English in West Africa

Bibliographic Data

ID4884489
AuthorsAyo Banjo (corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume141
Issue1
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ijsl.2000.141.27
OpenAlexW2027299761
LanguageEN
Citations received7

The paper opens with an enumeration of the countries making up West Africa and their classification into Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone countries. The origins of the English language in the subregion are briefly examined, followed by a consideration of some distinctive features of the area as between second-language (or outer circle sensu Kachru) andforeign language (expanding circle/' sensu Kachru) in terms of the Status of English. Some data on the francophone countries were obtained through a pilot study offive francophone countries in the area. Generally speaking, English is taught throughout the educational System in the anglophone countries, where there is now a growing demandfor an endonormative model, whereas the language is introduced at the secondary level in francophone countries, where the model, with the possible exception of Cameroon, is likely to remain exonormative

English language · French · Geography · Linguistics · Official language · Political science · Sensu · Sociology · Gender Studies in Language · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy

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