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Lara-Stephanie Krause-Alzaidi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The practices of sorting things out and bringing things together, which I summarise under the term relanguaging, sit between fluid, situated languaging practices and the administrative standard grid in education that relies on bounded, named languages. Relanguaging, I argue, was invisible to socio- and applied linguists' analytical vision because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Robyn Berghoff – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
A substantial body of research has examined the role of English in South Africans' linguistic repertoires. Many of these studies have investigated whether a language shift towards English might be underway among first-language (L1) speakers of the indigenous languages. At the same time, the role of English in the repertoires of L1 English speakers…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, African Languages, Multilingualism
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Rosemary Wildsmith-Cromarty; Caroline Dyer; Taadi Modipa – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This article examines the visibility of an African language, isiZulu, in the public domain of education in South Africa. It explores synergies and disjunctures in language use and exposure for children across the continuum from home to ECD centre and early primary school, and how they affect children's competence in reading in two languages by…
Descriptors: African Languages, Reading Instruction, Native Language, English (Second Language)
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Posel, Dorrit; Hunter, Mark; Rudwick, Stephanie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
In this study, we revisit the status of English relative to the African languages in South Africa by analysing new national data on the main language spoken outside the home. These data, which derive from the General Household Surveys of 2017 and 2018, complement commonly collected data on the main language spoken within the home. Our analysis…
Descriptors: Incidence, African Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Carolyn McKinney – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Framed by decolonial theory, this paper explores how language and literacy ideologies, including Anglonormativity, or the expectation that children should be proficient in a standardised version of English and are deficient if not, shape language and literacy practices in South African classrooms. While not legitimised, the use of fluid language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Bilingualism, Ethnography, Decolonization
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Charamba, Erasmos – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Education for multilingual Physics students in South Africa still has a monolingual bias despite such pedagogy being repeatedly identified as the key factor in students' academic underachievement in the subject. The paper reports on the pivotal role language plays in the comprehension and subsequent academic performance of students in science…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Physics, Science Education, Teaching Methods
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Posel, Dorrit; Zeller, Jochen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
In the post-apartheid era, South Africa has adopted a language policy that gives official status to 11 languages (English, Afrikaans, and nine Bantu languages). However, English has remained the dominant language of business, public office, and education, and some research suggests that English is increasingly being spoken in domestic settings.…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, African Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
The academic and public debates about language maintenance and language shift in the post-1994 South Africa distract attention from the more productive and important endeavour of explaining the nature of the multilingualism observed among users of African languages in urban contexts. An explanation for this phenomenon is offered here, based on…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, African Languages, Foreign Countries, Surveys
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Hefer, Esté – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
Subtitling is a valuable tool for improving literacy and aiding language learning, but what happens when people are unable to read the subtitles? In a recent study on the reading of second language subtitles, participants were shown a subtitled short film while their eye movements were recorded by an SMI iViewX Hi-Speed eye tracker. It was found…
Descriptors: Television, Translation, African Languages, English (Second Language)
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Wee, Lionel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
The unavoidability of language makes it critical that language policies appeal to some notion of language neutrality as part of their rationale, in order to assuage concerns that the policies might otherwise be unduly discriminatory. However, the idea of language neutrality is deeply ideological in nature, since it is not only an attempt to treat…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Ethnic Groups, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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de Klerk, Vivian – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2000
Describes a survey in and around Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, which focused on the steady trickle of speakers of Xhosa into English-medium schools in the area. Examined the underlying reasons to send Xhosa children to these schools and the subsequent socio-psychological effects of the move on children. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Ethnicity, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction
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Bangeni, Bongi; Kapp, Rochelle – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2007
This paper draws on post-structuralist theories on language and identity to explore the shifting language attitudes of 15 "black" students over the course of their undergraduate studies at a historically "white" South African university. All the students speak an indigenous language as their first language. Those students who…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Ethnicity
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Chick, J. Keith; Wade, Rodrik – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
Discusses the sociolinguistic order in the new South Africa, traces the implications of English dominance in this order, and reflects on the difficulty of assembling an accurate picture of the sociolinguistic order of a society in times of rapid social change. Particular focus is on the processes of restandardization of standard South African…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, English, Foreign Countries, Language Dominance
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Chick, J. Keith – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2002
Reports on aspects of an ethnographic study carried out in six newly integrated schools in post-aparthied South Africa. Presents evidence that these schools are sites of struggle between competing discourses that construct, maintain, and change social identities in these communities and the wider society. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Ethnography