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Language Economics and Prestige Planning for Minority Languages in Postcolonial Settings
Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu, PhD
Center for Applied Linguistics
September 14, 2016 3:30 - 5:00pm EDT | Washington, DC

This paper addresses the perennial issue of how to promote minoritized languages alongside former colonial languages as the mediums of instruction in schools in postcolonial settings, with a focus on Africa (OAU, 2000). Traditionally, studies investigating this issue have concentrated mostly on what Haarmann (1990) has termed the production of language planning (LP), but they have hardly paid any attention to the reception of LP. The former concerns official policy declaration about the status of languages in a polity, while the latter concerns the attitude, positive or negative, of the target community toward the policy.

The paper breaks with the traditional approach by focusing on the missing link between an education through the medium of a minoritized language on the one hand, and economic outcomes of that education on the other.

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