Prestige Planning for Vernacular Language Education around the World: Successes and Failures

Abstract

This chapter offers a survey of case studies of language policies promoting vernacular language education in various communities around the world. The aim of these studies is to show that vernacular language education has succeeded wherever it has been associated with an economic value. The absence of that value, the chapter argues, is the catalyst for vernacular language education failure in the African continent. Furthermore, the chapter considers case studies of Prestige Planning failure, or “resistance of vernacular education,” and then discusses the consequences of language policy failure in Africa for African languages and for their speakers. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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