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‘Languages don’t have bones, so you can just break them’: rethinking multilingualism in education policy and practice in Africa

Article by Colin Reilly, Mompoloki M. Bagwasi, Tracey Costley, Hannah Gibson, Nancy C. Kula, Gastor Mapunda and Joseph Mwansa, posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 4 (Rethinking Multilingualism: Education, Policy and Practice in Africa), 2022

Multilingualism in Algeria: educational policies, language practices and challenges

Article by Siham Rouabah, posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 4 (Rethinking Multilingualism: Education, Policy and Practice in Africa), 2022

Which multilingualism do you speak? Translanguaging as an integral part of individuals’ lives in the Casamance, Senegal

Article by Miriam Weidl, posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 4 (Rethinking Multilingualism: Education, Policy and Practice in Africa), 2022

Language policy in Ghana and Malawi: differing approaches to multilingualism in education

Article by Colin Reilly, Elvis ResCue and Jean Josephine Chavula, posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 4 (Rethinking Multilingualism: Education, Policy and Practice in Africa), 2022

Learning literacy in a familiar language: comparing reading and comprehension competence in Bemba in two contrasting settings in Northern Zambia

Article by Nancy C. Kula and Joseph Mwansa, posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 4 (Rethinking Multilingualism: Education, Policy and Practice in Africa), 2022

A defiance of language policy: seamless boundaries between languages in Botswana classrooms

Article by Mompoloki M. Bagwasi and Tracey Costley, posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 4 (Rethinking Multilingualism: Education, Policy and Practice in Africa), 2022

On the suitability of Swahili for early schooling in remote rural Tanzania: do policy and practice align?

Article by Gastor Mapunda and Hannah Gibson, posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 4 (Rethinking Multilingualism: Education, Policy and Practice in Africa), 2022

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