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Speaking with a Forked Tongue about Multilingualism in the Language Policy of a South African University
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Antia, Bassey E.; van der Merwe, Chanel – Language Policy, 2019
As part of a broader student campaign for 'free decolonized education', protests over language policies at select South African universities between 2015 and 2016 belied widespread positive appraisals of these policies, and revealed what is possibly an internal contradiction of the campaign. The discourse prior to the protests (e.g.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Universities, School Policy
Epistemological Access through Lecture Materials in Multiple Modes and Language Varieties: The Role of Ideologies and Multilingual Literacy Practices in Student Evaluations of Such Materials at a South African University
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Antia, Bassey E.; Dyers, Charlyn – Language Policy, 2016
This paper seeks to address the ways in which ideology and literacy practices shape the responses of students to an ongoing initiative at the University of the Western Cape aimed at diversifying options for epistemological access, specifically the language varieties and the modes in which parts of the curriculum for a third year linguistics module…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Language of Instruction, Indo European Languages, African Languages