Language rites: a symposium on language practices in South African higher education institutions
OUTPUT TYPE: Conference or seminar papers
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2019
TITLE AUTHOR(S): A.Mahali
KEYWORDS: BILINGUALISM, HIGHER EDUCATION, LANGUAGES
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11118
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15074
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15074
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2019
TITLE AUTHOR(S): A.Mahali
KEYWORDS: BILINGUALISM, HIGHER EDUCATION, LANGUAGES
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11118
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15074
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15074
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Abstract
South Africa should transform through encouraging bilingualism in all levels and spheres of society. We have had several policies and yet language and the way it is exercised is institutions remains a problem. endorsement of a monolingual English domination In 2016, the University of Pretoria made English its primary medium of instruction and Stellenbosch introduced a multilingual language policy, giving equal status to English and Afrikaans as mediums of instruction. The president of the convocation of Stellenbosch University, six others and the organisation Gelyke Kanse, took the university to court to demand that the new policy be reviewed and for Afrikaans to be used as a primary language of instruction. They argued that the policy infringed the rights of Afrikaans-speaking students, but the Western Cape high court dismissed the application in October.-
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