From foreign to national: a review of the status of the French language in Gabon
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| Field | Value | |
| Title | From foreign to national: a review of the status of the French language in Gabon | |
| Creator | Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, H.S. | |
| Description | This article provides a review of the various statuses of the French language in Gabon, a French-speaking country in Central Africa. It reveals a process in which different generations of Gabonese people are increasingly learning, and thus conceptualising, French as a second language rather than a foreign language. Furthermore, some are also learning and conceptualising French as a mother tongue or initial language, rather than a second language. This process of reconceptualisation has somehow been encouraged by the language policy of the colonial administration and the language policy since the attainment of independence, the latter being a continuation of the former. The final stage of this process is that the language has been adopted among the local languages within the Gabonese language landscape. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2011-06-22 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v32i2.15 | |
| Source | Literator; Vol 32, No 2 (2011); 135-150 Literator; Vol 32, No 2 (2011); 135-150 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
| Language | eng | |
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