriated soccer to assert their community-identity. The book examines why in certain countries, minorities chose to take up the sport while in others they backed away from participating in the game or, alternatively, set up their own leagues and practised self-exclusion. The book examines European countries like the Netherlands, England and France, the USA, Africa, Australia and the larger countries of Asia – particularly India. This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer and Society. |
| kenyan speaking english: Advances in the Study of Societal Multilingualism Joshua A. Fishman, 2014-10-15 No detailed description available for Advances in the Study of Societal Multilingualism. |
| kenyan speaking english: Writing and Learning in Cross-national Perspective David Foster, 2017-10-03 Despite the increasingly global implications of conversations about writing and learning, U.S. composition studies has devoted little attention to cross-national perspectives on student writing and its roles in wider cultural contexts. Caught up in our own concerns about how U.S. students make the transition as writers from secondary school to postsecondary education, we often overlook the fact that students around the world are undergoing the same evolution. How do the students in China, England, France, Germany, Kenya, or South Africa--the educational systems represented in this collection--write their way into the communities of their chosen disciplines? How, for instance, do students whose mother tongue is not the language of instruction cope with the demands of academic and discipline-specific writing? And in what ways is U.S. students' development as academic writers similar to or different from that of students in other countries? With this collection, editors David Foster and David R. Russell broaden the discussion about the role of writing in various educational systems and cultures. Students' development as academic writers raises issues of student authorship and agency, as well as larger issues of educational access, institutional power relations, system goals, and students' roles in society. The contributors to this collection discuss selected writing purposes and forms characteristic of a specific national education system, describe students' agency as writers, and identify contextual factors--social, economic, linguistic, cultural--that shape institutional responses to writing development. In discussions that bookend these studies of different educational structures, the editors compare U.S. postsecondary writing practices and pedagogies with those in other national systems, and suggest new perspectives for cross-national study of learning/writing issues important to all educational systems. Given the worldwide increase in students entering higher education and the endless need for effective writing across disciplines and nations, the insights offered here and the call for further studies are especially welcome and timely. |
| kenyan speaking english: Language, Youth and Identity in the 21st Century Jacomine Nortier, Bente A. Svendsen, 2015-03-19 This volume explores and compares linguistic practices among young people in linguistically and culturally diverse urban spaces. |
| kenyan speaking english: Media Power, Professionals and Policies Howard Tumber, 2013-04-15 The work of Jeremy Tunstall, one of the founding fathers of British media studies, is the inspiration behind Media Power, Professionals and Policies. In this collection of new work, leading international contributors address the central themes of Tunstall's work; the history, structures and practices of the international media industry, the relationship between media and government, and the sociology of labour in the media industry. |
| kenyan speaking english: Reading and Comprehension in the African Context Wanja Kibui, 2012-12-29 This book makes an important contribution to existing knowledge on the processes of reading and comprehension by identifying the various approaches and corresponding theories. The book is organized in various chapters that cumulatively lead to our entry into the three key areas. Chapter One provides important background to reading as a skill, explaining the hidden dynamics that avoid the process and outcome of reading. Chapter Two deals with comprehension and vocabulary, both very important aspects of the reading process, while Chapter Three focuses on the relationship between reading, remembering and perception. Chapters four and five deal with various ways of assessing comprehension and the role of the reader respectively. |
| kenyan speaking english: Teaching for Joy and Justice Linda Christensen, 2009 Teaching for Joy and Justice is the much-anticipated sequel to Linda Christensen's bestselling Reading, Writing, and Rising Up. Christensen is recognized as one of the country's finest teachers. Her latest book shows why. Through story upon story, Christensen demonstrates how she draws on students' lives and the world to teach poetry, essay, narrative, and critical literacy skills. Teaching for Joy and Justice reveals what happens when a teacher treats all students as intellectuals, instead of intellectually challenged. Part autobiography, part curriculum guide, part critique of today's numbing standardized mandates, this book sings with hope -- born of Christensen's more than 30 years as a classroom teacher, language arts specialist, and teacher educator. Practical, inspirational, passionate: this is a must-have book for every language arts teacher, whether veteran or novice. In fact, Teaching for Joy and Justice is a must-have book for anyone who wants concrete examples of what it really means to teach for social justice. |
| kenyan speaking english: Takemura: Dynamism in African Languages and Litera , 2023-06-27 The book provides novel perspectives towards conceptualisation of African Potentials. It explores diverse and dynamic aspects of linguistic communications in Africa, ranging from convivial multilingual practices to literal and musical arts. The book reflects the diversity and ever-changing dynamism in the African sociolinguistic sphere, that is, metalinguistic discourse in East Africa, sociolinguistic dynamism in Angola, conflict reconciliation speech performed in Ethiopia, and syncretic urban linguistic code called Sheng in Kenya. The volume also explores multi-dimensional relationships between literary arts and the society by investigating such topics as traditional Swahili poetry, publication of children books in Benin, and transformation and reconstruction of Yoruba popular music. The book elucidates dynamic process of creation through mixing of traditional and foreign elements of culture. |
| kenyan speaking english: Managing Displacement Jennifer Hyndman, 2000 |
| kenyan speaking english: Politics, Language, and Thought David D. Laitin, 1977-05 When the Somali Republic received independence, its parliamentary government decided to adopt three official languages: English, Italian, and Arabic—all languages of foreign contact. Since the vast majority of the nation's citizens spoke a single language, Somali, which then had no written form, this decision made governing exceedingly difficult. Selecting any one language was equally problematic, however, because those who spoke the official language would automatically become the privileged class. Twelve years after independence, a military government was able to settle the acrimonious controversy by announcing that Somali would be the official language and Latin the basic script. It was hoped that this choice would foster political equality and strengthen the national culture. Politics, Language, and Thought is an exploration of how language and politics interrelate in the Somali Republic. Using both historical and experimental evidence, David D. Laitin demonstrates that the choice of an official language may significantly affect the course of a country's political development. Part I of Laitin's study is an attempt to explain why the parliamentary government was incapable of reaching agreement on a national script and to assess the social and political consequences of the years of nondecision. Laitin shows how the imposition of nonindigenous languages produced inequalities which eroded the country's natural social basis of democracy. Part 2 attempts to relate language to political thought and political culture. Analyzing interviews and role-playing sessions among Somali bilingual students, Laitin demonstrates that the impact of certain political concepts is quite different when expressed in different languages. He concludes that the implications of choosing a language are far more complex than previously thought, because to change the language of a people is to change the ways they think and act politically. |
| kenyan speaking english: The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism Steven G. Kellman, Natasha Lvovich, 2021-09-30 Though it might seem as modern as Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, and Vladimir Nabokov, translingual writing - texts by authors using more than one language or a language other than their primary one - has an ancient pedigree. The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism aims to provide a comprehensive overview of translingual literature in a wide variety of languages throughout the world, from ancient to modern times. The volume includes sections on: translingual genres - with chapters on memoir, poetry, fiction, drama, and cinema ancient, medieval, and modern translingualism global perspectives - chapters overseeing European, African, and Asian languages Combining chapters from lead specialists in the field, this volume will be of interest to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in investigating the vibrant area of translingual literature. Attracting scholars from a variety of disciplines, this interdisciplinary and pioneering Handbook will advance current scholarship of the permutations of languages among authors throughout time. |
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