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Mother Tongue Education: Lessons for Botswana

Author(s)

Lone E. Ketsitlile, Uju C. Ukwuoma

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DOI:10.17265/2161-623X/2015.11.003

Affiliation(s)

Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Palapye, Botswana

ABSTRACT

Mother tongue education is a cause for concern in many places of the world, including Botswana. This paper paints a picture of what is happening in Botswana with regard to mother tongue education and other places in the world and what Botswana can emulate, adopt, or adapt. This is important to enable Botswana to set the ball rolling in the right direction regarding the teaching of minority languages in schools and their inclusion in socio-economic and political spheres of life. The Botswana Government recognizes the existence of mother tongue languages and agrees that they should be taught in schools, yet mother tongue education has become a mere talk and only Setswana (national language) and English (official language) are taught in schools. We advocate and reiterate the urgent need for a comprehensive language reform in education policy in Botswana to cater for diversity and multiculturalism.

KEYWORDS

mother tongue education, language, identity, linguistic human rights, integration and assimilation

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