- Title
- African Languages And ICT Education
- Creator
- Dalvit, Lorenzo
- Creator
- Murray, Sarah
- Creator
- Terzoli, Alfredo
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2011
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/431166
- Identifier
- vital:72750
- Identifier
- https://www.scitepress.org/Papers/2011/33507/33507.pdf
- Description
- In South Africa, English plays a dominant role compared to African lan-guages in empowering domain. Better access to Education through the use of African languages is an object of heated debate. This paper shows that an intervention involving the use of an African language in the domain of ICT Education can change the attitudes of Black universi-ty students. The methodology used included a survey with preliminary and follow-up questionnaires and interviews and an intervention involv-ing the use of localised software and of an on-line glossary of computer terms translated, explained and exemplified in an African language (isiXhosa). This experience increased the support for the use of African languages as additional LoLT, even in the English-dominated field of study of Computer Science. This is an initial step towards promoting linguistic equality between English and African languages and social equality between their speakers.
- Format
- 8 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU-2011)
- Relation
- Dalvit, L., Murray, S. and Terzoli, A., 2011. African Languages And ICT Education. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU-2011)
- Relation
- Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU-2011) volume 2011 number 1 1 8 2011 Conference
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU) Statement (https://researchr.org/publication/csedu-2011-1)
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Terzoli, Alfredo (Prof)
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RU Department of Computer Science
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SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
SDG 04. Quality Education
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