Publications

Publication details [#51543]

Letsholo, Rose. 2009. Language maintenance or shift? Attitudes of Bakalanga youth towards their mother tongue. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 12 (5) : 581–595.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language attitude | language maintenance | language shift | multilingualism | youth

Language as a subject

English | Ikalanga | Setswana

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This analysis of Botswana's Bakalanga youth's attitudes towards their minority Ikalanga mother tongue, clearly reveal a gradual shift towards Setswana and a preference for trilingual Ikalanga-Setswana-English acquisition and use.