[lg policy] Zimbabwe

[Harold Schiffman]

Stakeholders call for language policy
Mar 11, 2019

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*BY NUNURAI JENA*

PARTICIPANTS at the International Mother Language Day workshop in Harare
last week called on government to formulate language policy to solve some
of the language problems bedevilling the education sector.

Eventhough Ndlovu of the department of African languages and literature at
the University of Zimbabwe said there were gaps in the Constitution in
terms of the use of language to enjoy the right to education.

“The major problem that we have in Zimbabwe is that we don’t have an
explicit written down language policy. There is need to have a policy
framework to operationalise section 6 of our Constitution that is dedicated
to languages,” he said.

Ndlovu pointed out sections 19 and 22 of the Constitution, which deal with
rights of children and persons with disabilities, as being silent on the
language to be used in order to access appropriate education.
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“The right to access appropriate education is null and void if it is not
done in the language that the learner understands better or in the mother’s
language. There is no education without a language,” Ndlovu said.

Educational psychologist Fred Zindi said Zimbabwe should have a language
policy that promotes indigenous languages just like other countries. Zindi
said in other countries such as China, foreign students have to learn
Mandarin for them to be enrolled at their universities.

UZ acting vice-chancellor Paul Mapfumo said the introduction of a language
policy was long overdue.

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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