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Download full textAkinyeye, Caroline; Plüddemann, Peter – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2016
The new language curriculum in South Africa recommends that extended writing be taught through a combination of text-based (or genre) and process approaches. This article reports on a study of the teaching and assessment of narrative writing in English as a first additional language (FAL) at a time of curriculum change. The setting is a Cape Flats…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Direct linkFinlayson, Rosalie; Slabbert, Sarah – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2003
The status of the current standard African languages has been seriously undermined by factors such as the association of the standardisation process with colonial and neo-colonial structures, the lack of function of the standards and the rise of high status non-standard urban varieties. This paper describes the process leading to and some…
Descriptors: African Languages, Urban Schools, Competition, Foreign Countries
