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Direct linkBlommaert, Jan; Muyllaert, Nathalie; Huysmans, Marieke; Dyers, Charlyn – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2005
This paper reports on an ethnographic study of classroom practices in a township school in the Wesbank settlement near Cape Town, South Africa. Focusing on the ways in which a multilingual and highly diverse student population confronts English literacy, we argue for a view in which norms are seen as emergent and contingent on occasion, place,…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics
