Browsing by Subject "Dominant language"
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The epistemology of (m)other tongue(s): What does this mean for language in education?
(AOSIS, 2021)Background: The promotion of ‘mother tongue’ is at the core of the global education agenda. Aim: This article explored the problematic nature of the mother tongue concept, and the subsequent effects it has on language ... -
FAMILY LANGUAGE POLICY: delibrate decisions by parents to educate their children via Afrikaans despite access to English in the family
(North-West University, 2019)Despite an expressed awareness of the hegemony and high status of English in the world today, there are English dominant and English-Afrikaans families within the Vaal Triangle Region, who opt for Afrikaans as the language ...