To put it differently, in what language are you spontaneously inclined to express your deepest feelings? This underlines a crucial problem in language learning and language teaching. But for the language learner and the language teacher, the challenge is how to fully appreciate all their important sociocultural contexts and apply the appropriate language to them. How strongly, for example, do you bond with your God when you pray in English, Kiswahili or your home language, say Lusamia? But here, exactly, is where the challenge lies, both for the language policymaker and the language teacher.

Source: Daily Nation July 25, 2020 06:22 UTC