Publications

Publication details [#58098]

Webb, Vic and Tsaona Mokgwathi. 2013. The educational effects of code-switching in the classroom – benefits and setbacks: A case of selected senior secondary schools in Botswana. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 44 (3) : 108–125.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | code-switching | foreign language acquisition | language of instruction | language policy

Language as a subject

English | Setswana

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Though English is the sole official learning and teaching language in Botswana schools since 1994, inevitable classroom code-switching to the national Setswana language has both advantages and disadvantages as to English language acquisition.