Title:
COVID was a setback for indigenous languages: South African lecturers on what went wrong
Author:
Sisanda Nkoala
Senior Lecturer, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
Published:
The Conversation, 29 August 2022
From the article:
South African indigenous languages are among those at risk of a serious decline due to the increasing use of digital technologies. By some estimates only 5% of the world’s languages are likely to survive online.
ALSO SEE
Nkoala, Sisanda. 2022. Educators’ Experiences of using multilingual pedagogies during emergency remote teaching: a case study of South African universities. International Journal of Multilingualism, 18 May 2022.