Language Policy, Multilingual Education, and Power in Rwanda

Autor/inn/en	Samuelson, Beth Lewis; Freedman, Sarah Warshauer
Titel	Language Policy, Multilingual Education, and Power in Rwanda
Quelle	In: Language Policy, 9 (2010) 3, S.191-215 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1568-4555
DOI	10.1007/s10993-010-9170-7
Schlagwörter	Economic Development; Language Planning; Official Languages; Language of Instruction; Multilingualism; Social Change; Educational Change; Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Second Language Learning; War; Death; English (Second Language); French; Group Membership; Language Usage; Ethnicity; African Languages; Case Studies; Role; Power Structure; Language Role; Rwanda + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Sprachwechsel; Office language; Amtssprache; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Sozialer Wandel; Bildungsreform; Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Krieg; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Französisch; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; Sprachgebrauch; Ethnizität; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Rollen; Ruanda
Abstract	The evolution of Rwanda's language policies since 1996 has played and continues to play a critical role in social reconstruction following war and genocide. Rwanda's new English language policy aims to drop French and install English as the only language of instruction. The policy-makers frame the change as a major factor in the success of social and education reforms aimed at promoting reconciliation and peace and increasing Rwanda's participation in global economic development. However, in Rwanda, the language one speaks is construed as an indicator of group affiliations and identity. Furthermore, Rwanda has the potential to develop a multilingual educational policy that employs its national language, Kinyarwanda (Ikinyarwanda, Rwanda), to promote mass literacy and a literate, multilingual populace. Rwanda's situation can serve as a case study for the ongoing roles that language policy plays in the politics of power. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10