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LIN1502 EXAM PACK 2023
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- University Of South Africa (Unisa)
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LIN1502EXAM PACK
2023
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SECTION B: Written questions
Question 1
a)
As a South African rural born child from Limpopo, only knowing Tshivenda and a bit
of English, where I attended a government public school, moving to the city was very
difficult because of the language barriers. I only know my mother tongue language is
a bit city. I remember I wanted to use a public transport to go to the University at
Bree Johannesburg. I could not speak Zulu or any other language beside my tongue
language. I can still recall the pressure I felt that day, the embarrassment of a black
child being called a foreigner is my own home land just because I was not bilingual.
This taught me a lesson that I needed to adapt quickly as the minority of Zulu culture
was the preferred language. I was stubborn at first, but I realise that for me to get
assistance, I needed to know other languages and cultures too. South African has 11
official languages and if one only knows their mother tongue languages you are
considered as a foreigner and its difficult to get assistance if you are not multilingual.
Another example was when I applied for a call centre job, during the interview, I was
asked besides my home language and English, if I can speak and write other
language. Unfortunate, I could not and was told the job is not mine because I am not
bilingual, and I should start learning Zulu. I lost a job before I can even start due to
the minority in Johannesburg speaking Zulu and other languages.
b) Definitely Not, it is not easy for babies to learn languages from watching
television. I have noticed with my two kids. My first-born daughter loves TV,
and her learning to speak has taken a lot of time, actually the TV is very
addictive to her and she is already turning 6.
She is still struggling to make a proper sentence but is able to memorise a
song or story on TV which has made her to be lazier. The little one hate TV
and she is not even 2 but her speech is proper and easy to hear what she is
saying.
I think TV corrupts the mind and makes the child lazy to think out of the box,
they more focus on the colours and repetitions of cartoon which some of the
are not even educational.
Also, the reasons they cannot also learn from TV is that babies are on a
different level of cognitive processing and requires language which is different
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from one another and require more words that are easy for them to
remember.
Babies also go from cooing and gurgling sounds to saying word that they can
recognise within a year, filling their standard development language
sequence that’s been observed across many cultures.
Question 2
a) Language shift
b) Thandi is moving to another country where English is spoken by some,
but German language is the most predominant. In order for her to be
able to adjust to the life style and culture, she needs to learn the
language. She is still young, so it will be easy for Thandi to learn the
language unlike the adult.
She is a bit more independent n her cognitive abilities and have the
benefit of a foundation that she can then use to learn from other. She
will also be able to learn the language a bit faster since the school will
be using that specific language.
c) Thandi should buy more German beginners’ books for her age or even
lower so that she can learn the basic.
- Extra private tutor can also assist her since the tutor is more familiar
with the books to be used and how Thandi can learn the language
faster.
Question 3
a) The one-word stage (12-18 months, Tommy is using one single words as a
response and they are used by the child to form one-word sentences known as
holophrases.
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UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS
October/November 2020
LIN1502
Multilingualism: the role of languages in South Africa
(714809)
80 Marks
Duration: 2 Hours
First Examiner: Ms HA van Zweel
Second Examiner: Ms M Meier
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