LESSON #5
Pose the questions below to each group;
Circulate and facilitate discussion
Ask students to:
- Make inferences and draw conclusions about the situation and difficulties facing various ethno-linguistic groups in Senegal;
- What are advantages to speaking more than 1 or 2 languages in Senegal?
- Consider how globalization affects the power and influence of 1 or 2 dominant languages in Senegal?
- How do these experiences relate to the situation of dominant/ dominated language in the United States?
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- Students work in 4 small groups discuss remaining questions in teacher column
- 4 groups report one of their findings to whole class
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- Begin class with a 5 minute video clip Mandabi, by Ousmane Sembène
OR
- Another Sembène film which uses multiple languages:
- (clips available on YouTube.)
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- Have each student write a list of difficulties in speaking to others who did not share the same language; and how they overcame these difficulties?
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