"Do You Want Me to Translate This in English or in a Better Mandinka Language?": Unequal Literacy Regimes and Grassroots Spelling Practices in Peri-Urban Gambia

Autor/in	Juffermans, Kasper
Titel	"Do You Want Me to Translate This in English or in a Better Mandinka Language?": Unequal Literacy Regimes and Grassroots Spelling Practices in Peri-Urban Gambia
Quelle	In: International Journal of Educational Development, 31 (2011) 6, S.643-653 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0738-0593
DOI	10.1016/j.ijedudev.2011.02.003
Schlagwörter	Spelling; Educational History; Foreign Countries; Spelling Instruction; African Languages; Translation; Literacy; Ethnography; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Gambia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schreibweise; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Ausland; Orthographieunterricht; Rechtschreibunterricht; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Ethnografie; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb
Abstract	This paper presents a comparative ethnographic analysis of two versions of a grassroots text in Mandinka language, one written by a non-formally educated man, the other a respelling by a formally educated urbanite. The analysis points at a crucial difference in spelling practices and inequality in literacy regimes, i.e., between established orthographic English literacy and the more creative, heterographic and emergent local language literacy. It is shown how English orthography affects local ideologies of literacy as well as Mandinka spelling practices itself, in greater or lesser extent, depending on the educational history of the speller. (Contains 2 figures, 5 fragments, and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10