Adebimpe Adegbite
Biographic Data
| ID | 8645695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adebimpe Adegbite |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adebimpe |
| FAMILY NAME | Adegbite |
| SIGNATURE | ADEGBITE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-2975-5676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Acquiring Yoruba as a minority majority language in its host context
Parents and Children as Stakeholders in Yoruba Minority Language Acquisition
In a bottom-top family language policy (FLP), multiple factors and actors are responsible for children’s minority (indigenous, native, and heritage) language acquisition. Because of the interconnection of stakeholders in the development of motivation for language acquisition, actors are often impossible to single out as independently responsible for their ideologies or language practices. This study explores parents and children as stakeholders i…
Effectiveness of Yoruba proverbs in acquiring Yoruba language and culture
In the Yoruba community, proverbs are regarded as Yoruba philosophy repository, with wisdom, brevity, criticality, and stored experience that are believed to be a viable tool of acquiring the language. Hinging on reversing language shift model theory, the study investigated: (a) whether Yoruba proverbs are effective in the acquisition of Yoruba language and culture by children, and (b) whether the language attitudes of Yoruba learners change with…
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Parents and Children as Stakeholders in Yoruba Minority Language Acquisition
In a bottom-top family language policy (FLP), multiple factors and actors are responsible for children’s minority (indigenous, native, and heritage) language acquisition. Because of the interconnection of stakeholders in the development of motivation for language acquisition, actors are often impossible to single out as independently responsible for their ideologies or language practices. This study explores parents and children as stakeholders i…
Effectiveness of Yoruba proverbs in acquiring Yoruba language and culture
In the Yoruba community, proverbs are regarded as Yoruba philosophy repository, with wisdom, brevity, criticality, and stored experience that are believed to be a viable tool of acquiring the language. Hinging on reversing language shift model theory, the study investigated: (a) whether Yoruba proverbs are effective in the acquisition of Yoruba language and culture by children, and (b) whether the language attitudes of Yoruba learners change with…
Acquiring Yoruba as a minority majority language in its host context
Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Yoruba (3 works) · Minority language (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Bantu languages (1 works) · First language (1 works) · Home language (1 works) · Ideology (1 works) · Language policy (1 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (1 works)