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It was about one and a half years ago that I finally I arrived where I had always wanted to be and do what I had always wanted-- teach students, support small language communities and conduct research on African languages on my doorstep. The University of Cape Town and my new colleagues welcomed my efforts to establish the Centre for African Language Diversity-- CALDi as well as The African Language Archive-- TALA and I was recently appointed the Mellon Research Chair: African Language Diversity this initiative. The main aim of CALDi is to train young African scholars in descriptive linguistics and open up space for research into African languages at UCT with the hopes of countering the dominance of African linguistics outside the continent. It has been a great challenge for which my whole career has been a form of preparation...Read more



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Name: Shidrokh  Namei
Institution: University of Gävle
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State and/or Country: Sweden   
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Selected Publications: Namei, S. (2008), Language Choice Among Iranians in Sweden. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Vol. 29, No. 5, 419-437.
Namei, S. (2004), Ordförrådsutveckling hos tvåspråkiga (Lexical development in bilinguals). In: L. Ekberg & G. Håkansson (red.). Nordand 6: Sjätte konferensen om Nordens språk som andraspråk. Lunds universitet, Institutionen för nordiska språk, 213-225.
Namei, S. (2004), Bilingual lexical development: A Persian-Swedish word association study. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 14, No. 3, 363-388.
Namei, S. (2002) The Bilingual Lexicon from a Developmental Perspective: A Word Association Study of Persian-Swedish Bilinguals. Stockholm: Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University. *
Namei, S. (1999) Minoritetselevers ord- och begreppsutveckling på första- och andraspråket (Minority Children's Lexical Development in the L1 and the L2). I: M. Axelsson (ed.), Tvåspråkiga barn och skolframgång -mångfalden som resurs. Stockholm: Rinkeby Språkforskningsinstitut.
Namei, S. (1997) Hemspråksundervisning i gymnasieskolan: En enkätundersökning om grundkursen (Mother tongue teaching in high school: A questionnaire study of the basic course). Stockholm: Språkcentrum för modersmål och minoritetsspråk.
Namei, S. (1996) Maandegaari yaa marge zabaane maadari (Mother Tongue, to be or not). Gävle: Marschall Förlag.
Namei, S. (1993) Persiskspråkiga elever i grundskolan. In: Å. Viberg, V. Tuomela, & S. Namei. Språk och miljö i Botkyrka: Rapport från den språkvetenskapliga pilotundersökningen. Rapporter om tvåspråkighet, 8, 1993. Stockholm: Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning, Stockholms universitet.
Namei, S. (1987) Svensk grammatik på persiska (Swedish Grammar in Persian). Stockholm: SRS Förlag.
Courses Taught: Second Language Acquisition
Psychology of Language
Bilingualism,
Learning through the second language
Second language development
Bilingualism and language contact
Dissertation Abstract: The Bilingual Lexicon from a Developmental Perspective: A word association study of Persian-Swedish bilinguals


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