Browsing by Subject "language policy"
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Denigrating the local, glorifying the foreign: Malawian language policies in the era of African Renaissance
(Taylor & Francis, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals, 2010-12)Malawi's Vision 2020 document, a national document that serves as a vehicle to project a future for a more developed, secure and democratically mature nation, laments the tendency of Malawians to denigrade local products ... -
Investigating language vitality in some parts of North Eastern Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017)The main objective of this article is to investigate the level of language vitality in Botswana on the basis of patterns of language use, transgenerational language transmission, language attitudes and ethno-cultural ... -
Literacy, ethnolinguistic diversity and transitional bilingual education in Malawi
(Taylor & Francis, http://www.tandif.co.uk/journals, 2006)This paper examines recent attempts by the Malawi government to introduce local languages into the primary school system and other secondary domains of national life, breaking more than 30 years of Chichewa/English monopoly. ...