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URL:https://www.ukfiet.org/events/re-imagining-a-synchronous-linguistic-la
 ndscape-of-local-languages-in-early-childhood-education-in-western-uganda/
SUMMARY:Re-imagining a Synchronous Linguistic Landscape of Local Languages 
 in Early Childhood Education in Western Uganda
DESCRIPTION:Monday 7 March 12:30 until 13:45\nOnline : Zoom: https://univer
 sityofsussex.zoom.us/j/97335918649 or Fulton Room 103\nSpeaker: Professor 
 Jo Westbrook\, CIE and Margaret Baleeta\, Bugema University\, Uganda\nPart
  of the series: CIE Research Cafés Spring Term 2022\nUganda’s ‘early 
 exit’ language policy positions African languages ambiguously in public 
 education provision. Runyoro-Rutooro and Runyankore-Rukiga are spoken in W
 estern Uganda in public spaces where translanguaging happens as a matter o
 f course. \nThese languages are heard at pre-primary and lower primary le
 vels but are superseded by English from primary grade 4. Teachers speak Ru
 tooro\, Rukiga and English to varying degrees but must negotiate the diffe
 rent priorities stipulated by the policy within this linguistic landscape 
 as they teach reading to multilingual children. In so doing teachers creat
 e linguistic synergies and disjunctures between home\, community and schoo
 l. This exerts a toll both on teachers and on students’ capabilities to 
 become proficient in spoken and written local language and English in both
  the dynamic present\, and in the imagined future. This paper reports from
  a small-scale qualitative cross-sectional study of synergies and disjunct
 ures in language use as children learn to read in local language and Engli
 sh across home\, Early Childhood Education and primary school in two sites
  in Western Uganda.\nFindings suggest that mitigation of such cognitive wa
 stage in young children by a ‘late-exit’ policy would support reading 
 proficiency and encourage translanguaging practices\, creating synergies w
 ith the wider\, public use of Ugandan languages.
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