- Title
- Power to the minorities: Ndebele L1–speaking teachers in Tonga-speaking communities in Zimbabwe
- Creator
- Maseko, Busani
- Creator
- Nkomo, Dion
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2024
- Date
- 2024
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468064
- Identifier
- vital:77004
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781003299547
- Identifier
- https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003299547-2/power-minorities-busani-maseko-dion-nkomo
- Description
- In 2013, Zimbabwe adopted a new constitution that declared 16 officially recognised languages. In line with the new constitutional provision that all the official languages be treated with parity, the teaching of minority languages ceased to be optional. Yet there were neither trained teachers nor educational materials to implement their teaching. In this chapter, it is examined how Ndebele L1 teachers and learners in the Tonga-speaking community of Binga negotiate their identities by learning Tonga. Ndebele L1 learners learn Tonga as the new legitimate Indigenous language offered in their schools, which brings interesting dynamics in terms of language learning challenges and attitudes. Ndebele L1 teachers must reinvent themselves to assume the instructional responsibilities in the learning of the minority language and to retain their jobs. These teachers therefore learn the languages from the community including their own learners, thereby providing an exciting case of speakers of majority language speakers learning a minority language that they also must teach. This study therefore presents an interesting case where minority language–speaking learners and majority language–speaking teachers collaboratively and reciprocally participate in the teaching of the minority language.
- Format
- 23 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Maseko, B. and Nkomo, D., 2024. Power to the minorities: Ndebele L1–speaking teachers in Tonga-speaking communities in Zimbabwe. In The Minority Language as a Second Language (pp. 16-38). Routledge
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