Barbara Trudell
Biographic Data
| ID | 174548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Trudell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Trudell |
| SIGNATURE | TRUDELL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | SIL International |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Policy in name only: Explaining the failure to generate political priority for L1-based multilingual education in Kenya
Reading in the classroom and society: An examination of “reading culture” in African contexts
Adult literacy, local languages and lifelong learning in rural African contexts
Language choice and education quality in Eastern and Southern Africa: A review
In 2014, UNICEF commissioned a review of language policy and education quality in the 21 countries of UNICEF’s Eastern and Southern Africa Region. This paper examines findings from the review, related to the role of English and local languages in current education practice in the region. National language policies and implementation practices are examined, as is the mismatch between the two. The evident widespread use of English as the language o…
Whatever the law says: Language policy implementation and early-grade literacy achievement in Kenya
Language policy is generally seen as a national-level decision regarding which languages the state will support, and in which public domains. However, the reality is that language policy plays out at regional and local levels as well. In fact, it could be argued that the most important instantiations of language policy are those which directly determine local-language behaviors in institutions such as schools, government and civil society. Using …
Effective literacy programmes and independent reading in African contexts
Literacy has long been seen as a key to freedom from social, economic and political inequality. However, the processes of literacy acquisition are often poorly understood; as a result, what is offered in many literacy programmes is inadequate to fulfill the promises being made. At least in sub-Saharan Africa, a literacy curriculum which does not produce independent readers does not actually address the educational and social inequalities faced by…
Of gateways and gatekeepers: Language, education and mobility in francophone Africa
Language, culture, development and politics: Dimensions of local agency in language development in Africa
Support for the use of local languages for learning and communication is currently in fashion among national policy-makers in Africa. This position has been promoted by UNESCO and other local-language advocates for years; more recently it is being seen favourably by a range of influential international institutions. However, even positive language policy usually depends on local action to give it shape and sustain it. In many countries across sub…
Distinction, integration and identity: Motivations for local language literacy in Senegalese communities
Practice in Search of a Paradigm: Language Rights, Linguistic Citizenship and Minority Language Communities in Senegal
Appropriate models for understanding the dynamics of language use in society are essential to effective language policy and planning. Particularly in African contexts, such models must speak to the unique features of multilingual environments, and they must account for the differences in prestige and value which occur between languages in these contexts. Two paradigms of language and identity that are under discussion in Africa today are the lang…
Local-language literacy and sustainable development in Africa
Reading Methodologies for African Languages: Avoiding Linguistic and Pedagogical Imperialism
https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/4987
Local community perspectives and language of education in sub-Saharan African communities
Language Development and Social Uses of Literacy: A Study of Literacy Practices in Cameroonian Minority Language Communities
In Northwest Cameroon, the emergence of literacy in the mother tongue is providing minority language communities with new alternatives for learning and communication. To some extent, these alternatives are shaped by existing literacy practices in English, as English is the language of formal education. However, new spaces are also emerging in society for the use of literacy in the mother tongue. This paper examines the impact of mother-tongue lit…
Local Agency in the Development of Minority Languages: Three Language Committees in Northwest Cameroon
Examples of effective community-based action in defence of minority indigenous language are relatively few. However, three indigenous language committees of Northwest Cameroon, the Bafut, Kom and Nso' language committees, provide dynamic models of the role that community-based organisations can play in the development and maintenance of minority indigenous languages. These language committees are seen to have the support of local authorities, and…
Language choice, education and community identity
Africa's Young Majority
Barbara Trudell, Kenneth King, Simon McGrath and Paul Nugent (eds), Africa's Young Majority. Edinburgh: Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2002, 342 pp., £19.50, ISBN 0 9527917 7 3 (paperback). - Volume 73 Issue 4
Instituto Lingüístico de Verano y la Educación Bilingüe en el Perú: Una Perspectiva
La participación del Instituto Lingüístico de Verano (ILV) en la educación bilingüe en la Amazonía Peruana ha tenido siempre el carácter de un esfuerzo mancomunado con el Ministerio de Educación. El primer convenio entre dicho ministerio y el ILV, firmado en 1945, comprometía a las dos entidades signatarias a "desarrollar un programa de cooperación para la investigación de las lenguas indígenas de la República" (Convenio Ministerio de Educación/I…
Reading Methodologies for African Languages: Avoiding Linguistic and Pedagogical Imperialism
https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/4987
Language choice, education and community identity
Whatever the law says: Language policy implementation and early-grade literacy achievement in Kenya
Language policy is generally seen as a national-level decision regarding which languages the state will support, and in which public domains. However, the reality is that language policy plays out at regional and local levels as well. In fact, it could be argued that the most important instantiations of language policy are those which directly determine local-language behaviors in institutions such as schools, government and civil society. Using …
Distinction, integration and identity: Motivations for local language literacy in Senegalese communities
Africa's Young Majority
Barbara Trudell, Kenneth King, Simon McGrath and Paul Nugent (eds), Africa's Young Majority. Edinburgh: Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2002, 342 pp., £19.50, ISBN 0 9527917 7 3 (paperback). - Volume 73 Issue 4
Local-language literacy and sustainable development in Africa
Local community perspectives and language of education in sub-Saharan African communities
Of gateways and gatekeepers: Language, education and mobility in francophone Africa
Adult literacy, local languages and lifelong learning in rural African contexts
Practice in Search of a Paradigm: Language Rights, Linguistic Citizenship and Minority Language Communities in Senegal
Appropriate models for understanding the dynamics of language use in society are essential to effective language policy and planning. Particularly in African contexts, such models must speak to the unique features of multilingual environments, and they must account for the differences in prestige and value which occur between languages in these contexts. Two paradigms of language and identity that are under discussion in Africa today are the lang…
Language, culture, development and politics: Dimensions of local agency in language development in Africa
Support for the use of local languages for learning and communication is currently in fashion among national policy-makers in Africa. This position has been promoted by UNESCO and other local-language advocates for years; more recently it is being seen favourably by a range of influential international institutions. However, even positive language policy usually depends on local action to give it shape and sustain it. In many countries across sub…
Local Agency in the Development of Minority Languages: Three Language Committees in Northwest Cameroon
Examples of effective community-based action in defence of minority indigenous language are relatively few. However, three indigenous language committees of Northwest Cameroon, the Bafut, Kom and Nso' language committees, provide dynamic models of the role that community-based organisations can play in the development and maintenance of minority indigenous languages. These language committees are seen to have the support of local authorities, and…
Instituto Lingüístico de Verano y la Educación Bilingüe en el Perú: Una Perspectiva
La participación del Instituto Lingüístico de Verano (ILV) en la educación bilingüe en la Amazonía Peruana ha tenido siempre el carácter de un esfuerzo mancomunado con el Ministerio de Educación. El primer convenio entre dicho ministerio y el ILV, firmado en 1945, comprometía a las dos entidades signatarias a "desarrollar un programa de cooperación para la investigación de las lenguas indígenas de la República" (Convenio Ministerio de Educación/I…
Instituto Lingüístico de Verano y la Educación Bilingüe en el Perú: Una Perspectiva
La participación del Instituto Lingüístico de Verano (ILV) en la educación bilingüe en la Amazonía Peruana ha tenido siempre el carácter de un esfuerzo mancomunado con el Ministerio de Educación. El primer convenio entre dicho ministerio y el ILV, firmado en 1945, comprometía a las dos entidades signatarias a "desarrollar un programa de cooperación para la investigación de las lenguas indígenas de la República" (Convenio Ministerio de Educación/I…
Africa's Young Majority
Barbara Trudell, Kenneth King, Simon McGrath and Paul Nugent (eds), Africa's Young Majority. Edinburgh: Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2002, 342 pp., £19.50, ISBN 0 9527917 7 3 (paperback). - Volume 73 Issue 4
Language choice, education and community identity
Language Development and Social Uses of Literacy: A Study of Literacy Practices in Cameroonian Minority Language Communities
In Northwest Cameroon, the emergence of literacy in the mother tongue is providing minority language communities with new alternatives for learning and communication. To some extent, these alternatives are shaped by existing literacy practices in English, as English is the language of formal education. However, new spaces are also emerging in society for the use of literacy in the mother tongue. This paper examines the impact of mother-tongue lit…
Local Agency in the Development of Minority Languages: Three Language Committees in Northwest Cameroon
Examples of effective community-based action in defence of minority indigenous language are relatively few. However, three indigenous language committees of Northwest Cameroon, the Bafut, Kom and Nso' language committees, provide dynamic models of the role that community-based organisations can play in the development and maintenance of minority indigenous languages. These language committees are seen to have the support of local authorities, and…
Reading Methodologies for African Languages: Avoiding Linguistic and Pedagogical Imperialism
https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/4987
Local community perspectives and language of education in sub-Saharan African communities
Practice in Search of a Paradigm: Language Rights, Linguistic Citizenship and Minority Language Communities in Senegal
Appropriate models for understanding the dynamics of language use in society are essential to effective language policy and planning. Particularly in African contexts, such models must speak to the unique features of multilingual environments, and they must account for the differences in prestige and value which occur between languages in these contexts. Two paradigms of language and identity that are under discussion in Africa today are the lang…
Local-language literacy and sustainable development in Africa
Distinction, integration and identity: Motivations for local language literacy in Senegalese communities
Language, culture, development and politics: Dimensions of local agency in language development in Africa
Support for the use of local languages for learning and communication is currently in fashion among national policy-makers in Africa. This position has been promoted by UNESCO and other local-language advocates for years; more recently it is being seen favourably by a range of influential international institutions. However, even positive language policy usually depends on local action to give it shape and sustain it. In many countries across sub…
Effective literacy programmes and independent reading in African contexts
Literacy has long been seen as a key to freedom from social, economic and political inequality. However, the processes of literacy acquisition are often poorly understood; as a result, what is offered in many literacy programmes is inadequate to fulfill the promises being made. At least in sub-Saharan Africa, a literacy curriculum which does not produce independent readers does not actually address the educational and social inequalities faced by…
Of gateways and gatekeepers: Language, education and mobility in francophone Africa
Whatever the law says: Language policy implementation and early-grade literacy achievement in Kenya
Language policy is generally seen as a national-level decision regarding which languages the state will support, and in which public domains. However, the reality is that language policy plays out at regional and local levels as well. In fact, it could be argued that the most important instantiations of language policy are those which directly determine local-language behaviors in institutions such as schools, government and civil society. Using …
Language choice and education quality in Eastern and Southern Africa: A review
In 2014, UNICEF commissioned a review of language policy and education quality in the 21 countries of UNICEF’s Eastern and Southern Africa Region. This paper examines findings from the review, related to the role of English and local languages in current education practice in the region. National language policies and implementation practices are examined, as is the mismatch between the two. The evident widespread use of English as the language o…
Reading in the classroom and society: An examination of “reading culture” in African contexts
Adult literacy, local languages and lifelong learning in rural African contexts
Policy in name only: Explaining the failure to generate political priority for L1-based multilingual education in Kenya
Multilingual Education and Policy (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Pedagogy (12 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (12 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Literacy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works)