COVID was a setback for indigenous languages: South African lecturers on what went wrong [The Conversation, August 2022]

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

https://theconversation.com/covid-was-a-setback-for-indigenous-languages-south-african-lecturers-on-what-went-wrong-188383

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.

https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2022.2074012

 

Educause Review, 27 March 2020 - The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning

Title:
The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning

Authors:
Charles Hodges, Stephanie Moore, Barb Lockee, Torrey Trust & Aaron Bond

Published:
Educause Review, 27 March 2020

From the article:
Well-planned online learning experiences are meaningfully different from courses offered online in response to a crisis or disaster. Colleges and universities working to maintain instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic should understand those differences when evaluating this emergency remote teaching.

To read this article:
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2020/3/the-difference-between-emergency-remote-teaching-and-online-learning