New bilingual isiXhosa school dictionary includes 433 key curriculum words

by Oxford University Press | Sep 26, 2014 | Dictionaries, Schools News, Dictionary News

Most children in South Africa learn their school subjects in a language that is not their home language. This puts a barrier between the child and the subject he’s studying, and also makes the teacher’s job harder, as she tries to help children understand...

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