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The Language Planning Situation in South Africa

Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu
Pages 361-445 | Published online: 26 Mar 2010

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Pfuurai Chimbunde & Maserole Kgari-Masondo. (2022) The Decolonisation of African Languages: Insights from Southern Africa. Language Matters 53:3, pages 5-24.
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Hloniphani Ndebele & Nogwaja S. Zulu. (2017) The management of isiZulu as a language of teaching and learning at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's College of Humanities. Language and Education 31:6, pages 509-525.
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Andrea Parmegiani. (2014) The (dis)ownership of English: language and identity construction among Zulu students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 17:6, pages 683-694.
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Emure Masoke-Kadenge & Maxwell Kadenge. (2013) ‘Declaration without implementation’: An investigation into the progress made and challenges faced in implementing the Wits language policy. Language Matters 44:3, pages 33-50.
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Themba Ngwenya. (2012) The North-West University language policy: A glimmer of hope and flashes of red lights. Language Matters 43:2, pages 221-239.
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Deborah A. Horan, Misty Sailors, Miriam Martinez, Allison Skerrett & Leketi Makalela. (2012) The golden lady: the storied life of a multilingual teacher and author of supplemental reading materials in a marginalized South African language. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 25:5, pages 681-704.
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Viv Edwards & Jacob Marriote Ngwaru. (2011) Multilingual education in South Africa: the role of publishers. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 32:5, pages 435-450.
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Kerry Taylor-Leech. (2011) Timor-Leste: sustaining and maintaining the national languages in education. Current Issues in Language Planning 12:2, pages 289-308.
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Dianna Moodley. (2010) Language accessibility and language preference gridlocked at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Language Matters 41:2, pages 214-237.
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Nikiwe Mathebula & Theodorus du Plessis. (2010) Language policy-making in the Free State: an analysis of language policy activities between 1994 and 2007. The Language Learning Journal 38:3, pages 307-326.
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Andrea Parmegiani. (2010) Reconceptualizing language ownership. A case study of language practices and attitudes among students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The Language Learning Journal 38:3, pages 359-378.
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Nicholus Nyika. (2009) Language complaints as an instrument of language rights activism: The case of PanSALB as a guardian of the right to mother-tongue education. Language Matters 40:2, pages 239-260.
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Reshma Sookrajh & Jenny Joshua. (2009) Language matters in rural schools in South Africa: are educators making the implementation of the Language in Education Policy (1997) work?. The Language Learning Journal 37:3, pages 323-338.
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Anne-Marie Beukes. (2009) Language policy incongruity and African languages in postapartheid South Africa. Language Matters 40:1, pages 35-55.
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Kerry Taylor-Leech. (2009) The language situation in Timor-Leste. Current Issues in Language Planning 10:1, pages 1-68.
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Gary Barkhuizen. (2006) Immigrant Parents’ Perceptions of Their Children’s Language Practices: Afrikaans Speakers Living in New Zealand. Language Awareness 15:2, pages 63-79.
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Fortunate M. Phaka, Maarten P.M. Vanhove, Louis H. du Preez & Jean Hugé. (2023) Library books as environmental management capacity building opportunities exclude most South African languages. Environmental Science & Policy 141, pages 61-68.
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Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu. (2019) English as a naturalized African language. World Englishes 38:1-2, pages 114-127.
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Gary BarkhuizenVivian de Klerk. (2016) Imagined identities: Preimmigrants' narratives on language and identity. International Journal of Bilingualism 10:3, pages 277-299.
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Gary Barkhuizen & Ute Knoch. (2006) Macro-Level policy and Micro-Level planning. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 29:1, pages 3.1-3.18.
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