- Title
- The impact of translanguaging and acculturation towards implementation of the Incremental Indigenous African Languages programme in former Model-C schools (Alfred Nzo West District, Eastern Cape)
- Creator
- Lepheana, Jeremia
- ThesisAdvisor
- Kaschula, Russel H
- ThesisAdvisor
- Nkomo, Dion
- Subject
- Translanguaging (Linguistics)
- Subject
- Acculturation -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Model C schools (South Africa)
- Subject
- Multilingual education -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Multicultural education -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Incremental Indigenous African Languages Programme
- Date
- 2021-04
- Type
- thesis
- Type
- text
- Type
- Doctoral
- Type
- PhD
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177236
- Identifier
- vital:42802
- Identifier
- 10.21504/10962/177236
- Description
- This thesis explores the possibilities of multilingual language instruction within multi-ethnic classrooms in former Model-C schools shaped by multiple discursive practices. The researcher reviews current research on multilingualism and teaching and proposes strategies for overcoming the English prescriptivism, and monolingual mind-set in education. The research reported in this dissertation is both a qualitative and quantitative study, which sought to investigate the patterns of translanguaging in classrooms in five primary schools in Alfred Nzo West district (Maluti sub-district). In quantitative research, questionnaires were used to gather data from teachers and learners. In the qualitative research methodology, document analysis method of collecting data was employed. Purposive sampling was the major sampling method to ensure that relevant data was collected. Language in Education Policy formed the major analytical framework for this study. The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of translanguaging as it is used by teachers and learners in the class in selected primary schools in Alfred Nzo West district. The research focuses on how primary school learners and their teachers engage with teaching and learning, and the strategies that teachers use to promote the use of two or three languages in classrooms to help learners to understand content and concepts in English, Sesotho and isiXhosa as there are multi-ethnic classrooms in the district. The dissertation concludes with some reflections on the findings, implications of the findings for future research and training, and recommendations to use the languages of school children as rich resources for teaching and learning. The Socio-cultural theory formed the theoretical framework that guided this study. According to Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development, children learn through social interaction that includes collaborative and cooperative dialogue with someone who is more skilled in tasks they are trying to learn. The findings of this study show the misunderstandings of the LiEP, translanguaging and multilingual education. The study also shows the lack of confidence in the ability of African languages to provide quality education.
- Description
- Thesis (PhD) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages, 2021
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (217 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Lepheana, Jeremia
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
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