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Community Elders' Narrative Accounts of "Ubuntu" Translanguaging: Learning and Teaching in African Education
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Makalela, Leketi – International Review of Education, 2018
While South Africa has been lauded as a multilingual country that accorded official status to 11 languages, the academic notion of multilingualism has always been conceived from a monolingual perspective. Monolingual ideologies, which inadvertently favoured European languages to the detriment of local languages, were passed on to African countries…
Descriptors: African Culture, Multilingualism, Monolingualism, African Languages