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| Honours |
Year module |
NQF level: 8 |
Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English |
Module presented online |
| Purpose: The purpose of this module is to equip students with an informed and critical understanding of the key issues in language planning-in-education including the issue of choice of medium of instruction in multilingual classrooms, models of bilingual education for linguistic minorities and the educational implications of practices such as classroom code-switching and translanguaging. It also provides students with an understanding of educational language policies and language planning processes to be able to create a language strategy for their respective work environments and engage themselves in the
production of a bilingual or multilingual citizenry. These aims will enable students to demonstrate their understanding with their performance so that they learn to adapt to a changing world. The module will also enable students to promote and implement a culture of language tolerance in a plurilingual or multilingual context.
This module would also be useful for language teachers, other language professionals and all who use language because they need to be aware of language policy issues in a multilingual society. |