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…

The process of educational therapy is described in a sequence of phases identified as exploration, experimentation, reflection, and working through. The workings of this process are explained through the use of a case study. (CT)