Senegal: Language and Diversity

Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teacher Activities

Student Engagement

Materials and Resources

Products

LESSON #3

  • Restate or elicit responses thru questions about the use of the dominant and official language (French) and the dominant African language (Wolof) in Senegal society

 

 

  • Individually have students read each document;
  • In small groups have students discuss meaning of each document and problems with policies of each document

 

  • PPT: Language-Senegal, Ruddy slides on French- #13, 31; slides on African Language-       #30, 49, 53, 61
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  • Handouts from Language Policy doc. excerpts

 

  • After discussing in small groups, have each student write a list of as many possible disadvantages if using only 1 or 2 languages in Senegal