Takam, Alain
Faculty
Modern Languages and Linguistics Department
- Phone
- (403) 329-2561
- alain.takam@uleth.ca
About Me
Rank: Associate Professor
Education:
•tPh.D. French Studies (Specialization: Linguistics), Dalhousie University, 2010
•tD.E.A. English Language and Linguistics, University of Yaoundé I (Cameroon), 2002
•tM.A English Language & Linguistics, University of Yaoundé I (Cameroon), 2000
•tM.A./M.Ed. French and English Studies, E.N.S, University of Yaoundé I (Cameroon), 1999
•tB.A. French and English Studies, University of Yaoundé I (Cameroon), 1997
Education:
•tPh.D. French Studies (Specialization: Linguistics), Dalhousie University, 2010
•tD.E.A. English Language and Linguistics, University of Yaoundé I (Cameroon), 2002
•tM.A English Language & Linguistics, University of Yaoundé I (Cameroon), 2000
•tM.A./M.Ed. French and English Studies, E.N.S, University of Yaoundé I (Cameroon), 1999
•tB.A. French and English Studies, University of Yaoundé I (Cameroon), 1997
Biography
Alain Takam is a former Killam Scholar from Dalhousie University. His current research focuses on language in education planning, that is, language planning as it relates to the teaching and learning of minority languages in a bilingual or multilingual context. He is also interested in endangered language revitalization, contact linguistics, language variation, the sociolinguistics of translation and socio-pragmatics.
Alain has extensive teaching experience both at the high school level (2000-2005) and university level (since 2005). Prior to joining the University of Lethbridge, he has taught French as a second language and Linguistics at Dalhousie University, Mount Saint Vincent University, Saint Mary's University, Université Sainte Anne, Lakehead University and the University of Waterloo.
Alain has extensive teaching experience both at the high school level (2000-2005) and university level (since 2005). Prior to joining the University of Lethbridge, he has taught French as a second language and Linguistics at Dalhousie University, Mount Saint Vincent University, Saint Mary's University, Université Sainte Anne, Lakehead University and the University of Waterloo.
Publications
Papers in press
Fasse, I.M. & Takam, A. F. The CLIL experience in Cameroon: historical development, current practices, and perspectives. To be published in The Routledge Handbook of Content and Language Integrated Learning (edited by Dario Banegas & Sandra Zappa-Hollman).
Takam, A.F. & Fasse, I. M. Policy around the Teaching of English in Technical Education in Cameroon: Achievements, Issues and Prospects from the Perspectives of Pedagogic Inspectors. Sage Open.
Fasse, I.M. & Takam, A. F. Towards the introduction of the teaching of technical English in Technical education in Cameroon: pre-requisites and prospects. Journal of Belonging, Identity, Language, and Diversity (J-BILD).
Refereed Journal Articles and books
2022 Takam, A. F. & Gillis, S. Participation and attitudes: an exploratory look into the current Ontario French as second language programme at the secondary school level. Canadian Modern Language Review / La Revue Canadienne des langues vivantes, 78(3), 198-220. https://doi.org/10.3138/cmlr-2021-0017
2022 Takam, A. F. & Gillis, S. Practices, challenges, and impacts of teaching and learning French as a second language in Ontario secondary schools: Focus on tech-oriented students. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 33(3), 493-507. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12442
2022 Takam, A. F. & Fassé, I. M. Perceptions of, and attitudes towards, English teaching and learning in Cameroon's technical education. International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 11(3), 1625-1636.
http://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v11i3.22550
2021 Takam, A. F. & Gillis, S. French as second language management in Ontario
Secondary Schools: Achievements, Issues and Prospects. SN Social Sciences, 1(6). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-021-00157-y
2020 Takam, A. F. The influence of (post-)colonial language policies on local
languages in Cameroon: An acquisition planning perspective. The Journal of African Policies Studies 26(1), 31-67.
2020 Gillis, S. & Takam, A. F. "The influence of (post-) colonial language policies on local languages in Cameroon: an acquisition planning perspective." The Journal of African Policies Studies 26(1), 31-67.
2020 Takam, A. F. & Fassé, I. M. English and French Bilingual Education and language policy in Cameroon: the bottom-up approach or the policy of no policy? Language Policy (LPOL) Journal 19(1), 61-86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-019-09510-7 (First published online in March 2019).
2019 Takam, A. F. Revitalisation of minority languages through the media: The Cameroon experience. In Kamtchueng, L., Tabe, C. & Nkemleke, D. (eds.), Language, Media and Technologies: Usages, Forms and Functions (pp. 6-41). Munich: LINCOM.
2018 Takam, A. F. & Fassé, I. M. Language policy in education: second official language in (technical) education in Canada and Cameroon. Journal of Education and Learning 7(4), 20-31.
2017 Takam, A.F. Revitalisation des langues minoritaires par les médias : étude de quelques stratégies de promotion des langues autochtones au Canada. Linguistica Atlantica 36(2), 111-139.
2016 Takam, A. F. Système de l'adresse et travail des faces au Cameroun: Vers une stratégie d'évitement des anthroponymes. In Bernard Mulo Farenkia (ed.), Im/politesse et rituels interactionnels en contextes plurilingues et multiculturels (pp. 121-152). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
2014 Takam, A. F. Some non-interference sources of Cameroon English usages. In Valentine Ubanako & Jemima Anderson (eds.), Crossing Linguistic Borders in Postcolonial Anglophone Africa (pp. 23-29). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2013 Takam, A. F. Explicating some prepositional usages in Cameroon English. English Today 29(4), 26-51. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078413000424
2013 Takam, A. F. Territorialisation comme stratégie de survie des langues minoritaires au Canada. Canadian Journal of Native Studies 33(1), 27-47.
2013 Takam, A. F. Aménagement de l'acquisition: du bilinguisme/trilinguisme fonctionnel à la pédagogie convergente. International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education 2(2), 93-106.
2012 Takam, A. F. Politiques linguistiques et gouvernementalité au Cameroun: quelques enseignements tirés de la résistance ethnolinguistique au Canada. In George Echu & Augustin E. Ebongue (eds.), Cinquante ans de bilinguisme officiel au Cameroun (pp. 43-64). Paris: L'Harmattan.
2011 Takam, A. F. Article use in Cameroon English and in non-standard British English. World Englishes 30(2), 269-279.
2008 Takam, A. F. Do Cameroonian women always speak a more refined language than men? In Bernard Farenkia (ed.), Linguistic Politeness in Cameroon (pp. 73-82). Frankfurt an Main: Peter Lang.
2007 Takam, A. F. Bilinguisme officiel et promotion de la langue minoritaire en milieu scolaire: le cas du Cameroun. Revue électronique internationale de sciences du langage SudLangues 7, 26-48.
2006 Takam, A. F. De la traduisibilité et de l'intraduisibilité : une approche linguistique de la traduction. Initiales 21. Dalhousie University, 84-95.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
2016 Takam, A. F. Revitalisation of indigenous languages in the Canadian school system: An analysis of some strategies and approaches. In A. Healey, R. Napoleão de Souza, P. Pešková & M. Allen (eds). Proceedings of the 11th High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS 11) Conference 11, (pp. 346-372). Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
2006 Takam, A. F. Logicalization as a strategy of rectification: The study of some Cameroon English grammatical usages. In M. Harry, S. Lahey & C. Beaudoin-Lietz (eds). (Elabotate versions of) Papers from the 30th APLA Meeting. Saint Mary's University, pp. 79-83.
Research Interests
•tApplied linguistics: minority language promotion and revitalization through education and media
•tSociolinguistics: language policy & planning; endangered languages; contact linguistics, socio-pragmatics, the sociolinguistics of translation
•tOfficial bilingualism in Cameroon and Canada
•tCameroon English
•tSociolinguistics: language policy & planning; endangered languages; contact linguistics, socio-pragmatics, the sociolinguistics of translation
•tOfficial bilingualism in Cameroon and Canada
•tCameroon English