All outputs produced as part of Multilingual Education in The Gambia project and activities we organise/support are listed below. These include, but are not limited to, events organised in collaboration with partners in The Gambia, book chapters and academic journal articles.
Conference talk
Ancarno, C. September 2022. ‘Transition in The Gambia: embracing societal multilingualism in lower basic education’. British Association of Applied Linguistics 2022 Conference, Queen’s University Belfast.
Book chapter
Ancarno, C., Bouy, B. and Jeng, M. IN PRESS. ‘Challenges in The Gambia for primary school lessons aiming to enhance literacy in the national languages’. In Multilingual learning in sub-Saharan Africa: critical insights and practical applications edited by Erling, E. Clegg, J. and Reilly, C. Routledge.
Conference talk
Ancarno, C. July 2022. ‘Enhancing Literacy through the Use of National Languages in Gambian Primary Schools’. Bringing the outside in & BAAL-LiA SIG Annual Conference. University of Essex.
Conference talk
Ancarno, C. June 2022. ‘Language in education policy in The Gambia: What linguistic violence?’ 2nd Workshop Confronting Urban Violence: Global Interdisciplinary Investigations, Brasília-DF.
Virtual Reading Group ‘Language in The Gambia’
The Language in The Gambia Virtual Reading Group is back and will have its seventh meeting Tuesday 7 June 5.00-6.30pm Gambian Time/6.00-7.30pm. We will resume our lively discussions with excerpts from a PhD concerning Gambian English:
Marong, M., Gambian English: syntactic features of a West African variety of the English language/vorgelegt von Melissa Marong (Doctoral dissertation, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz).
Seminar series
Ancarno, C. May 2022. ‘”I haven’t sent my children to school to learn the national languages”: integrating Gambian languages in education in The Gambia’. Cardiff University CLCR Research Seminar Series [further details].
Multilingual teaching resources: primary schools in The Gambia – ONE-WEEK WORKSHOP WITH TEACHERS
21-25 March 2022 @ Shelley’s Lodge Conference Room (Bijilo, The Gambia). Bespoke workshop with five teachers who received support in developing their own multilingual teaching aids (e.g. storybooks in several languages, multilingual posters, videos illustrating translanguaging pedagogical practices in classrooms) and in leading a one-day train the trainer event which occurred after the workshop [further details].
Virtual Reading Group ‘Language in The Gambia’
The Language in The Gambia Virtual Reading Group will have its sixth and final meeting for this calendar year on Tuesday 16 November @ 6pm Gambian and UK time. We will discuss:
Andrason, A., 2014. A contribution to the Mandinka dialectology–Basse Mandinka versus Standard Gambian Mandinka. Asian and African Studies, 23(1), pp.110-139. [download].
Virtual Reading Group ‘Language in The Gambia’
The Language in The Gambia Virtual Reading Group will have its fifth meeting on Tuesday 19 October @ 5.30pm Gambian time (6.30pm UK time). We will discuss Section 7.2 (p. 143-154) of the following PhD thesis: McGlynn, C., 2013. Language in Education Policy and Practice in Post-Colonial Africa: An ethnographic case-study of The Gambia (Doctoral dissertation, University of East London). [download].
Virtual Reading Group ‘Language in The Gambia’
The Language in The Gambia Virtual Reading Group will have its fourth meeting on Tuesday 21 September at 5.30pm Gambian time / 6.30 UK time. We will discuss: Peter, L., Wolf, H.G. and Bobda, A.S., 2003. An account of distinctive phonetic and lexical features of Gambian English. English world-wide, 24(1), pp.43-61. [download].
Virtual Reading Group ‘Language in The Gambia’
The Language in The Gambia Virtual Reading Group will have its third meeting on Tuesday 27 July at 5.30pm. We will discuss: Lawson, S. and Jaworski, A., 2007. Shopping and chatting: Reports of tourist–host interaction in the Gambia. Multilingua 26. [download]. Find out more (Zoom links etc.) HERE.
Virtual Reading Group ‘Language in The Gambia’
The Language in The Gambia Virtual Reading Group will have its second meeting on Tuesday 22 June at 5.30pm. We will discuss: Juffermans, K. and McGlynn, C., 2009. A sociolinguistic profile of The Gambia. Sociolinguistic Studies 3(3), pp.329-355. Click here to view the article. “Following a portrayal of the indigenous and exogenous languages of The Gambia, with attention to hybrid, overlapping and shifting ethnolinguistic identities, the role of language in several social institutions in a changing society is identified and discussed. The paper culminates in a discussion of linguistic and cultural diversity and appeals for more research in this sociolinguistically unexposed country”. Find out more HERE.
Virtual Reading Group ‘Language in The Gambia’
LAUNCH on Tuesday 6 April 2021 @ 5.30pm (ZOOM or WHATSAPP)
Open to anyone interested who is interested in languages of The Gambia
The Language in The Gambia Virtual Reading Group is a community of students, scholars and members of the general public interested in finding out more about how languages are used to communicate in The Gambia and the working of these languages. We meet regularly for an hour to discuss advanced research articles related to these topics. Find out more HERE.
POSTPONED until further notice – Online seminar series ‘Multilingualism and Languages of The Gambia’
POSTPONED until further notice – This seminar series will bring together scholars who have researched multilingualism in The Gambia. Possible topics include: linguistic insights into specific Gambian languages, teachers’ use of Gambian languages as languages of learning and teaching to facilitate inclusive education… [full call for papers available]. Book HERE.
Reflective workshop with professional educators in The Gambia
‘Working with multilingual children in The Gambia’. Cancelled due to Covid panemic.
Conference talk (Twitter)
Ancarno, C. December 2020. National language literacy lessons in The Gambia. Twitter thread @clydeancarno
Seminar series
Ancarno, C., and Jeng, M. August 2020. ‘Multilingual Education in The Gambia Research project’. Language and sustainable development webinar series (summary of the talk)
Conference talk
Ancarno, C. 2019. ‘Is The Gambia decolonising its language education policy?’ Language and Decolonisation in 21st Century Africa – BAAL Language in Africa SIG Annual Conference, 10 May 2019, University of Portsmouth. (abstract)
Multilingual Education in The Gambia (MEG) 