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Direct linkKamwendo, Gregory Hankoni – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
In 1996, the Ministry of Education in Malawi directed that in future Standards 1 to 4 would be taught through mother tongues. It took eight years before the pilot phase of the language policy could begin. The paper critically analyses this situation using Bamgbose's framework which says that, in Africa, language policies tend to follow one or more…
Descriptors: Language Planning, African Languages, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries
