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Norbert Mtavangu

Norbert Bartholomew Mtavangu

Senior Lecturer

College of Humanities

Foreign Languages and Linguistics

Biography

• Nationality: Tanzanian • Date and place of birth: 29th April 1969, Mufindi Tanzania • Education level: PhD in Linguistics • Languages : Kihehe, Kiswahili, English, French II: EDUCATION BACKGROUND: • 2009-2013 PhD INALCO, Paris • December 2006 DALF I French Ministry of Education • December 2005 DALF II French Ministry of Education • Nov 2004 DELF II : French Ministry of Education • Mar 2004 DELF I French Ministry of Education • Sept 1999-Jun 2002 : Master of Arts in Linguistics-University of Dar es Salaam • Sept 1994- June 1998 : Bachelor of Arts (Education)- (English and French) University of Dar es Salam . • July 1990-May 1992: Advanced Secondary Education (KLF)- Milambo. • Jan 1986-Nov 1989 : Malangali Secondary school. • Jan 1979-Oct 1985 Ikwega Primary School

Research Interest

Bantu language morphosyntax Teaching and learning of French in Tanzania

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Projects

The work of Charles Sacleux in swahili research

 

Publications

• 2023. Ukuaji wa Lugha ya Kiswahili Miongoni mwa Lugha za Kiafrika na Kigeni. Kiswahili • 2019- Place names as reservoirs of rare linguistic data: Evidence from Bantu locative prefix i- in south-west Tanzania toponyms, in UTAFITI Journal vol 14 issue 2 pages 1-24. • 2019- Ninogeshe: strategic selection of value adding terms in advertisement and slogan creation by corporations in Dar es salaam, in Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, vol 13 issue 2 pages 50-65. • 2017- ‘The Tanzania Multilingual state: Hostility towards it and strategy to protect it’ in Negga, Cham and Szirmai (eds) Language Policy, ideology and Educational practices in a globalized World, éditions des archives contemporains, • 2016 Classificatory and expressive functions of nominal prefix in Hehe in Sylverster Osu (Ed), Noveaux regards sur la classification norminale dans les languages africaines, Born: Peter Lang • 2013, La contribution des Français à l’étude de Swahili: le cas de Charles Sacleux (1856-1943), unpublished PhD thesis, INALCO. • 2009 « Charles Sacleux, figure pionnière des études sur le kiswahili » in La G@zette.tz, Le journal de l’Association Tanzanienne des Enseignants de Français (ATEF), numero 0, p 9. • 2008 Hali ya Lugha za Tanzania Kiuchumi, in Occasional papers in Linguistic 2 Languages of Tanzania Project, Dar es Salaam, 2008 • 2008 ‘Tense and Aspect in Ikihehe, in’ Occasional papers in Linguistic 3, Languages of Tanzania Project, Dar es Salaam., • 2002: Students’ Attitudes towards French Language and Socio-economic Benefits Accruing from learning it. (Unpublished M.A Dissertation). • 1998: The language choice in churches in Dar Salaam (Unpublished Paper)