Necessary Versus Sufficient Conditions for Using New Languages in South African Higher Education: A Linguistic AppraisalFootnote1

1. A version of this paper was given as a keynote lecture at the Conference for Languages and Education in Africa at the University of Oslo in June 2006.

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