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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"critical language awareness"”.
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Teachers' understanding of critical language awareness and their enactment of this understanding in the classroom
… interventions was to help teachers understand critical literacy in order to implement Critical Language Awareness (CLA) as defined in the newly revised CAPS curriculum. Teachers need to master teaching CLA before its implementation in terms of the curriculum, introduced incrementally in 2012 in …
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Constructing Meaning: A Critical Linguistic Perspective on News Discourse
This study has implications for teaching critical language awareness to adults as well as students in and out of a school setting, and opens new grounds for research that would help devise strategies and methods of achieving this educational goal.
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Perspectives on bi/multilingual pedagogies: insights from a third-year linguistics module at a South African university
… in South Africa. Drawing on the notions of language ideologies, translanguaging and critical language awareness, the study explores the use of bi/multilingual pedagogies by third year linguistics lecturers and their students at a selected university in the Western Cape in South Africa. A …
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Teaching Reading As An Integrated Skill: An Evaluation of Two Popular ESL Textbooks
… so too does the need for effective English language instruction, and with that, effective instructional materials. With a growing population of adult English language learners with below basic prose literacy, the need for effective adult English language literacy instruction is also evident. …
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Speaking Identity: Language Investment and Agency Among Spanish Heritage Speakers
… identities and invest in their heritage language amid competing social forces. Drawing on frameworks of identity, agency, and critical language awareness, the study explores how Spanish shapes participants’ Latine identities and what factors influence their language investment. Using a …
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Language Ideology & Pedagogical Views Across Roles: Examining a Spanish Heritage Language Program
… within a university-level Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) program in Arizona, focusing on their language ideologies and critical language education efforts. The study, rooted in Critical Language Awareness (CLA) and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP) frameworks, challenges deficit-based …
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The challenges in the intellectualisation of indigenous languages in post-apartheid South Africa: what will it take to give the indigenous languages a directive in the implementation and monitoring of language policy in South Africa?
The language of an individual is another skin in ways that are many, a natural possession of any normal person we use to communicate our ideas and hopes, convey our beliefs and thoughts, explore our traditions and experiences, and improve the community of ours as well as the laws that regulate it. …
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Making meaning in academic writing: mature women students in higher education
… 1989, 1992a); the work of Clark and Ivanic on critical language awareness about academic writing (see for example Clark and Ivanic 1991); the work of Ivanic on social identity and authorship in student academic writing (1993; 1998); the notion of literacy practices as developed by a number of …