Globalization, Language, and Literacy
Artifact Box Contents
Item Name: Map of Dakar, Senegal
Description: Typically used by foreigners to learn their way around the city of Dakar
Used in: Lesson 3: Explaining the context.
Item Name: Say it in Wolof – a booklet that helps language users learn beginning Wolof
Description: Typically used by foreigners to learn Wolof, the lingua franca in Senegal
Used in: Lesson 3: Explaining the context
Used in: Lesson 4: Culture and Language Policy
Item Name: Trilingual Dictionary in French, English and Wolof
Description: An introduction to 1000 words in three different languages.
Used in: Lesson 4: Culture and Language Policy
Item Name: Go for English - books 5 and 6
Description: Book used in some schools to help students learn English
Used in: Lesson 4: Culture and Language Policy
Item Name: The long history of cloth (La Longue Histoire du Pagne) – This book is written in French
Description: This book demonstrates that cloth is part of the culture of African peoples, and that it represents a form of art and identity (see page 3)
Used in: Lesson 5: Importance and role of literacy
Item Name: The messages of cloth (Les Messages du Pagne) – This book is written in French
Description: This book outlines the various messages that are hidden in cloth.
Used in: Lesson 5: Importance and role of literacy
The messages hidden in cloth as a form of literacy.
Item Name: Two pieces of cloth that are represented in the book, Les Messages du Pagne.
Description: These pieces of cloth depict the following messages: (1) about veiled challenges, i.e., we are no in the same social class; we do not have the same water (flowers/vines), (2) the hand of the leper, evokes three sayings about relief, courage, hope and acceptance of reality (see page 64)
Used in: Lesson 5: Importance and role of literacy
Item Name: One painting of a Baobab Tree
Description: The Baobab tree is currently a place for community gatherings and is considered a symbolic place for gaining wisdom from ancestors (Cultural Connections, 2011).
Used in: Lesson 5: Importance and role of literacy