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"The Burden of Diversity": The Sociolinguistic Problems of English in South Africa
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Ntombela, Berrington X. S. – English Language Teaching, 2016
At the emergence of democracy in South Africa the government corrected linguistic imbalances by officialising eleven languages. Prior to that only English and Afrikaans were the recognised official languages. The Black population had rejected the imposition of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction. However, such rejection did not mean the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Indo European Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning