The demands of a changing society: English in education in kenya today

Language, Culture and Curriculum

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 201-213

  Kioko, Angelina N ^a   Muthwii, Margaret J ^a  

^a KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 50449097002     PISSN: 07908318     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07908310108666622     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Abdulaziz, M. (1982) Patterns of language acquisition and use in Kenya: Rural-urban differences. International Journal of Society and Language 34, 95-120.
2. Angogo, R. and Hancock, I. (1980) English in Africa: Emerging standards or diverging regionalisms? English World-Wide 1, 67-96.
3. Bailey, R. and Gorlach, M. (1982) English as a World Language. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
4. Bamgbose, A. (1982) Standard Nigerian English: Issues of identification. In B.B. Kachru (ed.) The Other Tongue: English Across Cultures (pp. 99-111). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
5. Coelho, G.M. (1997) Anglo-Indian English: A nativised variety of Indian English. Language in Society 26 (4), 561-89.
6. Bokamba, E.G. (1994) The fiction of the native speaker in L2 research. In J.E. Alatis (ed.) GURT on Languages and Linguistics (pp. 243-52). Washington: Georgetown University Press.
7. Crampton, D. (1986) Language policy in Kenya. Rassegna Italiana Linguistica Applicata 18 (3), 109-22.
8. Daily Nation (1996) Nairobi - Kenya, August 1.
9. Gorman, T.P. (1974) The development of language policy in Kenya with particular reference to the educational system. In W.H. Whiteley (ed.) Language in Kenya. Nairobi: Oxford University Press.
10. Hocking, B.D.W. (1974) All What I Was Taught and Other Mistakes: A Handbook of Common Errors in English. Nairobi: Oxford University Press.
11. Kachru, B.B. (1982) Models in non-native Englishes. In B.B. Kachru (ed.) The Other Tongue: English Across Cultures (pp. 31-57). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
12. Kachru, B.B. (1985) Standards, codification and sociolinguistic realism: The English language in the outer circle. In R. Quirk and H.G. Widdowson (eds) English in the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
13. Kachru, B.B. (1986) The Alchemy of English: The Spread, Functions and Models of Non-native Englishes. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
14. Kachru, B.B. (1987) The spread of English and the sacred linguistic cows. In J.E. Alatis (ed.) GURT on Languages and Linguistics (pp. 207-28). Washington: Georgetown University Press.
15. Kachru, Y. (1993) Social meaning and creativity in Indian English speech acts. In J.E. Alatis (ed.) Language, Communication and Social Meaning. Washington: Georgetown University Press.
16. Kachru, B.B. (1994) The speaking tree: A medium of plural canons. In J.E. Alatis (ed.) GURT on Languages and Linguistics (pp. 6-22). Washington: Georgetown University Press.
17. Kachru, B.B. (1997) World Englishes and English-using communities. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 17, 66-87.
18. Kembo-Sure, S. (1994) Language attitudes, use and proficiency: A sociolinguistic study of English in Kenya. Unpublished PhD thesis, Moi University.
19. Kembo-Sure, S. (1996) Expression of national ethos in a non-native language. Journal of Third World Studies 8 (2), 189-208.
20. Kioko, A.N. (2000) A case for improved orthography. Paper presented at the First International Conference on African Languages, Maseno University, Kenya, 10-12 May 2000.
21. Kenya Institute of Education (1987) Handbook for Teachers of English in Secondary Schools in Kenya. Nairobi: Jomo Kenyatta Foundation.
22. KNEC (Kenya National Examinations Council) (1994) 1991 and 1992 KCSE Examination Report. Nairobi: Kenya National Examination Council.
23. Mazrui, A. (1992) The presidency and language in E. Africa. Sunday Nation, July 26,1992.
24. Mazrui, A.A. and Mazrui, A.M. (1995) Swahili State and Society: The Political Economy of an African Language. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers.
25. Mbaabu, I. (1996) Language Policy in East Africa. Nairobi: Educational Research and Publications.
26. McArthur, T. (1994) Organized Babel: English as a global Lingua Franca. In J.E. Alatis (ed.) GURT on Languages and Linguistics (pp. 233-242). Washington: Georgetown University press.
27. Musau, P.M. (1999) Constraints on the acquisition planning of indigenous African languages: The case of Kiswahili in Kenya. Language, Culture and Curriculum 12 (2), 117-27.
28. Musau, P.M. (2000) The development of African languages for modern discourse: The case of Kiswahili. Paper presented at the First International Conference on African Languages, Maseno University, Kenya, 10-12 May 2000.
29. Muthwii, M.J. (1994a) Kalenjin in Kenya: The socio-phonological interaction of an enthnic language with English and Kiswahili. Language Forum 2 (1), 1-48.
30. Muthwii, M.J. (1994b) Variability in language use: A study of Kalenjin speakers of English and Kiswahili in Kenya, Unpublished PhD thesis, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
31. Muthwii, M.J. and Lodge, K. (1995) Phonological variation in the speech of trilingual Kalenjin speakers in Kenya. Language Forum 3, 1-2.
32. Njoroge, K. (1987) The acquisition of six morpho-syntactic structures of English by Kenyan children. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
33. Njoroge, M.C. (1996) Morpho-syntactic errors in the written English of first year undergraduate students in Kenya. Unpublished MA thesis, Kenyatta University.
34. Nyamasyo, E.A. (1992) A corpusbased study of grammatical and lexical characteristics of the writing of Kenyan pre-university students. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Lancaster.
35. Nyamasyo, E.A. (1994) An analysis of the spelling errors in the written English of Kenyan pre-university students. Language, Culture Curriculum 7 (1), 79-92.
36. Ogutu, T.A. (1993) Towards standardisation of the Kenyan variety/varieties of English. In English Across the Curriculum - the Kenyan Context (pp. 76-85). Nairobi: British Council.
37. Platt, J., Weber, H. and Ho, M.L. (1984) The New Englishes. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
38. Quirk, R. and H.G. Widdowson. (1985) English in the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
39. Republic of Kenya (1999) Totally Integrated Quality Education and Training: Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Educational Sytem of Kenya.
40. Richards, J.C. (1982) Singapore English: Rhetorical and communicative styles. In B.B. Kachru (ed.) The Other Tongue: English Across Cultures (pp. 154-67). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press
41. Ryanga, C.W. (2000) National Identity and the Empowerment of Indigenous Languages. Paper presented at The First International Conference on African Languages, Maseno University, Kenya, 10-12 May 2000.
42. Schmied, J. (1990) Accepted language behaviour as a basis for language teaching: A comparison of English in Kenya and Tanzania. In C.M. Rubagumya (ed.) Language in Education in Africa (pp. 123-32). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
43. Whiteley, W.H. (ed.) (1974) Language in Kenya. Nairobi: Oxford University Press.
44. Zuengler, J.E. (1982) Kenyan English. In B.B. Kachru (ed.) The Other Tongue: English Across Cultures (pp. 112-24). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.