Published In

Africa's Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches

ISBN

9780190256340

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2017

Subjects

Language and languages -- West Africa, Literacy, Language revival, Atlantic languages

Abstract

This paper reports on the applicability of a pedagogical model for use in West Africa drawn from adult literacy practices in the United States. It proposes bridging the gap between linguists, teachers, and community organizers, and building on the ethnographic skills of language documenters. One increasingly important goal of language documentation has been “creating and mobilizing documentation in support of pedagogy” (Nathan and Fang 2009:132) or even as a “social movement” (Dobrin and Berson 2011). A documentary perspective is here synthesized with an adult literacy one, fitted to the context of West Africa, to offer some guidelines for revitalization efforts.

Description

Author's version of a paper that subsequently appeared as Chapter 7 in Africa's Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches, Jason Kandybowicz and Harold Torrence. Published 2017 by Oxford University Press. May be found at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190256340.001.0001.

DOI

10.1093/oso/9780190256340.003.0007

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/27651

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