HED4806 ASSIGNMENT 3 2025

HED4806 ASSIGNMENT 3 2025 QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS SECTION A Section A is an extract from chapter 14 of the prescribed textbook (Seroto, Davids & Wolhuter, 2020). Read the extract and then answer the questions that follow. Mother tongue as a medium for teaching and learning in multicultural/multilingual societies. Decolonising previously marginalised indigenous languages is, no doubt, one of the most important tasks facing South Africa today. A people’s dignity and self-esteem are restored, and identity and respect maintained, if they speak and use their mother tongue. A people’s language is a heritage bestowed upon them by their ancestors. However, the later generations of our people dumped their languages and embraced the foreign tongue (Sotashe 2017). Wa Thiong’o (1986:4) placed specific emphasis on the use of the relevant local language to decolonise the mind of the African people. In his discussion of the language of African literature, Wa Thiong’o (1986:4) posits that language be put at the centre of people’s definition of themselves, in relation to their natural and social environment and to the world at large. He, further, argues that