A theoretical model for a Fang-French-English Specialized multi-volume school dictionary
Date
2007-03
Authors
Ella, Edgard Maillard
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Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch
Abstract
The policy to preserve and implement mother tongues as medium of education in Gabon
will lead to the establishing of a bilingual education system. This system will involve
mother tongues and French, the official language. In many countries people are nowadays
more and more aware of making provision for a multilingual education. In education this
has been regarded as the new way and key to development over the last decades. It means
that the implementation of a bilingual education system must also include a trilingual
vision. Different and new approaches to the role of dictionaries, also in the context in
Gabon, lead to diverse areas of particular concern, which are challenging for the
metalexicographical research.
Accordingly, Part I of the dissertation first presents a comprehensive draft of the
structural possibilities of the formulation and compilation of a new type of dictionary.
This draft provides for the motivations for the formulation of a Specialized Fang-French-
English multi-volume School Dictionary in Gabon, as a type of dictionary, which can fit
into the current situation of the national languages and education in Gabon. This
comprehensive draft is followed by a complete analysis of the intended target users, who
are, among others, students, teachers, educational psychologists, experts in charge of the
compilation of textbooks and other study materials, lexicographers and linguistics. This
analysis includes the characteristics, the user situations and the user problems or needs of
this heterogeneous intended target user group of the proposed dictionary...
Description
Thesis (DLitt (English)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007.
Keywords
Theses -- English, Dissertations -- English