- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- The attitudes of camaroon higher education students studying at the university of yaounde and colleges and universities in the united states toward the bilingual policy of the camaroon government and the implications for camaroon education
- Creator:
- Masange, E. Konfor
- Date of Original:
- 1989-06
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- PROBLEM This study had two foci, first, to explore, document and analyze the attitudes of Cameroon higher education students toward the bilingual policy of the Cameroon government. Second, to determine the extent to which these attitudes have a bearing on individual student's ability to resolve the multiple conflicts that arise in a society with complex linguistic paradigms. PURPOSE The crucial concerns, interalia, were the extent to which bilingualism is fostered, the degree to which bilingualism enhances social and political harmony and if the bilingual policy advances Cameroon diplomacy, education, and economy. PROCEDURE A random sample of 83 Cameroon higher education students studying at the University of Yaounde and at colleges and universities in the United States was surveyed by use of a questionnaire. The instrument was divided into two parts. Part one solicited demographic information on the subjects - sex, marital status, degrees sought, place where they are studying, levels of bilingualism, and whether they were Anglophone or Francophone. Part two was a 61 item attitude survey categorized under eight concepts - utilization of bilingualism, bilingualism and social harmony, international relations and bilingualism, economics and bilingualism, bilingualism and political harmony, education and bilingualism, bilingualism as a realistic linguistic policy, and career choices and bilingualism. Nine hypotheses were postulated to clarify the differences and variations in attitudes - these were (1) differences between male/female, (2) students at the University of Yaounde / those in U.S. universitites, (3) Anglophone/ Francophone, (4) married/unmarried, (5) subjects who had children / those with none, (6) choice of public/private careers, and the variations among groups - (7) on the bases of their various levels of bilingualism, (8) on the bases of various degrees sought, and (9) on the bases of their age groups. The level of significance for the study was set st 0.05. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS The results of the study seemed to support the literature on the subject, that the attitudes toward bilingualism were inconclusive. H�! was partially rejected at 0.008 level of significance on the bases of the social harmony concept. H�2 was partially rejected at 0.016 on the bases of the concept of career choices. was partially rejected at 0.007 on the basis of social harmony, at 0.000 on political harmony, and at 0.000 on education and bilingualism. H'�4 was partially rejected at 0.042 on the concept of utilization. H�5 was partially rejected at 0.036 level on the basis of education and bilingualism. H�6 was maintained. H�7 was partially rejected at .033 on utilization, at 0.034 on education and bilingualism. H�8 was maintained. H�S was rejected at 0.001 level of significance on the concept of career choices. It could, therefore., be concluded that bilingualism had failed to resolve social and political harmony, the essential issues for which it was engineered.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1989_masanje_e_k
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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