Teaching - Learning Kiswahili in a Diglossic Context: A Usability Analysis or Language Habits in Lubumbashi

Kiswahili is one of the national languages of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The latter has generalised, for some years now, the teaching of local languages at primary level. In the city of Lubumbashi, it is Kiswahili. In the field, teachers and learners are faced with two variants of this language. The first is the Kiswahili required by the "ACCELERE!" approach and recorded in the textbooks at their disposal, and the second is the one used in everyday life. How often is the taught variant used by teachers and learners at school, at home and elsewhere? This study addresses this concern.