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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Hi Annette,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>I do remember reading something about South Africa wanting to start using African languages for instruction in tertiary education institutions. How far have they gone in that direction? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>I’m at the University of Botswana currently, teaching language education to secondary school teachers, but I come from Malawi. There we are going in the opposite direction. The Malawi Government wants English as the language of instruction starting from first grade. Currently it’s the same as in most countries, local language till fourth grade and then English from fifth onwards.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>The resistance to local languages from most Malawians and Africans suggests to me that people do not make much of the studies that say mother tongue facilitates learning, nor that local languages can be vehicles for national development. None of that matters; the people want English. And the Malawi government is obliging. Other countries are in a dilemma I think. The language educators and researchers believe in the research on the significance of promoting local languages, but everybody else is fixated on the prestige of English, and understandably so, if I may add. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>If you have more info on what is happening in South Africa, I’ll be grateful to learn.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> lgpolicy-list-bounces@groups.sas.upenn.edu [mailto:lgpolicy-list-bounces@groups.sas.upenn.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Annette Islei<br><b>Sent:</b> 25 February 2015 19:21<br><b>To:</b> Language Policy List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [lg policy] African countries using African languages in education?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hello Steve - that is very likely! Except that SA is beginning in tertiary - do they have African LoIs in secondary?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But another interesting case might be with French in Burkino-Faso or Mali. It won't strictly be secondary, but they may be calling it basic education up to 14 years of age. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The significant thing with TZ is that it looks like they are dissolving the Primary Secondary division. If such a radical change of curriculum happens the new language policy could work. Of course, TZ has the advantage that Kiswahili is so far institutionalized that people can hardly use English - in other words, it is the de facto primary language of communication. You can't get by in TZ without Kiswahili, and TZ researchers who came to Uganda needed translation into Kiswahili. So Nyerere really did create something new there.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>In Uganda they are trying for universal and free secondary education, and to modify the curriculum so it is a more natural extension to the changes in the Primary curriculum. Myself, I think always starting 'bottom up' from Primary has serious flaws, as the teacher educators don't know what is going on and don't have the training themselves in local languages, there is not the language development, changes in initial teacher education lag behind the school curriculum change (took 6 years in Uganda!) and so the teachers are left to sink or swim - or flounder at best. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>So to me the political will behind beginning with tertiary in SA is also pretty much unique - with its obvious recent historical background. And something to be followed with interest by researchers. However, as far as I know, the issues and difficulties of using non-European based languages in schools are actually similar to other African countries.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>What has happened there is some research into how well students (at KwaZulu-Natal Uni) can study through their own first language, and this has led also into interesting research into how to teach reading in a Bantu language, and whether, due to the agglutinative structure, reading is actually slightly different from in English. Which is how I linked in from Uganda, because they don't have good methods there - and it became pretty obvious that this was because of ignorance at the top of the education ladder. So you see where I coming from!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Uganda tries to bring Kiswahili in the curriculum, and there are either no students or no teachers<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>One of the people in our SIG is Rosemary Wildsmith-Cromarty, and she knows a lot about what is happening at tertiary - although she has moved on to another post now.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I guess you are in Botswana - what is your post and personal interest?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Annette<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Secretary of Language in Africa SIG, British Association for Applied <br>Linguistics (BAAL)<br><br>Founding Member / Advisor, Centre for Action and Applied Research for <br>Development (CAARD) (U) Ltd., Fort-Portal, Kabarole District, Uganda. <br><a href="http://www.caard.co.ug">www.caard.co.ug</a><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 25 February 2015 at 13:47, Steve L. Sharra <<a href="mailto:Steve.Sharra@mopipi.ub.bw" target="_blank">Steve.Sharra@mopipi.ub.bw</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>These are very helpful responses, Annette. Thank you for reaching out to your network.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>It looks like once the policy is operational, Tanzania may be the only African country using an African language up to tertiary education levels. Unless there’s a country we haven’t heard about yet.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Thanks again,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Steve</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>---</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Steve Sharra, Ph.D.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>University of Botswana</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Department of Languages and Social Sciences Education</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Faculty of Education</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Office: Building 242A Rm048</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Tel: <a href="tel:%2B267-355-5409" target="_blank">+267-355-5409</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Email: <a href="mailto:steve.sharra@mopipi.ub.bw" target="_blank">steve.sharra@mopipi.ub.bw</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Personal blog: <a href="http://mlauzi.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://mlauzi.blogspot.com</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>TEDxLilongwe talk:</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-otnO33fMhQ" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC;background:white'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-otnO33fMhQ</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:lgpolicy-list-bounces@groups.sas.upenn.edu" target="_blank">lgpolicy-list-bounces@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:lgpolicy-list-bounces@groups.sas.upenn.edu" target="_blank">lgpolicy-list-bounces@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Annette Islei<br><b>Sent:</b> 25 February 2015 15:12<br><b>To:</b> Language Policy List</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [lg policy] African countries using African languages in education?<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>A further response from Uganda - see hidden text below<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Annette<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Secretary of Language in Africa SIG, British Association for Applied <br>Linguistics (BAAL)<br><br>Founding Member / Advisor, Centre for Action and Applied Research for <br>Development (CAARD) (U) Ltd., Fort-Portal, Kabarole District, Uganda. <br><a href="http://www.caard.co.ug" target="_blank">www.caard.co.ug</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On 24 February 2015 at 08:16, Hirome Tembe <<a href="mailto:tembehirome02@gmail.com" target="_blank">tembehirome02@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Dr. Banda, you are right. The elite have for a long time misled the masses and perpetuated the interest of the custodians of the ex-colonial languages. Even the native speakers of these languages know what is best for their children, and we help them to maintain it.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'>In Uganda, we follow a multilingual language policy. We promote both the local languages, which should be used in teaching from Primary 1 - 4, while the ex-colonial language is also taught as a subject. The main concern, is that it is not enough to just use the local language only up to that level. There is no motivation for the learners to wish to learn more in it. The policy as it is, is not really committed to seeing the development of the languages, except for a few with ardent advocates who have pushed the learning in these languages beyond what the policy states.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Yes, it is a good policy that TZ is pursuing, and they need our support.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Juliet<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:13 AM, DENNIS BANDA <<a href="mailto:dennisnk@hotmail.com" target="_blank">dennisnk@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'> Zambia is now using 7 regional African languages as the languages of Instruction from grades 1-4. The only challenge we have is that the 7 are based on the zoning done at independence in 1965. There is a feeling that more languages must be used other than the 7. There is also a growing desire among many people that the selection criterion in colleges and universities should no longer be 5 'o ' levels with English but 5 'o' levels with a language and language could be English or any of the 7 Zambian languages. This is what is obtaining in Zimbabwe and South Africa. The elite do not seem to favour this but who cares about them anyway?<br> <br>Dr. Dennis Banda<br>School of Education<br> The University of Zambia<br>Department of language and Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 21:54:05 +0000<br>Subject: Re: [lg policy] African countries using African languages in education?<br>From: <a href="mailto:annetteislei@gmail.com" target="_blank">annetteislei@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:adegboyeadeyanju@yahoo.com" target="_blank">adegboyeadeyanju@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:joyceanku@yahoo.com" target="_blank">joyceanku@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:margaretansre@gmail.com" target="_blank">margaretansre@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:margabaleeta@yahoo.com" target="_blank">margabaleeta@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:ngwebin@yahoo.com" target="_blank">ngwebin@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:bayomoto@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">bayomoto@yahoo.co.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:dennisnk@hotmail.com" target="_blank">dennisnk@hotmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:isibebwa@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">isibebwa@yahoo.co.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:jamesboat76@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jamesboat76@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:chailemariam@yahoo.com" target="_blank">chailemariam@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:myrna242000@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">myrna242000@yahoo.co.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:evelema@yahoo.com" target="_blank">evelema@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:agnesgath@gmail.com" target="_blank">agnesgath@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:kintujohn65@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">kintujohn65@yahoo.co.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:rashioh_koroma@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">rashioh_koroma@yahoo.co.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:a.kwapong@gold.ac.uk" target="_blank">a.kwapong@gold.ac.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:nanamosi@hotmail.com" target="_blank">nanamosi@hotmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:constanceforbiz@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">constanceforbiz@yahoo.co.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:mpakaalice@gmail.com" target="_blank">mpakaalice@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:gsitali@unam.na" target="_blank">gsitali@unam.na</a>; <a href="mailto:flomutez@yahoo.fr" target="_blank">flomutez@yahoo.fr</a>; <a href="mailto:manuelmuranga@gmail.com" target="_blank">manuelmuranga@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:r.i.musa@yahoo.com" target="_blank">r.i.musa@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:becky77aweng@yahoo.com" target="_blank">becky77aweng@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:judna2001@yahoo.com" target="_blank">judna2001@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:ngenevoix@yahoo.com" target="_blank">ngenevoix@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:n_njobvu@yahoo.com" target="_blank">n_njobvu@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:evantaki@gmail.com" target="_blank">evantaki@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:d.nuwagaba@yahoo.com" target="_blank">d.nuwagaba@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:stephenopira@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">stephenopira@yahoo.co.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:leila_schroeder@sil.org" target="_blank">leila_schroeder@sil.org</a>; <a href="mailto:ctante2@yahoo.com" target="_blank">ctante2@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:Tembehirome02@gmail.com" target="_blank">Tembehirome02@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:temedan@gmail.com" target="_blank">temedan@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:Ootom-lawyer@uclan.ac.uk" target="_blank">Ootom-lawyer@uclan.ac.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:Orlawyer2004@yahoo.com" target="_blank">Orlawyer2004@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:felicianosal@yahoo.com.au" target="_blank">felicianosal@yahoo.com.au</a>; <a href="mailto:tsaphinah@gmail.com" target="_blank">tsaphinah@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:rwabayeho@yahoo.fr" target="_blank">rwabayeho@yahoo.fr</a>; <a href="mailto:wildsmithr@ukzn.ac.za" target="_blank">wildsmithr@ukzn.ac.za</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Please see below a question concerning use of African (non ex-colonial) languages in schools as languages of instruction in any African countries. The cause of the question is the new TZ policy of Kiswahili through to the 5th year of secondary education<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Annette<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Secretary of Language in Africa SIG, British Association for Applied <br>Linguistics (BAAL)<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On 23 February 2015 at 16:18, Steve L. Sharra <<a href="mailto:Steve.Sharra@mopipi.ub.bw" target="_blank">Steve.Sharra@mopipi.ub.bw</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hello all,</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Wi</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>th the new language in education policy, will Tanzania be the only country in Africa using an African language as a language of instruction<span style='color:#44546A'>? </span>Would anybody know if there are other African countries <span style='color:#44546A'>that already use African languages for instruction in schools at any level</span>?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#888888'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#888888'>Steve<br clear=all></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>This message came to you by way of the lgpolicy-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu" target="_blank">lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a><br>To manage your subscription unsubscribe, or arrange digest format: <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/lgpolicy-list" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/lgpolicy-list</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#888888'>-- </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#888888'>Juliet Tembe (PhD)<br><a href="tel:%2B256-772-457946" target="_blank">+256-772-457946</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>This message came to you by way of the lgpolicy-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu">lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a><br>To manage your subscription unsubscribe, or arrange digest format: <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/lgpolicy-list" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/lgpolicy-list</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>