{"id":102,"date":"2010-06-05T11:19:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/?p=102"},"modified":"2010-06-11T08:33:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T06:33:31","slug":"english-in-south-africa-a-double-edged-sword-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/english-in-south-africa-a-double-edged-sword-1\/","title":{"rendered":"ENGLISH IN SOUTH AFRICA &#8211; A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/english-in-south-africa-a-double-edged-sword-1\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/english-in-south-africa-a-double-edged-sword-1\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><h1><strong>Education in English: an easy solution or the root of the problem in South Africa?<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><em>Dr Malcolm Venter, PhD English Linguistics<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/english-in-sa11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-312\" title=\"english in sa1[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/english-in-sa11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>This year I have had the pleasure, as a retired English teacher and high school principal, of lecturing to the PGCE students at Stellenbosch University who are training to become English teachers. I set them an assignment entitled, \u2018English in South Africa \u2013 a double-edged sword\u2019. I was impressed by many of the assignments \u2013 at the insight and the passion and concern they showed at the plight of the thousands of learners who have to conduct their studies through a language which is not their Home Language. Considering that many of the students are Afrikaans-speaking whites, it is encouraging to know that our young people have a broader vision of education in this country than just their own back yards.<\/p>\n<p>I have edited the assignments to a certain degree \u2013 clear errors have been removed; but I have tried to leave the flavour of young people, some of them not English-speaking.<\/p>\n<p>Because the assignment was based on class discussions and mostly common sources, there are obvious similarities between the different assignments; but there are sufficient differences to warrant publishing five essays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I have had the pleasure, as a retired English teacher and high school principal, of lecturing to the PGCE students at Stellenbosch University who are training to become English teachers. I set them an assignment entitled, \u2018English in South Africa \u2013 a double-edged sword\u2019. I was impressed by many of the assignments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}