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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"official languages"”.
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Afrikaans in democratic South Africa :a survey of scholary contributions and tendentious reporting regarding the status of Afrikaans and the other official languages of South Africa
… regarding the status of Afrikaans and the other official languages of South Africa. As we move into the 21st century the .Afrikaans language has once more moved into a position of status, not for ideological purposes but for practical communication. Previously it was associated with the struggle …
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Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias
… the Wikipedias in ten of South Africa’s eleven official languages, and secondly of possible measures to address the situation discovered in the first investigative stage. The historical context is reviewed and it is argued that the number of official languages (and therefore Wikipedias) results …
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The role of a school community's perceptions of the implications of a change in language policy in a Western Cape primary school
… advocate the development and promotion of all official languages. LiEP also gives a clear directive for additive bilingualism whereby the home language of learners should be encouraged as the foundation for learning additional languages. This policy is clearly aligned with the constitutional …
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Language practice as an asset in a multilingual and multicultural context.
… one. The then South Africa used to have only two official languages, viz. English and Afrikaans. With the adoption of a new constitution the new South Africa now has eleven official languages. The previously marginalised nine indigenous languages, which are Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, IsiNdebele, …
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Development and empowerment of previously-marginalised languages: a case of African languages in South Africa
South Africa is a multilingual country with 11 official languages and 9 of these languages are Indigenous African languages. The South African government has developed policies and created an environment for these languages to be developed. National and provincial language policies have been …
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Negotiating identity in multilingual parliamentary discourses in the Western Cape: a discourse analysis
… due to the fact that before 1994, African languages were not considered official, but presently Afrikaans, English and isiXhosa are credited provincial official languages in the Western Cape and are amongst the eleven national official languages. In order to investigate how performative …
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Implementation of South African Government Language Policy in Public Institutions: A Case Study of Siloam Hospital
… in the constitutional recognition of twelve official languages, including the recent inclusion of South African Sign Language (SASL) in 2023, this study critically assessed how public healthcare institutions align with national and departmental language policies, specifically the National …
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Attitudes of Zulu matriculants in the uMlazi township towards isiZulu as a school subject
… is on isiZulu language, which is one of the official languages; this will then bring in the issues of language poBcy in Black South African schools. IsiZulu will then be compared with the dominant language, which is spoken by the participants of the research, and all the official languages …
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The Government of Canada’s Second Language Evaluation, Test of Written Expression: Exploring Validity
… light on issues with the implementation of the Official Languages Act within the public service, suggesting a bottom-up approach to address these issues.
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Arab immigrants in the Canadian labour market : expectations and compromises
… education and experience, length of residence, official languages proficiency (especially French), marital status and community support are major influences in their integration in the Montreal labour market. This thesis also examines the relationships among expectations, compromises and …
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INVESTIGATING THE INFLUENCE OF SINGAPORE'S LANGUAGE POLICIES ON FAMILY LANGUAGE POLICY AMONG TAMIL-INDIAN PARENTS IN SINGAPORE
… for their economic utility, Singapore’s other official languages, Malay and Tamil, have primarily been identified as anchors to cultural heritage. It is in this context that the present study examines Family Language Policy (FLP) among Tamil Singaporeans, specifically investigating how FLPs are …
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The Implementation of the South African Language Policy by Local Government. A Case Study.
… South African democratic government declared 11 languages as official. Section (6) of the Constitution stipulates that all 11 official languages should enjoy equal status. Amongst other things, language policies, language institutions, and legislations were established to assist in implementing …
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Building the Fransaskois Identity through Drama
… may resist the hegemony of the two distinct official languages and cultures of Canada in the process of defining the Fransaskois identity.
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Die vertaling en groepering van Landeskunde elemente in geselekteerde verhale van Bessie Head
… within the new South Africa with its eleven official languages. A selection of stories written by Bessie Head in which she tells stories about the customs and traditions of the Batswana were translated into Afrikaans. The stories on the Batswana culture were taken as representative of other …
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The phonological development of typically developing first language Zulu-speaking children aged 2;6 - 6;5 years : a descriptive cross-sectional study
Background: Zulu, one of the eleven official languages in South Africa, is the most spoken language in the country. However, research on children's phonological development in Zulu is minimal. To date there are no published Zulu speech assessments and associated normative data that speech-language …
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Choice of language for learning and assessment: the role of learner identity and perceptions in informing these choices
… The South Africa constitution recognizes eleven official languages and provides for education in these languages. At present, few parents opt to put their children in African language classrooms.This study explores the case of an inner-city school in Cape Town which offered limited provisions in …
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Language contact in two border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana. Lexical borrowings from French, English and African languages
… border community where English and French are official state languages and Dagara is the shared local language. Dagara is a language spoken by about 1,400,000 people in the Northwestern corner of Ghana, the Southwestern part of Burkina Faso and the Northeastern part of Côte d’Ivoire. This …
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A language in decline ? :a constrastive study of the use of, and motivation and de-motivation for, learning Afrikaans among two groups of learners at an English medium high school in Cape Town, South Africa
… replaced Dutch and became one of South Africa's official languages (along with English) from 1925. It reached the apex of its development and influence during the years of Nationalist party rule and the apartheid regime as a language of officialdom, of the judiciary and education. However, in …
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Afrikaans autism diagnostic observation schedule-2 : translation and cultural appropriateness for the coloured population from low-middle socioeconomic backgrounds living in the Western Cape
… and valid diagnostic tools for use in the official languages of the country. The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-2 (ADOS-2) is the "gold standard" diagnostic tool for ASD and it is increasingly used in South Africa. However, its use is limited to English-speakers, as the tool has not …
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Effective automatic speech recognition data collection for under–resourced languages
… transcribed speech corpora for under-resourced languages plays a pivotal role in developing automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies for such languages, a key step in developing these technologies is the effective collection of ASR data, consisting of transcribed audio and associated meta …
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