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Title Language of instruction in education in Africa: how new questions help generate new answers
Full text https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3243758
Date 2021
Author(s) Pinxteren, L.M.C. van
Abstract This paper reviews the major arguments used over the years in favour of mother-tongue instruction in Africa. It analyses the reasons that have been given for the lack of progress made. It suggests that the current Western paradigms obstruct a view of current and expected developments in this area. It offers a new analysis, based on the evolution of enrolment rates in education. The paper argues that in the next decade or so, a transition to using<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/african-languages" title="Learn more about African languages from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages">African languagesmore at all levels of education will become unavoidable. - Language Use in Past and Present
Subject(s) Language of Instruction; Language Maintenance; Enrolment Rate; Comparative Education; Sub-Saharan Africa
Language en
Type of publication Article / Letter to editor; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; Text
Format application/pdf
Source International Journal of Educational Development
Rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Identifier doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102524; lucris-id:432333415
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
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