Some sociolinguistic aspects of second language teaching and learning of Xhosa
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Date
1987
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
During the period between March 1974 and June 1981, I was
involved in the teaching of Xhosa to non-mother-tongue
speakers at Rhodes University. This experience brought me
face to face with problems for which my training as a
teacher of Xhosa had not prepared me as my training had been
in the firs t-language teaching and learning of Xhosa. It
also sensitized me to some of the problems and
contradictions that characterize the teaching o f Xhosa to
White learners. The sensitization itself came in the form
of a frustration which was two-dimensional.
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Masters of Art
Keywords
Mother-tongue, Xhosa, Comparative linguistics, Second language teaching