Hoe Afrikaans is Afrikaans-Nederlands?*

The present position of the leaching of Afrikaans linguistics within a Depart­ment of Afrikaans-Nederlands is discussed. Three major problems in the tuition of Afrikaans at the university are identified: (a) an over-emphasis on theoretical linguistics leads to a course in general linguistics rather than a course of Afrikaans;(b) the time and effort devoted to the teaching of Dutch as a major part of the course denies the independence of Afrikaans as a scientific dis­cipline, and(c) the almost total failure to teach Afrikaans as it should be used and is used in everyday speech and writing resul... Mehr ...