- Title
- Computers and African languages in education: an ICT tool for the promotion of multilingualism at a South African university: conversations
- Creator
- Dalvit, Lorenzo, Murray, Sarah, Mini, Buyiswa, Terzoli, Alfredo, Zhao, Xiaogeng
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428911
- Identifier
- vital:72545
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC87340
- Description
- This article describes a web-based application designed to provide meaningful access to the study of Computer Science to speakers of an African language who have limited experience of using English for ac-ademic purposes. Our research is focused upon students of Computer Skills in the Extended Studies Programme at Rhodes University who have studied English as a second language for the matriculation exam-ination. The intervention involves the cooperative production and shar-ing of multilingual support material in both English and the students' home languages. The article illustrates how the use of computers has the potential to solve some of the problems traditionally associated with the use of African languages as additional media of instruction in ter-tiary education (i.e. lack of terminology and resources in the African languages, stigma attached to their use, etc.). We maintain that learning about computers partly in their stronger language (i.e. their home lan-guage) could give students increased and more meaningful access to an educationally and economically empowering field of study.
- Format
- 9 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Perspectives in education, Dalvit, L., Murray, S., Mini, B., Terzoli, A. and Zhao, X., 2005. Computers and African languages in education: an ICT tool for the promotion of multilingualism at a South African university: conversations. Perspectives in education, 23(1), pp.123-131, Perspectives in education volume 23 number 1 123 131 2005 0258-2236
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- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the University of the Free State Statement (https://www.ufs.ac.za/media/general/publications)
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Terzoli, Alfredo (Prof)
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Murray, Sarah (Mrs)
RU Department of Computer Science
RU Department of Education
SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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