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Publication details [#51938]

Beukes, Anne-Marie. 2009. Language policy incongruity and African languages in postapartheid South Africa. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 40 (1) : 35–55.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | language of instruction | language planning | language policy | language use

Language as a subject

Languages, South African

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper explores the performance of the Pan South African Language Board, as the South African government's official language planning agency, charged with promoting indigenous African language use, and in particular its crucial role in handling attitudinal problems concerning the position of African languages in education.