[lg policy] Embracing language rights

[Harold Schiffman]

Embracing language rights
Opinion / 19 October 2016, 05:29am
Dr Dianna Moodley

*Dr Dianna Moodley reveals perceptions and preferences of African and
non-African language speakers concerning African language usage in Higher
Education*

Amid the current turmoil about student dissatisfaction with the Higher
Education system in South Africa, the question of language choice for
instruction continues to swelter. The need to construct a national
multilingual identity has never been more critical than at present, where
there appears to be increasing tensions about implementing multilingual
language policies.
Language usagemay beheading towards a cul-de-sac if institutions do not
address language attitudes and preferences of students and staff in a
meaningfully engaged way, says the writer. Credit: EPA

These tensions revolve around potential conflict between the resuscitation
of previously disadvantaged languages on one hand, and maintaining the
already established “high status” languages on the other. Further, there
are challenges from affirmative action for African languages.

Almost two decades into democracy, after being riddled by a system of
government, fittingly referred to as “virtual heresies”, South Africans
should be readily embracing language rights that were previously denied to
them.

http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/opinion/embracing-language-rights-2081294


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