Multilingualism, language policy and creative writing in Kenya
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Multilingualism, language policy and creative writing in Kenya
Language use and creative writing go hand in hand. In the process of exploring language, we also engage in the study of literature. An engagement with literature is, indeed, a continuing process of improving our capacity to use language and refining our sensibility to good language use. In Kenya, there are clearly discernible patterns of creative writing which may be linked to language policies...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Multilingual Education
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2191-5059
DOI: 10.1186/s13616-014-0019-9