South African teachers switch languages in class: why policy should follow
The Conversation, 8th September 2019 If you step into a classroom in South Africa’s Limpopo province during a lesson, you’re very likely to hear the teacher speaking more than one language. She might begin a sentence in English, and then switch to Sepedi – the African language most commonly spoken as a mother tongue in the province. This is a practice known as code switching or code...