- Title
- To be Xhosa or not to be Xhosa… that is the question:
- Creator
- De Klerk, Vivian A
- Date Issued
- 2010
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158096
- Identifier
- vital:40148
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01434630008666401
- Description
- It has long been recognised that indigenous languages are endangered because of powerful social, political and economic pressures. In South Africa, the legacy of apartheid has left its indigenous languages particularly vulnerable, and since 1994 huge efforts have been made to reverse the situation. Despite the new language policy and accompanying legislation, it would seem that many Xhosa speakers themselves want English, and not Xhosa,for their children. This paper reports on a multi-faceted quantitative and qualitative survey in and around Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province, which focused on the steady trickle of speakers of Xhosa into English-medium schools in thearea, and examined the reasons underlying decisions to send Xhosa children to these schools and the subsequent linguistic and psycho-social effects of the move on the children.
- Format
- 20 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of multilingual and multicultural development
- Relation
- De Klerk, V., 2000. To be Xhosa or not to be Xhosa… that is the question. Journal of multilingual and multicultural development, 21(3), pp.198-215
- Relation
- Journal of multilingual and multicultural development volume 21 number 3 198 215 March 2010 1747-7557
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