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| Roos, Riana | 1 |
| Van der Walt, Christa | 1 |
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Peer reviewedRoos, Riana – Language Awareness, 1997
Discusses the language policy existing in the "New South Africa," which provides for the use of 11 official languages. The article argues that this policy poses challenges and that the development process is complicated by attitudes that indigenous languages are inferior to English and other Western languages. The study explores the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Developing Nations, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedVan der Walt, Christa – Language Awareness, 1997
Argues that critical awareness of the role of the emergent South African English is dependent upon (1) the acknowledgement of the first languages of learners to prevent loss or down-grading of first-language cultures, and (2) the development of techniques by which learners' first languages can be used more explicitly in classrooms where English is…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Maintenance, Cultural Pluralism, English (Second Language)
