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Download full textTarisai Mpofu; Clever Ndebele – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2025
Translanguaging is increasingly recognized as an essential strategy to improve epistemic access in multilingual societies, including many developing societies. This view is especially spurred by scholarly results that have confirmed that all languages are essential resources for learning beyond the language of teaching and learning. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Translation, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty
Simthembile Xeketwana; Nobesuthu Xeketwana; Christine Anthonissen – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2025
Background: This study explores how family language policies (FLPs) in multilingual homes where isiXhosa is the primary language influence caregiver choices regarding children's language development and education. Objectives: The study aims to give insight on how non-nuclear family structures in a selected sample of Western Cape families are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Language Usage, Language Planning
Direct linkDavid Lasagabaster – Language Policy, 2025
South Africa immediately springs to mind as the epitome of multilingual language policies. In fact, its Constitution granted official status to 11 languages in 1996, and the Language Policy in Higher Education passed by the Ministry of Education in 2002 required universities to develop and use the indigenous official languages as academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Language Planning, Student Attitudes
Julliet Munyaradzi – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
The global spread and hegemony of English as a medium of teaching, learning and research has come to be closely associated with neoliberalisation of higher education in the universities across the world, and has negatively impacted on epistemic issues, especially in Global South universities. No permanent solution has been found on challenges of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Language Planning, Educational Policy
