Tshivenda Second Additional Language

The Second Additional Language level assumes that learners do not necessarily have any knowledge of the language when they arrive at school. The focus upon exposure to Second Additional Language is on developing learners’ ability to understand and speak the language - basic interpersonal communication skills.

Learning a Second Additional Language should enable learners to:

• acquire the language skills necessary to communicate appropriately in the target language taking into account audience, purpose and context;
• listen, speak, read/view and write/present the language with confidence and enjoyment. These skills and attitudes form the basis for life-long learning;
• express and justify, orally and in writing, their own ideas, views and emotions confidently in order to become independent thinkers;
• use language and their imagination to find out more about themselves and the different cultures and the world around them. This will enable them to express their experiences and findings about the world orally and in writing;
• use language to access and manage information for learning in a wide range of other contexts. Information literacy is a vital skill in the ‘information age’ and forms the basis for lifelong learning; and
• use language as means for critical and creative thinking; for expressing their opinions on various topics; for interacting with a wide range of texts; for challenging the perspectives, values and power relations embedded in texts; and for reading texts for various purposes, such as enjoyment, research and critique.

Grade 1 - 12