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Coping with meaning changes in a West African English language classroom

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Anchimbe, Eric A.:
Coping with meaning changes in a West African English language classroom.
In: Journal of Language and Learning. Vol. 4 (2006) Issue 1 . - pp. 50-62.
ISSN 1740-4983

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Abstract in another language

This illustrative paper presents some of the common semantic changes that have taken place in English in West Africa. It uses findings made by various researchers in the past two decades to situate the place of the external environment to the acquisition and use of a language – especially one foreign to it as English is. Although English in West Africa is taught almost exclusively by West Africans, it is sometimes important to have a broad base understanding of the West African environment in order to cope properly with these challenges especially in an English language class. This is because many of these semantic changes, some identified below, are influenced by the sociocultural environment or the new ecology within which the language now finds itself. This ecology is composed of a multitude of native African languages, a predominantly similar Pidgin English and several languages of wider communication. These languages are used in a complex framework of individual multilingualism that compels people to make use of several languages (in some cases up to three) in the course of one day.

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Item Type: Article in a journal
Refereed: Yes
Institutions of the University: Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Chair English Linguistics > Chair English Linguistics - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Susanne Mühleisen
Faculties
Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature
Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Chair English Linguistics
Result of work at the UBT: No
DDC Subjects: 400 Language > 400 Language
400 Language > 410 Linguistics
400 Language > 420 English, Old English languages
Date Deposited: 15 Jan 2020 10:16
Last Modified: 15 Jan 2020 10:16
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/53750