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Multilingualism in Southern Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2009

Bonny Norton Peirce  and
Stanley G.M. Ridge
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In his keynote address to the 1994 conference of the Southern African Association of Applied Linguistics, Adegbija (1994a) identified three problems faced by applied linguists in the African multilingual context. First, apart from the vibrant work in South Africa, there is very little focus on applied linguistic research in Africa, and what there is tends to focus on the ex-colonial languages rather than the indigenous languages. Second, applied linguists in African countries other than South Africa tend to have very limited research facilities. In some cases, teachers struggle to acquire the most basic resources such as typewriters and stationery. Third, political, social, and economic instability in many parts of Africa seriously undermines the work of applied linguists: A program of work begun in one political era can be summarily cut off in another.

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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 17 , March 1997 , pp. 170 - 190
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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