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Hoe druk iemand hom- of haar uit wanneer die woorde wat hulle nodig het ontbreek?\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Ilse Eigelaar-Meets<\/a>, sosioloog verbonde aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch<\/a> (US), was vanjaar die gasspreker van die 22ste Johan Combrink-gedenklesing. Die gedenklesing is deur die Vriende van Afrikaans (VVA) aangebied, met die tema “Taal \u2009\u2013 die instrument wat menslike ontwikkeling kan maak of breek”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Eigelaar-Meets se navorsing het sy gekyk na taal onder jongmense. Sy beklemtoon dat taal gemeenskappe skep en tot ‘n gedeelde erfenis en kultuur lei, en word geskep deur diegene wat dit praat.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Taal is ook ‘n meganisme van ongelykheid. Mag, status, ekonomiese toegang word versterk en regverdig deur taal. Ons hoor dit wanneer daar gepraat word oor die oorlo\u00eb wat aan die gang is \u2013 hoe dit regverdig en gerasionaliseer word. Dink aan watter tale word geprioritiseer, watter tale het status en watter dialek gemarginaliseer word. Dit is ongelykhede, ingewerk in taal,” s\u00ea Eigelaar-Meets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dr.
Dr. Ilse Eigelaar-Meets luister na ‘n lid van die gehoor na afloop van haar voorlegging by vanjaar se se Johan Cobrink-gedenklesing. Foto: Ya\u00ebl Malgas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Die sosiale meganisme van taal word gebruik om te verdeel, maar ook bymekaar te bring.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In haar navorsing het sy gevind die woorde wat gebruik word, kan ‘n kind help maak of breek.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deur haar navorsing in die Wes- en Noord-Kaap het Eigelaar-Meets ‘n ho\u00ebrskool in Oudtshoorn besoek waar sy die krag wat woorde kan h\u00ea, besef het. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By hierdie skool vertel die skoolhoof dat leerders in gr.8 nie kan lees en skryf nie en hoe gr.8-onderwysers kinders die alfabet leer, in plaas van vakonderrig.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Hy s\u00ea maar dit is egter nie die skool se grootste probleem nie. Die grootste probleem is die ouers, want as kinders s\u00ea hulle wil ‘n onderwyser of ‘n dokter word, s\u00ea hul ouers vir hulle ‘Is jy dan simpel? Hier word ons net plaaswerkers’.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die woorde wat di\u00e9 jongmense hoor is ‘n manier om jongmense terug te hou van hul potensiaal.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onderwysers in die gehoor het van die gebrek aan taalvermo\u00eb getuig, met een plaaslike gr.11-onderwyser wat vertel van leerders in sy klas wat hy agterkom nie met begrip kan lees nie.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eigelaar-Meets vertel van kinders op plattelandse dorpe wat skool n\u00e1 gr.3 of gr.4 verlaat, omdat skool frustrend is omdat hulle nie kan lees of skryf nie.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ons beweeg terug in tyd en sal ongeletterde volwassens in ‘n tyd van skole sonder skoolgeld h\u00ea.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ten spyte van die gebrek aan taal en geletterdheid, vertel Eigelaar-Meets van die verskil wat programme soos die VVA<\/a> se naskoolse programme kan h\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Combrink-gedenklesing
Dr. Ilse Eigelaar-Meets (US) was die gaspsreker vir die geleentheid. Saam met haar is (van links) Chareldin van der Merwe (VVA), Gerrie Lemmer (ATKV), Shireen Crotz (VVA) en Mercia Eksteen (ATKV). Foto: Ya\u00ebl Malgas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hierdie programme gee veral jongmense woorde om mee te werk, bied ‘n geleentheid om die wye w\u00eareld te verken deur lees, en bou selfvertroue deur hul eie skryfwerk en digkuns.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Jy kan lees van buite jou onmiddellike omstandighede. Baie van hierdie kinders kom n\u00earens nie, hulle bly in die plekkie waar hulle is,” verduidelik sy.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sy het gevind in Ashton was die meeste leerders met wie hulle gesels het nooit uit die dorpie nie. Sommige van die leerders van 18-jaar bieg hulle was nog nie eers in Bonnieville of Worcester nie. “Al wat hulle kan oopmaak, is ‘n boek.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vir kinders wat wel lees en skryf, maak dit w\u00earelde oop want soos een seuntjie die navorsers vertel het: “Nou is ek nie meer dom nie.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tog het hierdie leerders nie meer potensiaal as wat hulle gehad het voor hulle kon lees nie. Wat hulle nou wel het, is die woordeskat om hul te kan uitdruk in ‘n manier wat ander en hulself kan verstaan.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Dit sal geen verskil maak aan die stand van ongelykheid in ons land indien ons nie die basiese en noodsaaklike lees kan vasl\u00ea in ons kinders nie,” s\u00ea Eigelaar-Meets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sosioloog en navorser Dr. Ilse Eigelaar-Meets was vanjaar die spreker tydens die jaarlikse Johan Cobrink-gedenklesing. 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