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Banda, Felix – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
Drawing on the notion of translanguaging, I show how learners in a Black township secondary school in Cape Town use their multilingual repertoire to achieve power, agency and voice. I use the conceptualisation of the prototypical pedagogical macrogenre from systemic functional linguistics to show how translanguaging can be used strategically to…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), African Languages, Secondary School Students
Mora, Raúl A. – Online Submission, 2011
This keynote address will discuss the findings and implications stemming from a study of what literacy means for a group of 12 teachers and teacher educators. It will also discuss the factors that have caused the ongoing evolution of these ideas about literacy. Relying on the idea of a "permeable literacy continuum," which uses five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, English Instruction, Teacher Attitudes