Learning science through two languages in South Africa

Title: Learning science through two languages in South Africa
Creator: Probyn, Margie J
Date Issued: 2005
Date: 2005
Type: Conference paper
Identifier: vital:7015
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007208
Description: [From the introduction]: South Africa is a multilingual country with eleven national languages - nine indigenous languages and the two former colonial languages of English and Afrikaans1 - recognised as official languages in the Constitution of 1996 (Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996). Despite these provisions, since the democratic elections of 1994 English has expanded its position as the language of access and power with the relative influence of Afrikaans shrinking, and African languages effectively confined to functions of ‘home and hearth’. McLean and McCormick (1996: 329 in Mazrui 2002: 269) suggest that the constitutional recognition of 11 official languages in South Africa is largely 'intended and perceived as a symbolic statement and that for instrumental purposes, English remains the dominant language in South Africa'.
Format: 21 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Probyn, M.J. (2005) Learning science through two languages in South Africa. In: ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA., USA, pp. 1855-1873. Available: http://www.cascadilla.com/isb4.html. ISBN 9781574731071. http://www.cascadilla.com/isb4.html

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