Date: 30-Jun-2008 From: Christian Bieri <publicitypeterlang.com> Subject: Pour Mwan Mon Lalang Maternel i Al avek Mwan Partou: Fleischmann E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Pour Mwan Mon Lalang Maternel i Al avek Mwan Partou
Subtitle: A Sociolinguistic Study on Attitudes towards Seychellois Creole
Series Title: Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe 21: Linguistik. Vol. 318
Published: 2008
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
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Author: Christina Tamaa Fleischmann
Paperback: ISBN: 9783039115129 Pages: 250 Price: U.S. $ 68.95
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Abstract:
In the 1970s, the newly independent Seychelles government took the landmark decision to make Seychellois Creole (SC) an official language. The Seychelles thus became the first Creole-speaking country worldwide to give its Creole the status of a national language and to use it as a medium of instruction. The decision to use SC in the school system has resulted in many positive developments such as increasing rates in public literacy. Despite these advances, there are many critics who contend that formal instruction in SC interferes with the speedy and necessary acquisition of English and French, which are internationally associated with socio-economic power and prestige.
This book assesses the attitudes of SC speakers towards their mother tongue, in relation to the colonial history of the country. Its objectives are twofold: firstly to shed light upon the attitudes which modern Seychellois hold towards their mother tongue and its use in the education system; and secondly to demonstrate how these attitudes may affect the achievement of the government's educational agenda.
The findings of this book are directly relevant for other investigators interested in globalization, multilingual education, pluriliteracy, minority language maintenance, language policy, and teacher training. Moreover, the implications of this research are applicable to other post-colonial settings throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas where the pursuit of sensitive yet effective multilingual educational policies remains acute.
Contents:
Background Information on the Islands of the Indian Ocean Region - The Mascarenes: Réunion, Mauritius Rodriguez - The Seychelles: Geography, History, Population and Speech Situation - Sociohistorical Conditions of the Early IOR Colonial Societies - The Origin of the Seychellois Creole - The «Bourbonnais» versus the «Isle de France» Theory - The Genesis of the Seychellois Creole - Minority Languages - Language Planning - The Seychelles Education System - Language Attitudes towards the Seychellois Creole: A Case Study - Research Tools: Questionnaires, Interviews, Documentary Analysis - Attitudes Towards the Promotion and Learning of Creole - The Status of Creole as a Formal Language - Value Differences Between English, Creole and French - The Role and Status of Creole in the Seychelles School System - Improvement of the Seychelles School System through Creole - Attitudes of Teachers and Policy-Makers Towards Creole in Schools - Recommendations - Summary and Outlook.
Linguistic Field(s):
Applied Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
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