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• WP192 Constructing invisibility: An immigrant learner in South Africa

  Kerfoot & Tatah

  2016

  Key words: language learning, South Africa

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• WP132 "It's just taking our souls back": Apartheid and race in the discourses of young South Africans

  Bock & Hunt

  2014

  Although apartheid officially ended in 1994, the issue of race as a primary identity marker has continued to permeate many aspects of private and public life in a post-apartheid South Africa. This paper seeks to understand how youth at two South …

  Key words: sociolinguistics, South Africa

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• WP36 Peripheral normativity: Literacy & the production of locality in a South African township school

  Blommaert, Muyllaert, Huysmans & Dyers

  2006

  This paper reports on an ethnographic study of classroom practices in a township school in the Wesbank settlement near Cape Town, South Africa. Focusing on the ways in which a multilingual and highly diverse student population confronts English …

  Key words: globalisation, literacy, locality, marginalisation, normativity, repertoires, South Africa, world Englishes

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