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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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