@phdthesis{discovery10007457,
          school = {Institute of Education, University of London},
           title = {The role of indigenous languages in southern Sudan : educational language policy and planning},
            year = {2007},
            note = {Leaves 267-313 are appendices},
        abstract = {Abstract
This thesis aims to questions the language policy of Sudan's central government since
independence in 1956. An investigation of the root causes of educational problems,
which are seemingly linked to the current language policy, is examined throughout the
thesis from Chapter 1 through 9. In specific terms, Chapter 1 foregrounds the
discussion of the methods and methodology for this research purposely because the
study is based, among other things, on the analysis of historical documents pertaining
to events and processes of sociolinguistic significance for this study. The factors and
sociolinguistic conditions behind the central government's Arabicisation policy which
discourages multilingual development, relate the historical analysis in Chapter 3 to the
actual language situation in the country described in Chapter 4. However, both
chapters are viewed in the context of theoretical understanding of language situation
within multilingualism in Chapter 2.
The thesis argues that an accommodating language policy would accord a role for the
indigenous Sudanese languages. By extension, it would encourage the development
and promotion of those languages and cultures in an essentially linguistically and
culturally diverse and multilingual country. Recommendations for such an alternative
educational language policy are based on the historical and sociolinguistic findings in
chapters 3 and 4 as well as in the subsequent discussions on language policy and
planning proper in Chapters 5, where theoretical frameworks for examining such
issues are explained, and Chapters 6 through 8, where Sudan's post-independence
language policy is discussed. In the latter chapters, there is a focus on implications for
language use language as a national resource for social and cultural development, both
of which are examined in the light of historical and sociolinguistic information in the
preceding chapters. Chapter 9 concludes the thesis by proposing an alternative
educational language policy that would give a role to the nation's indigenous
languages.},
          author = {Rondyang, H. Wani},
             url = {http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442058},
        keywords = {Sudan,Language policy,Vernacular languages,Multilingualism,Sociolinguistics,History,Theses}
}