The majority of us are guilty of looking up facts or the definition of words on Google or other search engines. We’ve let go of using dictionaries completely.
However, according to Dr Phillip Louw: Publishing Manager of Dictionaries and Literature, Oxford University Press Southern Africa explains that ‘’the language expressing those facts is not suitable for your child’s age group, education phase 1 or literacy level (even less so after the educational backlogs created by the pandemic); and does not have the subject vocabulary as specified by the curriculum, the language used in the classroom, or the dialect unique to our country“.
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