The present study discusses child marriage in Mozambique, practices, beliefs and implications for girls' schooling in the rural context, focusing on primary schools in rural areas. It is a theme that constitutes the ...

Every human society has linguistic means to express or demonstrate respect for each other. This study aims to explore the differences and similarities between the Changana spoken in Mozambique and the one spoken in South ...

Public opinion and some academic literature claim that Civil Society Organizations in Mozambique have no autonomy given the fact that for their survival depend on foreign aid (donor funding). Taking into consideration ...

The aim of this Afterword is to foreground and discuss some of the key themes emerging from the four studies in this special issue. I first consider the critical eth- nographic approach to language policy and planning ...

Over the past decade and a half, large-scale investments in natural resources in African countries have increased dramatically. While investments in natural resources and agriculture have become more important for African ...

Combining discourse analysis and ethnographic methods, I explore language practices in the classroom and bilingual education teachers’ beliefs and attitudes toward the use of pupils’ first language in the teaching and ...

Os níveis de participação e de interacção dos alunos no programa transicional em Moçambique são qualitativamente elevados nas primeiras três classes leccionadas em língua materna. Os alunos e o professor colaboram activamente ...