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Publication details [#30660]
Ndayipfukamiye, Lin. 1996. The contradictions of teaching bilingually in post-colonial Burundi: From Nyakatsi to Maisons en Étage. Linguistics and Education 8 (1) : 35–47.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0898-5898
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article demonstrates that the Kirundi/French code contrast in schools in post-independence Burundi, orients students to the value of French and French-mediated knowledge, thus reinforcing the dominance of French and the French-speaking elites.