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- Title
The Use of Setswana as a Medium of Instruction, A Core Subject and A National Language: Is It Not A Negation Of Affirmative Action?
- Authors
Jeremiah, Koketso
- Abstract
This paper examines the use of Setswana as a medium of instruction and as a core subject in primary schools, as a core subject and a medium of instruction in junior and senior secondary schools in Botswana, and as a national language. It argues that when Setswana is used as a medium of instruction and as a core subject in primary schools, students whose mother tongue is not Setswana are academically and culturally disadvantaged, and when it is used as a medium of instruction and as a core subject in junior and senior secondary schools, non-native Setswana students are also academically and culturally disadvantaged. It further argues that when Setswana is used as a national language, non-native Setswana speakers are disadvantaged in other spheres of life, for example, in employment. It gives examples of language policies that Botswana can adopt to solve the problems posed by its current language policy.
- Subjects
BOTSWANA; SECONDARY education; LANGUAGE &; languages; SCHOOLS; TSWANA language
- Publication
Language in India, 2008, Vol 8, Issue 11, p9
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article