Publication: Estudios hispánicos en África anglófona en la era de la crisis económica: ¿el español lengua extranjera (ELE) tiene un futuro en Nigeria?
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Essoh Ndobo, Eugenie Grace
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Universidad de Murcia, Editum
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Abstract
La crisis económica que desde hace años sacude el conjunto de los países de la
Unión Europea ha incitado
a
España a revisar su cooperación cultural en África.
Esta revisión ha afectado, ne
gativamente, la enseñanza, la expansión y hasta la
supervivencia de la lengua española en el continente negro. En efecto, varias
fuentes apuntan que, a causa de esta revisión, la lengua española está
perdiendo su dinamismo comparado con las lenguas competi
doras como el
italiano, el mandarín y el inglés, hasta en países francófonos tales como
Ca
merún y Gabón que desde décadas
adoptaron las políticas didácticas y
lingüísticas favorables para el aprendizaje y la expansión del ELE. Si tal
escenario lamentable e
s observado en los países francófonos más arriba citados,
¿cuál podría ser el caso de Nigeria donde la lengua española sólo está en la fase
de introducción en el sistema educativo del país?
Apoyándose en observaciones
críticas y una explotación pensada de
fuentes secundarias, este artículo trata de
resolver esta preocupación.
El artículo aborda más precisamente las
posibilidades de la expansión del español en Nigeria, sus perspectivas en el país
y las vías y los medios que pueden contribuir a su aprendizaje
/ expansión en el
futuro.
The financial crisis – which is rocking European Union members since 2007 – has motivated Spain to review its cultural cooperation in Africa. Such a revision has negatively affected the teaching, expansion (and even survival) of the Spanish language in the Black continent. In effect, this revision has caused Spanish to be less pre sent than competing tongues such as Italian, Mandarin and English even in countries such as Cameroon and Gabon which, for decades now, have adopted language policies that are favourable to Spanish. If such a negative scenario is observable in the two above mentioned countries, what could be the situation in a country like Nigeria where the teaching of Spanish is yet to be fully included in the country’s educational system? Hinging on critical observations and secondary sources, this paper attempts to answer to the above mentioned question. It specifically explores the weight and prospects of the Spanish language in Nigeria as well as the factors that could contribute to a greater expansion of the language in the country.
The financial crisis – which is rocking European Union members since 2007 – has motivated Spain to review its cultural cooperation in Africa. Such a revision has negatively affected the teaching, expansion (and even survival) of the Spanish language in the Black continent. In effect, this revision has caused Spanish to be less pre sent than competing tongues such as Italian, Mandarin and English even in countries such as Cameroon and Gabon which, for decades now, have adopted language policies that are favourable to Spanish. If such a negative scenario is observable in the two above mentioned countries, what could be the situation in a country like Nigeria where the teaching of Spanish is yet to be fully included in the country’s educational system? Hinging on critical observations and secondary sources, this paper attempts to answer to the above mentioned question. It specifically explores the weight and prospects of the Spanish language in Nigeria as well as the factors that could contribute to a greater expansion of the language in the country.
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