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• Discrepancy between Speech and Written Versions of Shona: The Case of the Karanga of Chivi District in Masvingo, Zimbabwe

  Beatrice Taringa

  1002-1016

  
  Article ID: 6709
  88  (Abstract) 53  (Download)
  

  Abstract:

  Schooling in Zimbabwe have a socially constructed hidden definition that impacts language learning. The ‘racialised bilingual tainted educationists’ measure learning through the influence of some recognised languages. Scholarship underestimate linguistic power dynamics in the ‘nativised foreign languages’. The phenomenon of ‘languaging education’ can be traced back to Christian missionaries in the 1890s and orthography harmonisation efforts. In... More

  2024-11-15