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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"official language"”.
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Language contact in two border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana. Lexical borrowings from French, English and African languages
… border community where English and French are official state languages and Dagara is the shared local language. Dagara is a language spoken by about 1,400,000 people in the Northwestern corner of Ghana, the Southwestern part of Burkina Faso and the Northeastern part of Côte d’Ivoire. This …
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An analysis of code switching in the Namibian parliament
… further interpreted using Myers-Scotton’s Matrix Language Frame Model (MLF) and the Markedness Model (MM). Although English is the official language in Namibia, the parliamentarians still make use of other languages in the parliamentary discourse which leads to code switching. Code switching in …
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Legal Translation and Terminology in the Irish Free State, 1922-1937
… of translations, as the position of the Irish language in the Republic of Ireland is a unique one. Not only is Irish an official language of the European Union, but it enjoys constitutional status as the National and First Official language of the Republic of Ireland, with Article 25.4.6º of …
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Étude Descriptive et Comparative du Programme de Français au Nigeria et en Saskatchewan
Teaching and learning a new language in a culturally and linguistically diversified country can be very challenging, and Nigeria is no exception to this. Although the country has declared French as its second official language in 1996 in an official declaration by the late Head of State Sani …
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Notes from the Suburb: the Image of Helsinki in the works by Kjell Westö
… century, trying to re-consider the concept of official language as a reliable means to help different communities to live side by side in the same space.
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Manjako Literacy and Issues in Language of Instruction
… This is due largely to the mismatch between the language at home and the language of instruction in schools. Students in Caio speak Manjako, but classes are taught in Portuguese, the official language, which students do not understand. This makes it more difficult for students to develop literacy …
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"If you have lied about me, you have lied about everything" : Huis Gideon Malherbe : a discussion of the Afrikaans Taal Museum
… of the Afrikaans Taal museum, or Afrikaans Language Museum situated in Paarl, Cape Province. The museum aims to reproduce a history of the Afrikaans language, culminating in the eventual recognition of Afrikaans as an official language. In the thesis though, I argue that by choosing to …
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Towards co-production of technology artefacts with a disabled community: A case study with deaf people and protection of personal information with video relay services
… as opposed to deaf, people communicate in sign language; which most of the population does not comprehend. South Africa currently provides limited video relay services; the Protection of Personal Information Act was recently introduced, and South African Sign Language became the 12th official …
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The EMI content lecturer as a language policy broker
… (Maenhout, 2023). In Flanders, Dutch is the official language, which serves as the standard medium of education at all levels. Now heavily protected, Dutch’s role as an academic language is the result of a sociolinguistic and language policy shift throughout the 20th century, when higher …
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The Relationship Between English Language Test Scores Among Nigerian High School Students And Teacher Beliefs About Language Teaching And Their Classroom Practices
<p>English language mastery is important to the academic achievement of high school students in Nigeria. As the official language of instruction in multi linguistic Nigerian schools, proficiency in English language is essential for the academic success of students in high schools. The purpose of …
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L’étude du Français comme matière dans un contexte anglophone : Le cas de trois Établissements postsecondaires au Ghana
The French language is the fifth most spoken language in the world and the fourth most used language on the Internet, with over 300 million speakers in the world and 132 million French learners. In addition to this, Africa is home to 59 % of daily French speakers, according to the Organisation …
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Language Planning and Education: The Case of Namibia
… assumptions underlying the Namibian English-only language policy stated in Article 3(1) of The Constitution of the Republic of Namibia (1990). The document stipulates educational provision for Namibian learners who belong to multilingual, ethnolinguistic and socio-economic groups. Since this …
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The Sierra Leone Creole Language: Exploring the Influences of Sierra Leone Creole Language in English and Native Languages
The Sierra Leone Creole language is a vibrant and evolving language that has a significant influence as a Lingual Franka spoken by a substantial portion of the Sierra Leoneans among the numerous languages in the country. It is a crucial point for understanding the complex dynamic of Creole language …
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Prevalence of traditional Chinese medicine and other complementary and alternative medicine use among Chinese cancer patients in British Columbia, Canada
… status (p = 0.040), and reporting a non-official language most frequently used at home (p = 0.018). Following multivariate analysis, it was found that prior CAM use (p < 0.001), lower income (p = 0.043), and immigrant status (p = 0.030) were associated with TCM/CAM use. Conclusion: …
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Irish as Symptom: Language, Ideology and Praxis in the Post/Colony
… about the rightful (non-)place of the Irish language in post/colonial society. It is a tautological narrative because the apparent unfitness of Irish for the exigencies of postmodern life both explains its disappearance and prevents its full revival (i.e., Irish is outmoded because it is …
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A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Dzongkha: Variation inFinal Nasals and Rhotics
… sociolinguistic analysis of Dzongkha (Bhutan’s official language), as spoken by residents of the capital Thimphu, investigates variation and change in two salient and traditional linguistic features: syllable-final nasals (N) and postvocalic rhotics (R). Thimphu is Bhutan’s central location for …
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Teachers Without Borders: Exploring Experiences, Transitions, and Identities of Refugee Women Teachers from Yugoslavia
… their education, knowing or learning the official language, and contributing to Canadian society and the economy. The findings challenge the image of a victimized and submissive refugee woman, and bring to the centre of discourse the image of the refugee woman as a skilled professional who …
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"Lack, Loss and Displacement: Renarrativizing ""Chineseness"" Through the Aesthetics of Southeast Asian Literature and Film"
… purity, and destabilizing the function of the official language; and finally, by analyzing the influence the diaspora on culture history, a better understanding of the structures of diasporic experience can be concluded within the larger discourse of globalization and transnationalism. This …
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Dialect variation in a cross-border language: a sociolinguistic study of Silozi in Zambia and Namibia
… speakers (Luyi) in Barotseland. Today the language is spoken by over 700 000 people in Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Angola and Zimbabwe collectively. Of the wealth of scholarship on the Malozi and their language, most focused on development and structure. Silozi dialect variation is yet to be …
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