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2 Algeria

  • Karima Ait Dahmane
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Abstract

This chapter highlights several aspects of the sociolinguistic situation in Algeria during and after the colonial period. How is the French language represented in history and today? What languages are taught at school and at university? How to manage within the framework of Algerian multilingualism the relationship with the French language and the promotion of national languages (Arabic and Tamazight)? Will French disappear in the face of the emergence of English? These questions make it possible to put, on the one hand, language teaching policy back into a historical perspective and, on the other hand, to discuss the model of the monolingual state. To illustrate our point, we use legislative texts, school directives, surveys, and other official texts which define the linguistic and educational policies of the country since its independence, and we then focus on the linguistic characteristics of the French spoken in Algeria. Finally, we will have a look at linguistic representations, stereotypes, and attitudes towards languages.

Abstract

This chapter highlights several aspects of the sociolinguistic situation in Algeria during and after the colonial period. How is the French language represented in history and today? What languages are taught at school and at university? How to manage within the framework of Algerian multilingualism the relationship with the French language and the promotion of national languages (Arabic and Tamazight)? Will French disappear in the face of the emergence of English? These questions make it possible to put, on the one hand, language teaching policy back into a historical perspective and, on the other hand, to discuss the model of the monolingual state. To illustrate our point, we use legislative texts, school directives, surveys, and other official texts which define the linguistic and educational policies of the country since its independence, and we then focus on the linguistic characteristics of the French spoken in Algeria. Finally, we will have a look at linguistic representations, stereotypes, and attitudes towards languages.

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