Publications

Publication details [#58919]

Abongdia, Jane-Francis and Fiona Willans. 2014. The position of English globally and nationally: a comparison of Cameroon and Vanuatu. Current Issues in Language Planning 15 (1) : 57–74.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | ideology | language of instruction | language policy | language status

Language as a subject

English | French

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

The wish to master both English and French as ‘international languages’ reinsures the favoring of these former colonial languages as media of instruction in Cameroon and Vanuatu, although the dominance of English (in Vanuatu) itself is mitigated to a certain degree.