- Title
- Multilingualism at work in South African Higher Education: From policy to practice
- Creator
- Maseko, Pamela
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2014
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468426
- Identifier
- vital:77053
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781783091669
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783091669
- Description
- Language policies published after the attainment of democracy in 1994, which are particularly applicable to HEIs, seek to guard against the use of language to perpetuate the inequalities and inequities of South African society in the past. The main goal of these policies is to promote linguistic and cultural diversity in HEIs as well as to prepare students to participate fully in our multilingual society, where multilingual proficiency is critical. English and Afrikaans are acknowledged as languages of research and scholarship in HE at present, but legislative policies applicable to language use and practices in HE make provision for preventing these languages from being used as a barrier to the access, retention and success of previously disadvantaged people (see Kotzé’s detailed discussion in Chapter 2). The indigenous African languages, which have, until now, had a minimal role in HE, are seen as critical for the attainment of the goals of the language policies. As a consequence, legislation on language in HE recommends that HEIs should rethink the place of these languages and, in line with national policy, should develop their own policies and implementation plans on the advancement, promotion and use of these languages.
- Format
- 17 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Multilingual Matters
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Maseko, P., 2014. Multilingualism at work in South African Higher Education: From policy to practice. Multilingual universities in South Africa, pp.28-45
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