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Direct linkBrock-Utne, Birgit – International Review of Education, 2012
This article deals with the fact that most children in Africa are taught in a language neither they nor their teachers master, resulting in poor education outcomes. While there are also donor interests and donor competition involved in retaining ex-colonial languages, as well as an African elite that may profit from this system, one of the main…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries
Brock-Utne, Birgit – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
This article is an abbreviated version of the BAICE Presidential Address held at the 11th UKFIET International Conference in Oxford on September 16, 2011. It discusses debates on the use of a foreign and ex-colonial language as a language of instruction (LOI) in African schools and argues that the quality of education cannot be seen as an issue…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings)
Brock-Utne, Birgit – International Review of Education, 2007
This article, drawing on a set of studies conducted in the framework of the Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa (LOITASA) research project, shows how well African students express themselves if they are allowed to use a familiar African language, and conversely the difficulties they have when forced to use a foreign language, a…
Descriptors: African Languages, Second Languages, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries
Brock-Utne, Birgit – International Review of Education, 2007
This article examines some of the problems concerning the language of instruction in higher education within Europe and relates them to the African context. The author argues that there is reason to be worried about the spread of the use of English as a language of instruction in higher education, to the detriment of the smaller European languages…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Brock-Utne, Birgit – International Journal of Educational Development, 2007
This article builds on 30h of observations made in classrooms in secondary schools in Tanzania in the fall of 2004. The article presents an empirical study using an experimental group that was taught in Kiswahili and a control group taught the same topics in English. The author takes the reader straight into some of the classrooms and gives…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualifications, Language of Instruction, Experimental Groups
Brock-Utne, Birgit; Holmarsdottir, Halla B. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2004
The authors of the present article are engaged in a research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council. In this project the language policies of Tanzania and South Africa, as well as the practices of these policies in the classroom are analyzed. The article gives some preliminary results from the project. While the language policies of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, African Languages, Official Languages
