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Learning How to Learn Languages: The Teaching & Learning of African Languages
Author(s) -
Mugane John M.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
language and linguistics compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 44
ISSN - 1749-818X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-818x.2009.00178.x
Subject(s) - linguistics , languages of africa , computer science , language acquisition , sociology , philosophy
The African continent is home to over a thousand languages, many of which are unwritten and most of which are underdescribed. Learners and instructors of these languages – indeed of any underdescribed language – must think and operate well beyond the methodologies and organization of the better‐resourced and more‐established language programs in the US.