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Newfield, Denise; D'abdon, Raphael – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2015
This conceptual article theorises the role of poetry in English classrooms from a multimodal perspective. It discusses the gap between the practices of poetry inside and outside South African schools, particularly where English is taught as an additional language (EAL). The former is shown to be monomodal and prescriptive, while the latter is…
Descriptors: Poetry, Role, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Thesen, Lucia – TESOL Quarterly, 1997
Examines the discrepancy between the conventional categories by which five Black South African English language learners in their first year at a historically White, Anglophone tertiary institution are identified--"disadvantaged,""underprepared,""second language"--as well as the way these women identify themselves.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Discourse Analysis, English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Countries
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Barkhuizen, Gary P.; Gough, David – TESOL Quarterly, 1996
Focuses on the changing role and status of English within new language-in-education policies in South Africa. The article presents a model providing a descriptive framework for analyzing and evaluating decisions made relating to language-in-education planning. The article concludes by identifying issues related to the process of…
Descriptors: African Languages, Apartheid, Bantu Languages, Change Strategies
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Angelil-Carter, Shelley – TESOL Quarterly, 1997
Argues that acquisition of English-as-a-Second-Language research must take into account social context and power relations in order to explain language learning processes. Uses interview data and writing samples to demonstrate how a student in South Africa is influenced in his written discourse in English by his power relations and experience as a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Context Effect, Data Analysis
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Eastman, Carol M. – TESOL Quarterly, 1990
Reviews language planning theory and discusses language planning in South Africa, both historically and in a postapartheid context. A politically minimal approach is suggested for the postapartheid state, where individuals would receive instruction in English, while being encouraged or allowed to maintain their native languages. (21 references)…
Descriptors: Apartheid, Applied Linguistics, Educational Policy, English
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Peirce, Bronwyn Norton – TESOL Quarterly, 1989
Draws on a postculturalist theory of language in order to challenge the hegemony of communicative competence as a formulation of principles on which to base the teaching of English internationally. The current movement in South Africa for People's English is examined. (36 references). (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Role
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Cazden, Courtney B.; Starfield, Sue – TESOL Quarterly, 1994
In "Vygotsky and ESL Literacy Teaching," Cazden uses examples from South Africa to discuss internalization of socially acquired language, instruction as "scaffolded assistance," and social meanings of English-as-a-Second-Language literacy. In "Cummins, EAP, and Academic Literacy," Starfield focuses on a University of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Countries
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Kerfoot, Caroline – TESOL Quarterly, 1993
A participatory English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) curriculum development project in South Africa, "Use, Speak and Write English" (USWE), is described. USWE's attempt to translate its curriculum framework into workable materials is reported. Suggestions for handling the challenges facing adult basic education are suggested. (Contains 40…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language)
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Stein, Pippa – TESOL Quarterly, 2000
Describes a process for rethinking resources in the English-as-a-Second-Language classroom. Rethinking resources is possible through multimodal pedagogies that recognize students as remakers and transformers of the representational resources available to them. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Photography
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Barkhuizen, Gary P. – TESOL Quarterly, 1998
Describes the investigation of South African English-as-a-Second-Language high school students perceptions of classroom activities in terms of their feelings toward the activities as well as their value in current and future learning. Using questionnaires, interviews, and classroom observations, results found that the learners' perceptions often…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Observation Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)
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Samuel, Michael – TESOL Quarterly, 1998
Examines the challenges of preparing English language teachers in South Africa's postapartheid society, describing what it means to educate teachers in a transforming society and how to handle students' changing lives as they shed their baggage of apartheid schooling, interact with fellow preservice teachers, and attempt to change the lives of the…
Descriptors: Afrikaans, Apartheid, Diversity (Student), Educational Change
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Leibowitz, Brenda – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2005
This article reports on an exploratory qualitative study on 37 students' acquisition of language and literacy. The study closely analyzes a linguistics assignment written in English, the dominant language, given to students at University of the Western Cape belonging to groups speaking English, Afrikaans, or an African language. The study…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Multilingualism, Learning Experience, Familiarity