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Report on BAAL ‘Language in Africa’ SIG meetings Reading in African languages: Developing literacies and reading methodologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2015

Rosemary Wildsmith-Cromarty
Rosemary Wildsmith-Cromarty*
Affiliation:
North-West University, South Africawildsmithr@ukzn.ac.za
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This report describes ongoing research on reading in African languages. It draws mainly on contributions from two British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) ‘Language in Africa’ (LiA) Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings: the LiA SIG strand at BAAL 2013 and the seminar on Reading Methodologies in African Languages held at The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in January 2014. This report will only cover contributions that focused on reading research and practice.

Type
Research in Progress
Information
Language Teaching , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , April 2015 , pp. 297 - 301
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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