{"id":5025,"date":"2025-06-19T22:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T22:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/indigenous-language-policy-in-academic-writing-at-south-african-higher-education-the-issue-of-publishing-and-accessing-scientific-materials-in-setswana\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T03:19:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T03:19:56","slug":"indigenous-language-policy-in-academic-writing-at-south-african-higher-education-the-issue-of-publishing-and-accessing-scientific-materials-in-setswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/indigenous-language-policy-in-academic-writing-at-south-african-higher-education-the-issue-of-publishing-and-accessing-scientific-materials-in-setswana\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Language Policy in Academic Writing at South African Higher Education: The Issue of Publishing and Accessing Scientific Materials in Setswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>Indigenous Language Policy in Academic Writing at South African Higher Education: The Issue of Publishing and Accessing Scientific Materials in Setswana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/journals.dut.ac.za\/index.php\/ajims\/article\/view\/1339' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/journals.dut.ac.za\/index.php\/ajims\/article\/view\/1339\/981' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>The Language Policy of South African Higher Education was adopted in November 2002 to ensure that all official languages are equitably used and developed as scientific languages in higher education. The main issue is to address publication and access of scientific materials in the medium of indigenous languages. South African government has not made much progress in exploring and exploiting the full use of scientific materials of indigenous languages in higher education.\u00a0 Although a vast majority of articles are published in English, researchers in the field of indigenous languages are expected to provide research in high language proficiency which imposes a challenge for most of them. This paper, therefore, focuses on the post-positivism method as a tool utilized for observation and measurement of the reality that exists when planning and implementing measures for academic writing in the medium of indigenous languages. The systematic theory herein will portray how the strategies of language policy implementation plan will increase publication and access of scientific indigenous materials. This paper uses qualitative research to improve the system utilized in the implementation of the indigenous language policy plan. The data collected herein has been derived from existing materials such as books, journals and online articles.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Kgomotso Theledi (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Masote (University of South Africa, South Africa)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>publishing, indigenous language, scientific materials, post-positivism, systematic theory<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: Indigenous Language Policy in Academic Writing at South African Higher Education: The Issue of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[2153,1535,1537,1534,1536,1538],"class_list":["post-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ajims","tag-indigenous-language","tag-post-positivism","tag-publishing","tag-scientific-materials","tag-systematic-theory","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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