Addressing the Challenges of Language Choice in the Implementation of Mother-Tongue Based Bilingual Education in South Sudan

Autor/in	Spronk, Tanya
Titel	Addressing the Challenges of Language Choice in the Implementation of Mother-Tongue Based Bilingual Education in South Sudan
Quelle	In: Multilingual Education, 4 (2014), Artikel 16 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2191-5059
DOI	10.1186/s13616-014-0016-z
Schlagwörter	Peace; Conflict Resolution; Multilingualism; Language Usage; Language Planning; Educational Policy; Surveys; Foreign Countries; Native Language; Language of Instruction; African Languages; Educational Practices; Indigenous Populations; Bilingual Education; Sudan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frieden; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Sprachgebrauch; Sprachwechsel; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Ausland; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Bildungspraxis; Sinti und Roma; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht
Abstract	Since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (South Sudan) has been working towards the implementation of a Language and Education Policy in which the mother tongue of the learner is to be used as a medium of instruction for the first three years of primary education. However, with over 63 Southern Sudanese indigenous communities listed in the Interim Constitution, over 50 living languages listed in the Ethnologue and with no recent language survey or assessment done, there are many challenges in terms of language choices for education. The Department of National Languages within the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has addressed some of these challenges through the running of a series of workshops entitled, "Principles, Practice and Planning for Multilingual Education". This article presents a participatory planning process as well as some of the resulting principles of language choice for implementation of the language policy. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01