SOCIOLOLINGUISTIC SURVEYS - Centre for Language Studies
SOCIOLOLINGUISTIC SURVEYS - Centre for Language Studies
SOCIOLOLINGUISTIC SURVEYS - Centre for Language Studies
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A Note from the Director on Sociolinguistic Surveys on Chiyao, Chitumbuka,<br />
Chilomwe and Chisena<br />
It has been established on the basis of empirical evidence from research that Children<br />
learn better in their mother tongue and that mother tongue education, at least in the<br />
<strong>for</strong>mative years of the child’s education, is the most optimal alternative. However, the<br />
<strong>for</strong>mulation of a meaningful language policy with emphasis on mother tongue education<br />
in a multilingual country like Malawi crucially depends on the availability of accurate<br />
and realiable sociollinguistic data.<br />
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