ENGLISH AS THE LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

In 2005 I was for several weeks sitting hour after hour in the back of a class-room in a secondary school in Tanzania (Brock-Utne, 2005, 2013a). I observed students who did not understand what the teacher was saying when he spoke English, and often would ask the teacher to express himself in Kiswahili, a language they all knew very well. My eyes fell especially on one gentle looking boy who was completely passive and obviously did not understand anything of what was going on.