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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Language in education"”.
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Language planning and social transformation in the Limpopo Province: The role of language in education
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The change of language and the language of change : a consideration of some of the assumptions behind non-governmental language planning projects : implications for language in education policy
Language planning and language policy are currently being debated by both politicians and educationists. Language policy is seen by both Afrikaner nationalists and some progressive educationists as the key to political and economic power. This dissertation argues that language policy-making alone …
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An examination of classroom practices for the development of writing in English as a second language in a Malawian primary school
… out of an awareness of the history of Malawi' s language in education policy from the era of British colonialism to the present multilingual era. English is given a high status in schools despite the fact that many more teachers and pupils speak local languages. Malawi's new language in education …
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The role of a school community's perceptions of the implications of a change in language policy in a Western Cape primary school
… constitution, South African Schools Act and the Language in Education Policy (LiEP) all advocate the development and promotion of all official languages. LiEP also gives a clear directive for additive bilingualism whereby the home language of learners should be encouraged as the foundation for …
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Assessment of the Medium of Instruction on Pupils Academic Performance in Literacy: a Study of Selected Lower Primary Schools in Ghana
… how the choice of a particular medium of instruction supports Primary Class Three (P.3) pupils’ academic performance in literacy. The need for this research has been occasioned by the inconsistencies that exist in Ghana’s language-in-education policy. The current language-in-education …
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Towards an understanding of the benefits of utilising Anglo-African literature as source material in the enrichment of mother tongue educational texts
This study is an attempt at comprehending the language in education dilemma in south Africa. It has been suggested that literature be used in the development of home language education curricula. Independent research conducted for this thesis has led to the notion that educationdisadvantages …
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Language practices and pupil performance in rural and urban Grade 1 primary classrooms in Swaziland
This study of language practices and pupil performance in Grade 1 urban and rural classrooms in Swaziland attempts to analyse and evaluate the Swaziland Language-in- Education Policy in Grade 1 classrooms. It is derived from an observation that within the Swaziland Education System there are two …
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Language Attitudes and Code-switching Behaviour in a Multilingual Educational Context: The Case of Luxembourg
This thesis is a sociolinguistic investigation of language attitudes and code-switching behaviour in Luxembourg’s multilingual education system. Through a large-scale questionnaire study of language attitudes and an ethnographic study of attitudes and multilingual classroom behaviour, this study …
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Dochas is Duchas, Hope and Heritage Gaelscoileanna; Transforming Power and Linguistic Ideology
This thesis examines Gaelscoileanna in terms of the socio-historical, political, and ideological contexts from which the movement emerges, and their place in contemporary Irish society. Employing ‘machine theory’, the project examines the movement as both the product of, and also productive of …
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DEMOCRATISATION OF THE CLASSROOM: AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ LANGUAGE PRACTICES IN SELECTED MULTILINGUAL CLASSROOMS OF CHIBOMBO DISTRICT
Considering that Zambia is a multilingual country and that all the classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6 …
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Democratisation of the classroom:an analysis of teachers' language practices in selected multilingual classrooms of Chibombo, district.
Considering that Zambia is a multilingual country and that all the classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6 …
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DEMOCRATISATION OF THE CLASSROOM: AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ LANGUAGE PRACTICES IN SELECTED MULTILINGUAL CLASSROOMS OF CHIBOMBO DISTRICT
Considering that Zambia is a multilingual country and that all the classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6 …
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Democratisation of the classroom:an analysis of teachers' language practices in selected multilingual classrooms of Chibombo, district.
Considering that Zambia is a multilingual country and that all the classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6 …
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Schools as fertile ground for the promotion of multilingualism in South Africa
… reviewed the South African Constitution, the Language-in Education Policy (2004) and the National Language Policy Framework (2002), with the intention to compare certain promulgations on the issue of language use in South Africa. The constitution is unequivocal about the promotion of …
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Étude Descriptive et Comparative du Programme de Français au Nigeria et en Saskatchewan
Teaching and learning a new language in a culturally and linguistically diversified country can be very challenging, and Nigeria is no exception to this. Although the country has declared French as its second official language in 1996 in an official declaration by the late Head of State Sani …
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Qualitative study of some effects of using English as a language of instruction at Standard 2 and 5 in the Botswana education system, where learners are not primary language speakers of English
… purpose of this study is to address the issue of language in education policy in Botswana where English is used as a language of instruction at the lower levels of primary education, in this instance focusing on grades 2 and 5. Bearing in mind that English is not the learners' first language, this …
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English-only instruction: A comparative case-study of a rural and an urban basic school in Ghana
… a critical look at ‘English-only’ medium of instruction in Ghana. Like many African countries, Ghana has multiple languages. Davis and Agbenyega (2012) estimate that Ghana has approximately 49 spoken languages and dialects. Local languages are used for everyday life in local communities. …
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Strategies that can be used to promote the use of indigenous African languages for teaching and learning in schools: an exploratory case study of isiZulu
… that can be used to promote the use of indigenous African languages for teaching and learning in the General Education and Training (GET) and (Further Education and Training (FET) phases of schooling in South Africa. The motivation for the study came from the constitutional recognition …
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A study of the Namibian transitional language policy in education and the role of code-switching in achieving it
The study investigated the Namibian transitional language in education policy and the role of code-switching in achieving it. Firstly, the study identified the types, structures and roles of code-switching in the Grade 4 bilingual classroom. Secondly, the study established the challenges faced by …
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Constructing a pedagogical third space with multilingual children: A case study of the bilingual Stars of Today Literacy Club# (STLC#)
This thesis was motivated by my own family's language biography, and the social justice work I have been doing over the years in bi-multilingual education. This work has involved challenging the continuation of Apartheid language in education policy in practice in schools for Black African language …
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