NEW! October Issue of the ReN Newsletter
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The Africa ReN Convenes in Essen, Germany (August 2008) During AILA Congress
The ReN Africa symposia confirmed the theoretical rigour and dynamism of postcolonial African Applied Linguistics and the inclusive, growing community working in this field….
4th ADALEST conference, University of Botswana, Gaborone; 7-9 July 2008
Read about results from the 4th conference of the Association for the Development of African Languages in Education, Science and Technology (ADALEST), held under the theme, ‘African Languages in the Context of the UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014)’…
New Resource Bantu Orthography Manual
The Bantu Orthography Manual is a resource for developing writing systems among the Bantu subgroup of Niger-Congo languages. It offers a strategy for orthography development responding to native speaker intuition…
New Publication: Family Literacy: Experiences from Africa and Around the World
ReN member Snoeks Desmond, along with Maren Elfert, recently edited the newly released "Family Literacy: Experiences from Africa and Around the World" published by UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and…
ReN Member of the Month Profile: Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu
Let me first tell your readers about my social and academic background. I was born in a rural village in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo…
- Language and Gender in African Contexts: A BAAL Gender and Language SiG Seminar
- Reading Association of South Africa 2008 Conference
22nd Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria - Highlights - First Intergenerational Literacy Learners’ Conference Held in Uganda
- The 6th Pan-African Reading for All Conference
FOCUS on… West Africa
Features: A Brief on the 5TH Pan-African Reading for All Conference (August 2007)
FOCUS on… Francophone Africa
Features: We are currently seeking Francophone contributors to the ReN newsletter and website. We are committed to including Francophone Africa researchers in our research community and our aim is to eventually publish the newsletter in English and French. We have a post vacant for…
FOCUS on… Southern Africa
Features: Blogging South Africa: A Foreign Teacher Writes Home
Assessing the ‘Takalani Sesame’ Project: Findings from an Evaluation Report
FOCUS on…. East Africa
Features: A new working group on multilingual education in East Africa
Research Corner
- Finding Synergies: African Mother Tongues and ICTs Research Group
- Recommended Resources: African Languages and Voice Technologies
- Abstract: The Two Kabiye Orthographies
Publications, Resources and Tools
- African Family Literacy Newsletter to be Launched
- Book Announcement: Literacies, Global and Local
- New Publications in African Linguistics and Education from CASAS
Recension de Lezouret, Lise M. et Chatry-Komarek, Marie. (2007). Enseigner le français en contextes multilingues dans les écoles africaines. Paris : L’Harmattan.
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