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Flourishing functional multilingualism: evidence from language repertoires in the Vaal Triangle region
(De Gruyter, 2012)
Currently, there is a debate about the potential language shift among speakers of African languages towards English. Scholars hold conflicting views about this issue and the debates are complicated because of the widespread ...
The continual conundrum of the "language across the curriculum" issue: lessons from the Bullock report (1975) for South African higher education today
((SAALT/SAVTO) South African Association of Language Teaching / Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Taalonderrig // Sabinet, 2012)
The link between language and learning and how to develop language across the curriculum is a persisting theme in education research over time. In this article, the first in a series, we wish to contribute to the current ...
The identity issue in bi- and multilingual repertoires in South Africa: Implications of Schneider's dynamic model
(John Benjamins, 2014)
Identity construction drives the development of postcolonial Englishes in Schneider’s Dynamic Model. Contexts like those of South Africa where wide-spread bi- and multilingualism are observed challenge notions of English ...
Discrepancies between perceptions of English proficiency and scores on English tests: implications for teaching English in South Africa
((SAALT/SAVTO) South African Association of Language Teaching / Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Taalonderrig // Sabinet, 2011)
Explaining the ordinary magic of stable African multilingualism in the Vaal Triangle region in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)
The academic and public debates about language maintenance and language shift in the post-1994 South Africa distract attention from the more productive and important endeavour of explaining the nature of the multilingualism ...