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		<title>News: South African students getting tutored by text &#8211; Volunteer tutors wanted!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a nationwide teacher strike left students unprepared for final exams the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa has lined up volunteers to offer tutoring support via a popular mobile phone messaging platform.

Final exams in the country are less than a month away and student will require a passing grade to graduate. In the face of time constraints and personnel deficits students are being directed to download study materials and access tutors via MXit.

MXit is messaging services similar in many ways to AIM or Skype. Mobile internet use has exploded in South Africa recently, and the popularity of MXit makes it an ideal way for the young people to actively prepare and collaborate with tutors in absence of teachers.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lingoproz.co.za&amp;blog=6875052&amp;post=482&amp;subd=lingoproz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News: Language still bitter issue in South African schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 16-year-old who believes she was kicked out of class for speaking her first language at school has prompted government investigations, and the case is demonstrating how volatile the issue of language in education remains in South Africa.

School officials insist a disciplinary problem and not racism sparked the case, but it's now making headlines a generation after hundreds here were killed when students revolted over being forced to learn in Afrikaans, the language of their white oppressors under apartheid. ...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lingoproz.co.za&amp;blog=6875052&amp;post=479&amp;subd=lingoproz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News: Yoza m-Novel Library launched</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Shuttleworth Foundation, as part of its m4Lit (mobiles for literacy) project, launched a new library of cellphone stories - also known as mobile novels or m-novels in South Africa. Over the next six months the plan for Yoza is to build a library of cellphone stories of multiple genres that are available to teens not only in South Africa, but throughout Africa. ...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lingoproz.co.za&amp;blog=6875052&amp;post=471&amp;subd=lingoproz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chichewa / Chinyanja &#8211; English dictionary released</title>
		<link>http://blog.lingoproz.co.za/2010/03/22/chichewa-chinyanja-dictionary-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[English is widely spoken in Malawi owing to the country’s British colonial past, and it is the language of official communication. But Chichewa is spoken by all ethnic groups in the country. Government declared Chichewa (also known as Chinyanja) a national language in 1968.

According to Dr Steven Paas, a Dutch researcher who compiled and edited the dictionary, Chichewa is an important daily communication tool for more than 15 million people in Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

The new CE-EC dictionary traces its origin to 1997 when it began as a small personal note of vocabulary to assist Paas, an expatriate Theology lecturer, in learning the country’s most used language, Chichewa. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lingoproz.co.za&amp;blog=6875052&amp;post=463&amp;subd=lingoproz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Street Child World Cup &#8211; Interpreters wanted!</title>
		<link>http://blog.lingoproz.co.za/2009/08/13/street-child-world-cup-interpreters-wanted/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lingoproz.co.za/2009/08/13/street-child-world-cup-interpreters-wanted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Message to all Lingoproz members from the organisers: The first ever Street Child World Cup will take place in Durban in March 2010. This powerful and transformative project seeks to ensure that 2010 is remembered for the long term change it has made possible. Would you like to be part of the team? Street children [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lingoproz.co.za&amp;blog=6875052&amp;post=460&amp;subd=lingoproz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book: Global Linguistics: An Introduction by Marcel Danesi</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 07:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do people from different cultural backgrounds often misunderstand each other even when they use a common language to interact? Why do arguments that we find reasonable not seem so to members of other cultural groups? Global Linguistics: An Introduction addresses these and other basic questions about language and discourse in intercultural communication, providing a solid and accessible introduction to ""global linguistics"": an interdisciplinary field combining insights from contact linguistics, pragmatics, conceptual metaphor theory and argumentation theory. ...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lingoproz.co.za&amp;blog=6875052&amp;post=437&amp;subd=lingoproz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Afrikaans is way cooler than this</title>
		<link>http://blog.lingoproz.co.za/2009/05/21/afrikaans-is-way-cooler-than-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 07:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the Afrikaans advertising award Pendoring has embarked on a campaign to promote, well, itself but also Afrikaans creativity in general. Afrikaans is still big business, even if safari suits are out of fashion ...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lingoproz.co.za&amp;blog=6875052&amp;post=435&amp;subd=lingoproz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News: Africa: AU Agency Works on Sign Language</title>
		<link>http://blog.lingoproz.co.za/2009/05/20/news-africa-au-agency-works-on-sign-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 04:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A HARARE-BASED African Union agency has said work is in progress to develop a uniform sign language for Sub-Saharan Africa.
This was revealed by the executive director of the African Rehabilitation Institute, Mr Papa Malick Fal, in Harare recently. He said his organisation had a direct responsibility for the rights of the disabled in the AU and was working with the National AssociationS of People with Disabilities to develop a uniform language for Africa. ...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lingoproz.co.za&amp;blog=6875052&amp;post=432&amp;subd=lingoproz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News: Tracking Down the Remaining Speakers</title>
		<link>http://blog.lingoproz.co.za/2009/05/20/news-tracking-down-the-remaining-speakers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 03:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most linguists put the number of languages spoken in Africa at about two thousand. Some researchers consider about 300 of those endangered because they are spoken by fewer than 10-thousand people. A few are on the verge of extinction, and researchers are rushing to document them.

VOA's Bart Childs recently accompanied a small group of researchers who went to Sierra Leone to document two languages on the verge of disappearing: Kim and Bom. ...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lingoproz.co.za&amp;blog=6875052&amp;post=429&amp;subd=lingoproz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News: CBAAC blames foreign language adoption for Africa’s under-development</title>
		<link>http://blog.lingoproz.co.za/2009/05/08/news-cbaac-blames-foreign-language-adoption-for-africa%e2%80%99s-under-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 09:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Director/Chief  Executive of the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation (CBAAC), Professor Babatunde Babawale, yesterday in Abuja, blamed Africa's under-development on the adoption of foreign languages for socio-economic transactions. ...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lingoproz.co.za&amp;blog=6875052&amp;post=427&amp;subd=lingoproz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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