The role of Lingála spoken by Kinshasa chemistry teachers in the elaboration of specialized discourses
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- Bienvenu Sene Mongaba (UGent)
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- Abstract
- In Kinshasa, the capital of DR Congo, French is used as the language of instruction and Lingála as the default language of daily communication. However, students have a poor command of French. As shown elsewhere (Sene Mongaba 2011), now, in Kinshasa classrooms, there is a diglossic situation concerns the allocation of didactic functions of the same course between French and Lingála. French plays the role of written language (the course notes) and Lingála plays the role of oral language (the explanation of those course notes). The paper focuses on the characterization of the Lingála spoken by chemistry teachers. The discourse analyzed here was produced by teachers in the context of interviews (oral discourse) concerning the teaching of chemistry (specialized discourse). Our corpus-based work was conducted as follows: First, 22 teachers were interviewed on some chemistry topics (chemical reaction, chemical bond, chemical equation, solvent, solute and solution). The interviews were recorded and then a corpus was constituted from the transcripts of the recordings. The analysis of the answers allowed us to characterize the teachers’ code-switcing in the context of elicitation.
- Keywords
- elicitation, terminology, chemistry, specialized discourse, Congo, Lingala, code-switcing
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-3037218
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- Sene Mongaba, Bienvenu. “The Role of Lingála Spoken by Kinshasa Chemistry Teachers in the Elaboration of Specialized Discourses.” 43rd Annual Conference of African Linguistics, Proceedings, 2012.
- APA
- Sene Mongaba, B. (2012). The role of Lingála spoken by Kinshasa chemistry teachers in the elaboration of specialized discourses. 43rd Annual Conference of African Linguistics, Proceedings. Presented at the 43rd Annual Conference of African linguistics (ACAL - 2012), New Orleans, LA, USA.
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- Sene Mongaba, Bienvenu. 2012. “The Role of Lingála Spoken by Kinshasa Chemistry Teachers in the Elaboration of Specialized Discourses.” In 43rd Annual Conference of African Linguistics, Proceedings.
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- Sene Mongaba, Bienvenu. 2012. “The Role of Lingála Spoken by Kinshasa Chemistry Teachers in the Elaboration of Specialized Discourses.” In 43rd Annual Conference of African Linguistics, Proceedings.
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- 1.Sene Mongaba B. The role of Lingála spoken by Kinshasa chemistry teachers in the elaboration of specialized discourses. In: 43rd Annual Conference of African linguistics, Proceedings. 2012.
- IEEE
- [1]B. Sene Mongaba, “The role of Lingála spoken by Kinshasa chemistry teachers in the elaboration of specialized discourses,” in 43rd Annual Conference of African linguistics, Proceedings, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2012.
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