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<h1 class="">Dual-medium teaching not yet fully possible - Stellenbosch University</h1>
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<p class="">Thomas Hartleb, News24</p>
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<p>Johannesburg – It was
practically not possible for Stellenbosch University to offer parallel
English and Afrikaans teaching in all lectures from January next year.</p><p>The
constraints of lecturer availability, classrooms, and timetables, meant
that only the most popular modules would be considered for conversion
to parallel-medium teaching in 2016, Professor Arnold Schoonwinkel,
vice-rector: learning and teaching, said in a statement on Monday.</p><p>He
was commenting following the release of the report by the university’s
language policy task team to the Students’ Representative Council (SRC)
and Open Stellenbosch (OS). The team’s role had been to make
recommendations on the university’s language policy and the
implementation of its language plan.</p><p>The SRC and OS had largely focused their demands on parallel-medium teaching.<br></p><p>Before 2020, the multilingual offering had to be increased.<br></p><p>"It
should be made explicit that Afrikaans may not be used or experienced
as a mechanism to exclude anyone from this university," was one factor
the task team had to consider, Schoonwinkel said.<br></p><p>The team
recommended that iXhosa should continue to be developed as an academic
language. This was in response to the claims that the university's
investment in this language was merely a front for multilingualism.<br></p><p>Students had to stop thinking of lectures as a place where knowledge was transferred, but rather as a means to help them learn. </p><p>According
to this new model, it was possible to offer "learning facilitation" in
each student’s language of choice, without teaching them every concept
in either Afrikaans or English.<br></p><p>This was meant to address students’ fears that they would lose out if not all lectures were in their preferred language.</p><p>A
total of 74% of students who used the interpreting service agreed that
it helped their understanding of the work, according to a survey. The
team recommended an investigation into improving this service.</p><p><a href="http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Dual-medium-teaching-not-yet-fully-possible-Stellenbosch-University-20150921">http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Dual-medium-teaching-not-yet-fully-possible-Stellenbosch-University-20150921</a><br></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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