Multilingualism and Education Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa  

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Kamwangamalu, Nkonko M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Problems and Language Planning vol. 21 no. 3 (1997), page 234-253.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LPL/21 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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When South Africa liberated itself from apartheid in April 1994, one of the immediate problems that it faced was what it would do with the two languages, English and Afrikaans, which it inherited from previous governments, the colonial and the apartheid governments. This paper examines South Africa's answer to the problem, the recently adopted eleven-official-languages policy, with a focus on the current debate on mother-tongue education vs. education in a foreign language, English or Afrikaans. It is argued that for the new education policy to achieve its intended objective, which is to promote mother-tongue education, then mother-tongue education needs to be "cleansed" of the stigma with which it was associated in the apartheid era. Suggestions are made as to how the "cleansing" can be done without undermining the role and importance of English and Afrikaans in the country's efforts to build a new, and more equitable, nation.

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