Research

Projects

  • Ethnographic monitoring: what role do Gambian languages play in education in The Gambia?
  • Gambian Languages and Education: seeking to understand the practices of multilingualism in primary schools in the Gambia.
  • Multilingual Teaching: one-week workshop with five teachers in the Gambia.
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Conferences

  • Upcoming: …
  • Previous: BAAL. ‘Transition in The Gambia: embracing societal multilingualism in lower basic education’; University of Essex. ‘Enhancing Literacy through the Use of National Languages in Gambian Primary Schools’; Universidade de Brasilia. ‘Language in education policy in The Gambia: What linguistic violence?’
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Publications

  • 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’. 
  • 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‘.
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