South Africa has adopted a multilingual language policy, which valorizes multilingualism as
a norm in its new sociopolitical dispensation that began in 1994. However, conceptions of …

Language policies in South African education have historically been inextricably woven
within the fabric of larger sociopolitical realities and have supported the interests of those in …

The advent of the 11 official language policy in South Africa presented institutions of higher
learning with opportunities to become multilingual universities in line with trends elsewhere …

The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long
shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for grappling with …

Nelson Mandela University (NMU), previously known as the University of Port Elizabeth
(UPE) and subsequently renamed the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) …

本研究以2003-2012 年SSCI 期刊发表的语言经济学论文为语料, 采用文献定量分析方法,
考察国外语言经济学研究的现状. 研究发现, 国外语言经济学的研究热点包括语言作为人力资本 …

As in many other parts of the world,'academic literacy'has emerged as both a concern and a
contested concept in South African universities. In this article we focus specifically on …

The aim of this paper is to establish whether code-switching is still common practice in rural
Limpopo as it was 16 years ago (McCabe, 1996) and if so, to suggest ways to use it as a …

This article seeks to reinforce the urgency for a multilingual academy in South Africa. It
draws on recent quantitative data to unpack the dramatic decline of language enrolments …

After a brief overview of the historical bilingual and parallel-medium language policies of
universities in South Africa, this article highlights the limited implementation of the Language …