Publications

Publication details [#44516]

Trudell, Barbara. 2006. Language Development and Social Uses of Literacy: A Study of Literacy Practices in Cameroonian Minority Language Communities. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 9 (5) : 625–642.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language development1 | literacy | minority language

Language as a subject

Bafut | English | Kom | Nso'

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article explores how the emergence of mother tongue literacy affects attitudes towards, and usage of, written texts in the Bafut, Kom and Nso' minority language communities of North-west Cameroon.