Abstract
M.A.
This study seeks to formulate a rationale to overcome the negative perceptions many South Africa ethnic language parents have adopted towards the use of their children's mother tongue as the language of learning and teaching. With a view to considering the role both home and school can play in supporting South Africa's new language-in-education policy, underpinned by additive bilingualism, this study investigates three factors of bilingual education, viz. (1) language planning and policy-making, (2)
research into bilingualism and bilingual education, and (3) language attitudes of parents of L2 learners in three distinctly-different Gauteng primary schools...