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Direct linkAdebimpe Adegbite – Modern Language Journal, 2025
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Proverbs, Folk Culture
Stranger--Johannessen, Espen; Norton, Bonny – Modern Language Journal, 2017
The African Storybook (ASb) is a digital initiative that promotes multilingual literacy for African children by providing openly licenced children's stories in multiple African languages, as well as English, French, and Portuguese. Based on Darvin and Norton's (2015) model of identity and investment, and drawing on the Douglas Fir Group's (2016)…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Social Capital
