Globalization, Language, and Literacy

Artifact Box Contents

  1. Photo: Artifact 1Item Name: Map of Dakar, Senegal
    Description: Typically used by foreigners to learn their way around the city of Dakar
    Used in: Lesson 3: Explaining the context.
  2. Photo: Artifact 2Item Name: Say it in Wolof – a booklet that helps language users learn beginning Wolof
    Description: Typically used by foreigners to learn Wolof, the lingua franca in Senegal
    Used in: Lesson 3: Explaining the context
    Used in: Lesson 4: Culture and Language Policy
  3. Photo: Artifact 3Item Name: Trilingual Dictionary in French, English and Wolof
    Description: An introduction to 1000 words in three different languages.
    Used in: Lesson 4: Culture and Language Policy
  4. Photo: Artifact 4Item Name: Go for English - books 5 and 6
    Description: Book used in some schools to help students learn English
    Used in: Lesson 4: Culture and Language Policy
  5. Photo: Artifact 5Item Name: The long history of cloth (La Longue Histoire du Pagne) – This book is written in French
    Description: This book demonstrates that cloth is part of the culture of African peoples, and that it represents a form of art and identity (see page 3)
    Used in: Lesson 5: Importance and role of literacy
  6. Photo: Artifact 6Item Name: The messages of cloth (Les Messages du Pagne) – This book is written in French
    Description: This book outlines the various messages that are hidden in cloth.
    Used in: Lesson 5: Importance and role of literacy
    The messages hidden in cloth as a form of literacy.
  7. Photo: Artifact 7 Item Name: Two pieces of cloth that are represented in the book, Les Messages du Pagne.
    Description: These pieces of cloth depict the following messages: (1) about veiled challenges, i.e., we are no in the same social class; we do not have the same water (flowers/vines), (2) the hand of the leper, evokes three sayings about relief, courage, hope and acceptance of reality (see page 64)
    Used in: Lesson 5: Importance and role of literacy
  8. Photo: Artifact 8 Item Name: One painting of a Baobab Tree
    Description: The Baobab tree is currently a place for community gatherings and is considered a symbolic place for gaining wisdom from ancestors (Cultural Connections, 2011).
    Used in: Lesson 5: Importance and role of literacy