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ERIC Number: EJ573747
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-1011-3487
Language and "Disadvantage" in South African Institutions of Higher Education: Implications of Critical Challenges to Second Language Acquisition Discourses for Academic Development Practitioners.
Boughey, C.
South African Journal of Higher Education, v12 n1 p166-73 1998
A survey of critical theory as it relates to understanding of the "language problem" at South African higher education institutions discusses implications of the belief that factors inherent to individuals are key elements of language acquisition, as well as the construct that successful language acquisition is an asocial, acultural, and apolitical phenomenon. Relates these ideological assumptions to contemporary language instruction. (Author/CH)
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Faculty, Critical Theory, Educational Theories, Educationally Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Ideology, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Language Teachers, Limited English Speaking, Literacy, Phenomenology, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: South Africa