Many migrant parents are hesitant to pass their language accent onto their children. They fear this may lead them to experience discrimination. But speaking two languages has many advantages.
Language policy implementation in education must take greater cognisance of the relationship between education and the economy.
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Researchers have been calling for the extension of mother-tongue instruction beyond the current status quo in South African schools, but parents seem to prefer an even earlier transition to English.
Police officers are expected to take statements without any real training in the process.
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Why the lives of bilingual dementia patients can be transformed by finding carers who speak their native language.
Each of South Africa’s former presidents treated the state broadcaster very differently. From left Jacob Zuma, Nelson Mandela, and Thabo Mbeki (2008).
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The South African Broadcasting Corporation, like South Africa itself, is a symbol of contradictions. While there are bad people who work for it, there are also many good ones.
When professionals, like pharmacists, are able to communicate in many languages, everyone benefits.
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Vocation specific language courses can encourage both linguistic and cultural awareness. They can equip students with the basics they need to communicate.
Learning in their mother tongue facilitates children’s ability to learn another language.
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Despite reports that multilingual students’ academic progress has ‘stalled,’ researchers find new reasons to be optimistic about how they are faring in US schools.
Andre Ramos, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) and Marina Empinotti, University of Beira Interior
The combination of knowledge and communication, along with a few other fundamental conditions such as liberty and respect , leads to social, cultural and technological development.
Leaders use translators during the inauguration of President Mr João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço of Angola.
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Raising the status of the African languages to that of official languages in South Africa post-1994 led to an explosion of translation and interpreting work in local and foreign languages.