Browsing by Subject "Language policy"

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  • The bumpy road to mother tongue instruction in Malawi 

    Kamwendo, G.H. (Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2008-09)
    In 1996, the Ministry of Education in Malawi directed that in future Standards 1 to 4 would be taught through mother tongues. It took eight years before the pilot phase of the language policy could begin. The paper critically ...

  • The Khoisan in Botswana - Can multicultural discourses redeem them? 

    Chebanne, A. (Routledge (Taylor and francis) www.routledge.com, 2010)
    The Khoisan people are one of the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa. Botswana has the greatest diversity of these autochthonous communities. As ethnic minorities, they are characterized in the main by small ...

  • No easy walk to linguistic freedom: a ritique of language planning during south Africa's first decade of democracy 

    Kamwendo, G. H. (Nordic Association of African Studies. http://www.njas.helsinki.fi, 2006)
    In 1994, South Africans of all races and political parties took part in the first democratic elections. The election and inauguration of Nelson Mandela as the first black president marked the beginning of a new era - an ...

  • The training of teachers of African languages for primary schools in Botswana 

    Monaka, Kemmonye C.; Moumakwa, Tshiamiso V.; Mothei, Sidney (Journal of the Linguistics Association of Southern African Development Community Universities, journals.ub.bw/index.php/lasu, 2016-07-28)
    The training of teachers for indigenous languages in Botswana mirrors the language in education policy which recommends only two languages for school, of which Setswana is the only indigenous language. In addition to ...