Hello Dorothy,
This is an interesting question and I hope someone on the list is more
expert in
the situation in Uganda than I.
Trilingual approaches have been advocated in various contexts. One recent head
of UNESCO (don't have the name handy) once suggested it as a solution -
maternal language, and two languages of wider communication, one
perhaps in the
country the other international. I think the proposal has been made in
Cameroon
and certainly has had discussion elsewhere.
Bilingual education has a lot of research backing it up - bilingual where one
language is the maternal language (home language). Trilingual approaches have
not had the same level of research but logically would demand more in terms of
teaching and learning effort. The good news is that young children learn
languages fairly easily and if you structure language instruction and usage
well in schools I think you can have lasting results that are good for
them and
society.
Don Osborn
PS- Although your message arrived in my mailbox as if it passed through the
AfricanLanguages Yahoogroup, for some reason it's not on the group's page
(archives). Not sure if others received it or not.
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> I would like some information on the ideological implications of the
> language debates in Uganda i.e debate on national language and tri-
> lingual education.
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> Thanks for any information you can give on the above.
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