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Kaiper, Anna – International Review of Education, 2018
This article centres on the narrative of Thuli, a 62-year-old black South African domestic worker taking English language literacy classes outside of Johannesburg, South Africa. For Thuli, English literacy is of vital importance because, as she claims, "if you don't have English, you're just as good as a dead person". Drawing primarily…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Adult Basic Education, Personal Narratives, Racial Segregation