Some sociolinguistic aspects of second language teaching and learning of Xhosa

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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

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Mother-tongue, Xhosa, Comparative linguistics, Second language teaching

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