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Title: Panel on African Literacies Uses of English language and literacy in African contexts


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Panel on African LiteraciesUses of English
language and literacy in African contexts
Yonas M. Asfaha Kasper Juffermans Tilburg
University
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Panel on African Literacies
Google literacy africa n 1 UNESCO portal
Education Literacy in Africa Literacy
remains a major barrier to the development of
African countries. In 2000, the average
literacy rate in Sub-Saharan Africa was 52 per
cent for women and 68.9 per cent for men .
These figures often hide complex social,
cultural and economical realities.
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Panel on African Literacies
  • Programme
  • 15.30 Sandra Barasa, A trace of literacy
    communication in Kenya
  • 15.45 Danielle Beckman Jeanne Kurvers,
    Language and literacy in the community and school
    in Namibia
  • 16.00 Kasper Juffermans, Collaborative everyday
    literacy in rural Gambia
  • 16.15 Yonas Asfaha, Language, literacy, and
    script attitudes in rural Eritrea
  • 16.30 Discussant Abder El Aissati
  • 16.40 Q A
  • Common theme
  • Africa, developing countries
  • cultural and linguistic diversity, inequality
  • English as ex-colonial/official language
  • literacy in a second language
  • practices in peoples everyday lives
  • tension between school and community

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Panel on African Literacies
  • Programme
  • 15.30 Sandra Barasa, A trace of literacy
    communication in Kenya
  • 15.45 Danielle Beckman Jeanne Kurvers,
    Language and literacy in the community and school
    in Namibia
  • 16.00 Kasper Juffermans, Collaborative everyday
    literacy in rural Gambia
  • 16.15 Yonas Asfaha, Language, literacy, and
    script attitudes in rural Eritrea
  • 16.30 Discussant Abder El Aissati
  • 16.40 Q A
  • LESLLA
  • low-educated, low-literate, second language
    learners
  • complex local ecology of language and literacy
    multilingual repertoires
  • description of language and literacy use,
    attitudes
  • pedagogical implications?
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