ENG1503 ASSIGNMENT 2 2026 - DISTINCTION | DUE 15 APRIL 2026

ENG1503 ASSIGNMENT 2 SEMESTER 1 2026 - DISTINCTION | DUE 15 May 2026 Your essay will be assessed using an assessment rubric provided at the end of this document. Before submitting your assignment, please consult the rubric in this document to make sure that you have addressed all the aspects in the assessment criteria. N.B.: Refer to the three PDF articles embedded in this document to support your responses. You are ONLY permitted to use in-text citations from the provided sources to support your arguments. DO NOT refer to any external sources not listed or cited below. To avoid failing this assignment, DO NOT copy directly from these sources, but rather paraphrase any information that you have borrowed from the sources and acknowledge them accordingly. Apply the knowledge you have been taught on proper acknowledgement of sources, academic integrity and avoiding plagiarism. Read the extract below and answer the question that follows: South Africa’s constitution has 11 official languages, and it promotes the development of the Khoi, Nama, and San languages, as well as sign language (The South African Constitution, 2012). HEIs have to develop institutional language policies that are informed by the language policy framework for public higher education institutions, as determined in terms of Section 27(2) of the Higher Education Act, 101 of 1997 (as amended) (DHET, 2020) and by the South African Constitution. This language policy framework encourages multilingualism and the development of African languages to become LoLTs alongside English and Afrikaans. It states that: Language continues to be a barrier to access and success for many students at South African higher education institutions. Despite their status as official languages, indigenous languages have in the past and at present, structurally not been afforded the official space to function as academic and scientific languages … The persistent underdevelopment and undervaluing of indigenous languages should not be allowed if public higher education institutions are to meet the diverse linguistic needs of their student population. Conditions must therefore, be created for the development and strengthening of indigenous languages as languages of meaningful academic discourse, as well as sources of knowledge in the different disciplines of higher education. (p. 9) Using the extract above as a point of reference, do you think multilingualism should be adopted as an approach to teaching, learning, and assessment in countries that are linguistically diverse? Think of a country that has a diverse linguistic background and read the articles listed below. Based on the sources provided above and the content of the articles, write an argumentative essay in which you take a clear stance either agreeing or disagreeing with the statement. In your essay, provide three wellsupported arguments or solutions to justify your position. Before you begin your argumentative essay, follow the instructions below carefully: 1. Read the three articles carefully and use the information you have found to support your stance in your argumentative essay. 2. Plan your writing by mind-mapping your identified ideas. DO NOT submit your mindmap. 3. Remember to only cite from the THREE sources included in this document. 4. To access the full text articles, click on the links below: Link 1: Link 2: Link 3: