LANGUAGES AND EDUCATION IN AFRICA (LEA)
Oslo, June 19-22, 2006

This conference offered international and multidisciplinary perspectives on issues concerning languages and education
in Africa.

Participants who presented papers during the LEA Conference parallel sessions and agreed to have them published on-line are now available under the PROGRAM link. The LEA Conference book publication will be completed in March 2007.

Conference themes included:

• Language policy
• Multilingualism
• Literacy in African languages
• Language as medium of instruction and as a subject
• Teacher training
• Educational materials
• Lexicography and lexicology
• Grammatical descriptions
• Standardization
• Sign language in an African context
• Language mastery, learning, and mediation

Welcome to Oslo !