The Power of Language Policy in a Multilingual South Africa | Adiel Rutabana | TEDxYouth@WBAIS
Adiel sheds light on the language policies of multiple African nations and shows us what is most effective. By focusing on South Africa, he shows us what language policies must accomplish and how governments should proceed to enforce them. Adiel is a graduating senior in WBAIS who has completed the AP Research course. His research, centered on South African language policy and its implementation, explores the complex relationship between language and government in a multilingual Africa. Through a series of interviews, Adiel discovered weak spots in the language policy and what needs South Africans have in regards to it. His findings also show the need for more political will from the government to implement constitutional provisions on language in order to achieve the goals of an ambitious language policy. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
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Our language policy is comical. I remember going to speak at my former school where they recently added isiXhosa in the curriculum and the Xhosa kids were taught by a white lady who knows less isiXhosa than the some of her learners. Being 'qualified' to teach a language and knowing it in its essence and understanding all the nuances of it together with the culture of the people who speak the language are two very different things. I love seeing white people speak my language but I don't like how a dumbed-down version of it can be taught to kids with the intention of improving their grasp of their mother tongue.
He pronounced Xhosa wrong though. The way he pronounced it, it would be Qosa (different click sound).
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The problem in South Africa is a lack of unity, the solution would be to keep promoting English in Education so that south africans can esily communicate with each other and the rest of the world.
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I think a better alternative would be to promote the development and learning of languages besides English, promoting them as cross-cultural means of communication, without disregarding English as a lingua franca. We need to keep our culture and diversity through our languages, not completely disregard them for a colonial language like English.