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Direct linkLightfoot, Amy; Balasubramanian, Anusha; Tsimpli, Ianthi; Mukhopadhyay, Lina; Treffers-Daller, Jeanine – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
India's linguistic diversity is reflected in classrooms across the country, where multiple languages are used by teachers and learners to negotiate meaning and instruction -- a multilingual, multicultural student body is the norm, whether in urban or rural contexts. This study documents teaching practices in English language and maths lessons in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Naidu, Katharine; Newfield, Denise – Education as Change, 2020
This article, based on a research project with learners in a township school in South Africa, seeks to discuss whether WhatsApp was able to transform the space of the poetry classroom in positive and productive ways. The project was designed in response to research in EFAL (English First Additional Language) classrooms that revealed the…
Descriptors: Poetry, English Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Download full textKimathi, Faith K.; Bertram, Carol – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2020
Background: Despite South Africa's huge investment in professional development, there is not a lot of research that shows that teachers change their teaching practices by attending formal interventions. This article focuses on English as First Additional Language (EFAL) and explores how one Grade 2 teacher changed her practice of oral language…
Descriptors: Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sibanda, Rockie – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2019
Background: Mother-tongue education in South African primary schools remains a challenge to policymakers. The situation is problematic in multilingual "lok'shin" (township) schools where the "lok'shin" lingua is not recognised as 'standard' language. This article raises the controversial possibility of positioning of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, African Languages, Native Language, Language of Instruction
Stoffelsma, Lieke – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2019
Background: South African learners have performed consistently poorly in reading assessments. This paper addresses two key components in improving reading literacy: vocabulary development and teacher knowledge and skills required for quality vocabulary instruction. Aim: This small-scale exploratory study reports on the English vocabulary teaching…
Descriptors: Slum Schools, Vocabulary Development, Reading Tests, English (Second Language)
Dowling, Tessa; Krause, Lara – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
A Grade 4 English language teacher in a township school in Cape Town, South Africa, in her quest to equip learners with new target language resources, is not held back by the perceived boundaries dividing named languages. Instead she employs language in creative and goal-directed ways that we believe have not received enough focused linguistic…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Slum Schools, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
