Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa - Paperback

by Elizabeth J. Erling (Editor), John Clegg (Editor), Casmir M. Rubagumya (Editor)

This edited collection provides unprecedented insight into the emerging field of multilingual education in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The book puts forward strategies for creating materials, classrooms environments and teacher education programmes which support the use of all of a student's languages to improve language and content learning.

Author Biography

Elizabeth J. Erling is an educational research consultant who has worked in international education and English language teaching initiatives at the Open University, UK, the University of Graz and the University of Vienna, Austria.

John Clegg is a freelance education consultant and occasional research at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, UK.

Casmir M. Rubagumya is a professor of Language Education at St. John's University of Tanzania, Tanzania.

Colin Reilly is a senior research officer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK.