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WP346 Relinking with ubuntu multilingualism through bilingual science learning: Parents’ perspectives
2025
This paper contributes to the sparse literature on parents’ views on language in education policy in Southern Africa. The children of the parents interviewed in this study participated in a bilingual learning intervention in their Grade 4 science …
Key words: bilingual education, decoloniality, multilingualism, South Africa, ubuntu
WP132 "It's just taking our souls back": Apartheid and race in the discourses of young South Africans
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
WP36 Peripheral normativity: Literacy & the production of locality in a South African township school
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