Language planning and language policy both are important to discuss in the educational background in South Africa. In the case of South Africa Language planning and policy are long and have complex history in South Africa. In the way, the language policy that is the education has completed in South Africa. Deaf people have the policies systems in which people of different races were separated the long -awaited dismantling by the education and linguistic. This chapter was written as step to problem the subject of variation in the signed language that used in South Africa. Language policy developments in South Africa have changed that have the government with the widely roles and functions to the various languages of the country. There is now the equal promotion of respect for, and use of other languages. There is growing literature, both in applied linguistics and education that are related to language-in-education policy in South Africa. One area in which the literature remains fairly sparse, however, it has been the of the implications of current government policy for South Africa Sign Language (SASL) ( cf. Reagan, Penn and Ogilvy 2006; Reagan 2007a). The goal of this article is an overview of the complex issues presented by the case of SASL for language-in-education policy.
Background of the education in system
In South Africa, the government which deals with an area of education were set up for staff budget, syllabi, curriculum and standards. There was an area which is governed as part of a country in South Africa. Three "race" groups which are different separate of education for white scholars, black scholars and another for scholars of Indian in national of education. The financial support was based totally on the relative colour ranking in the country. The national government made their decision relating to language policy for education. It was provided directly related to the nature colour of the various groups. Since 1994, South Africa education structures have the principle and equality of education opportunity for all. A new constitution of the Republic of South Africa, was accepted in 1996 in the world. White, colored (mixed race), Indian and black Deaf students attends separate in schools. Education legislation must be providing the medium of instruction in the colored schools. It would be either English or Africkaans; in the Indian schools, English; and in the back schools where pupils came from nine different spoken language backgrounds, English. However, 1999, it is no single school for the Deaf in South Africa to put into practice. The reason is there are only four teachers of the Deaf. The signed language of a community is no related to the spoken language of the community in education policy.
South Africa Sign language in Deaf Education (SASL)
Sign languages are fully and completely human languages. They are important that different natural sign languages use for Deaf languages in other societies for communication, but deaf and hearing people have contact sign languages in their interactions, manual sign codes for spoken languages which are used in educational setting (cf. Bornstein 1990). It is important to make a not of SASL that the language in DEAF-DEAF communicative interactions in south Africa is unrelated to linguistic of any of the spoken language.
There are two cases making both the linguistic and the educational case for the using sign language in the education for Deaf children. Sign languages are strongly related to the acquisition of sign language for Deaf children. They have acquisition of natural sign language through similar, the acquisition of spoken language. In additional, sign language can be used to teach both academic content and literacy skill for deaf children. They acquired in early language acquisition for the development of cognitive skill.
The use of sign language is an issue of using of child's mother tongue. The majority of deaf children who are generally signing and deaf parents or hearing parents, but sign language is no fact as gesture. Deaf children are making understanding in both of educationally and linguistically for the use of sign language, this does not mean that it is common. They have in formal educational settings which in a form of contact sign language. All students would be functional bilingualism in the natural sign language of the society when 1989 at Gallaudet University, teaching would take place through the medium of the right natural sign language and the goal for all students. However, they do not study and shared with their hearing peers in the common curriculum as would also study the history of Deaf cultures and communities in one of the world. Therefore, the students who would truly be both bilingual and bicultural in the goal of a programme, while still at home in the DEAF-WORLD. This programme and of course would have positively effect of South African Sign Language and language-in-education 175 to involve Deaf students studying together. This is an important point of "good thing" in educational circles: to provide a more right for the situation and satisfying education for all students, both the "abled" and "disabled" to end the past practices of wrongly society students with disabilities. These are without doubt both excellent goals, but still the problem for Deaf students means a lack of important contact with other Deaf people to given small of Deaf students in area of place. It is important to make a note of hearing students do not automatically rule out in an educational setting but only with the cleat understanding of project rests on the negation response of hearing cultural, behavioural and linguistic norms. Additional, an educational programme beached in a cultural model of Deafness and encouragement Deaf children to be exposed to a big variety of Deaf adults. They attached the important of sign language and, look alike familiarity with the Deaf culture in an educational practice.
Recommendations for language-in-education policy in South Africa
In South Africa, there are the important of SASL and a minority language of the Deaf, and a cultural minority group, in many ways of the situation of many other languages 9cf.Reagan 2007a). The social and political forces are about language and language policy but have discussions about human right, economic and social justice, education in the countries.
Deaf children explore the implications of the knowledge related to sign language an idea in detail for language-in education policy in South Africa. First, there are the general philosophical and conceptual framework in which have discussed about education and language policy. Second, there are context-bound recommendation is to related the case of South Africa from the knowledge. This explanation need in detail below.
General implications and recommendation of sociocultural view of deafness for language-in-education policy and context in South Africa
The general philosophical and conceptual implications can be copied from the assessable discussion therefore three broad sets of important: 1) the quality of being legal of sign language and Deaf culture, 2) pathological model in the linguistic, cultural and educational issues related to the Deaf, and 3) the importance experience and empowerment perspectives in a situation. Sign languages are "Real" languages, and the Deaf culture. It is both real and vibrant internationally in South African context.
It is related to another barrier to the development of right responses to deafness and the use of sign language (cf. Branson and Miller 1993: 21-41, 2002:233-253; Reagan 2002c: 41-66; Ladd 2003: 434-461) as Hahn (1986) has argued with respect to paternalism toward disabled people in general, Timpothy Reagan 180)
The elements of a society communicate deep for the members of a minority group at the same time and keeping them in a position of social; and economic subordination. It act the protectors, guides, leaders, role-models and intermediaries for disabled one person who like children to understood that be helpless, dependent, sexual, economically unproductive, physically limited, emotionally immature, and acceptable.
In both case, acceptable of sign language and Deaf culture that hearing paternalism toward the DEAF-WORLD. If any other cultural and linguistic community, would be dismissed out-of-hand, and labelling them, "ablest" would clear no be unreasonable (cf. Phillipson 1988). Deaf people have been growing an important development in the DEAF-WORLD internationally in final years as well-known disabilities studies South African Sign Language and language-in-education policy 181.
Context-specific implications and recommendations for the South Africa is an important suggestion related to both educational practice and language policy issues more generally. Recommendations include: SASL should be an acknowledged medium of instruction in deaf education. In many situations, these will be making clearly a solid foundation and communicative competence in SASL for students. Additional, Deaf person be become a new member of an organization for teaching positively and confidently in deaf education as well as hearing educational settings and should be taken to encourage deaf children.
There are hearing groups and individuals to should be terms for the teaching of SASL. Hearing parents of Deaf children should be made special terms as well as teachers of the Deaf and look alike professionals to come into contact with the Deaf. Moreover, SASL should be assessable for second/additional language option for students in both government school and also university settings. SASL should be new as one of the official languages of South Africa and any other official language as the same status.
The Pan South African Language Board and other governmental Agencies should be support to provide Language planning and policy for the teaching and learning of SASL and use of settings in the media.
It is important to make a note of recommendations in any way planned to suggest that Deaf students must acquire critical for learning to read and write languages to function the best of their abilities in the governing hearing society. The deaf need live in what is a multilingual environment as it should be for all South Africans.
Language rights in Deaf education
The sign language for the education of Deaf children is not only good educational and linguistic practice. Issues of language rights are the more general with both human rights and language policy. It has been getting attention from both linguistic and policy-makers in new years. Deaf have written in language rights in the educational context. It is Skutnabb-kangas and Phillipson 1995; Kontra, Phillpson, Skutnabb-Kangas and Varady 1999; Phillipson 2000; Skutnabb-Kangas 2000a, 2000b; May 2006. The case of the language right for sign language is an area that has received important awareness in the regard. Minority Language rights both have implications for resource allocation because they touch on important issues of national and ethnic identity for the Deaf and the huge majority of Deaf people have hearing parents. However, there is powerful and compelling literature dealing explicitly with the language rights of the Deaf. The language of instruction for Deaf children is not only a linguistic and pedagogical matter but is also a matter of human rights.
Conclusion
It is good about SASL that issues are important. This is a case of SASL for language-in-education policy and, a cycle recommendations how these issues might be addressed best about SASL and Language-in-education policy. Studies have researched the issues of sign language and the DEAF-WORLD in educational settings. The social and educational presented for sign language and the culture of the DEAF-WORLD are ethical ones. Nobody is really free until Blacks are free. Freedom is indivisible. This same to the rights of cultural and linguistic groups and it is clear to apply to the case of the Deaf. Government provided better all official languages to create the development and use of sign language. Everyone has got right of education in the official Languages of choice in public educational institutions where education is reasonably practicable. It is clear to make the case include the linguistic and cultural community by Deaf people. Deaf people feel human right for sign language.
