Learning in their mother tongue facilitates children’s ability to learn another language.
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The International Year of Indigenous Languages serves as a good impetus to start implementing policies that prioritises Africa's own languages.
There’s no reason Africa shouldn’t be at the centre of global knowledge production.
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Africa's current situation has a parallel in European history - the Reformation and the changes it wrought in terms of language exceptionalism.
Africa’s massive variety of languages should be celebrated and used in tertiary education.
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Africa needs a new strategy for mother-tongue based bilingual education, from primary through to tertiary level.
Small conversation or oral groups help people to learn a new language. When classes get too big, it’s impossible to teach in this way.
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It is important that all South Africans learn to speak an African language. But is making a single language a compulsory university subject the best way to make this happen?