A much more flexible and open teaching and language policy would help teachers and pupils to enable a meaningful learning environment in a multilingual and diverse classroom setting.
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South Africa must be seen as a country for speakers of all its official languages rather than an English-only elite.
Child refugees need to have access to quality language programs so they have a chance at doing well at school - and teachers also need to be given appropriate training.
Those who don’t want Stellenbosch University to make English the main language of instruction have invoked South Africa’s Constitution - but the assumptions underlying their arguments are false.
The stories of and attitudes to three particular languages – English, Swahili and Luganda – provide an interesting starting point for a debate around Uganda’s language policy.
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Professor of African Language Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer, Department of African Languages, Makerere University
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Lecturer in African Languages, Makerere University
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Distinguished Professor Faculty of Law, Stellenbosch University
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Distinguished Professor and H F Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law, Stellenbosch University
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Postdoctoral research fellow (Forensic Linguistics/ Language and Law), University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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NRF SARChI Chair Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, School of African Languages, Rhodes University
