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Flourishing functional multilingualism: evidence from language repertoires in the Vaal Triangle region
(De Gruyter, 2012)
Currently, there is a debate about the potential language shift among speakers of African languages towards English. Scholars hold conflicting views about this issue and the debates are complicated because of the widespread ...
The continual conundrum of the "language across the curriculum" issue: lessons from the Bullock report (1975) for South African higher education today
((SAALT/SAVTO) South African Association of Language Teaching / Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Taalonderrig // Sabinet, 2012)
The link between language and learning and how to develop language across the curriculum is a persisting theme in education research over time. In this article, the first in a series, we wish to contribute to the current ...
Evaluation of the Cummins theoretical framework for higher education in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis/Routledge/NISC, 2010)
In the context of the successful bilingual education of children, the value of the theoretical framework of Jim Cummins is acknowledged by educators and researchers worldwide. This framework is also used extensively in ...
Complex systems, multilingualism and academic success in South African higher education
(Taylor & Francis/Routledge/NISC, 2010)
Scholars of academic success in higher education in South Africa struggle to find an integrated framework that can explain the interplay between heterogeneous elements that combine in dynamic ways to influence the academic ...
Explaining the ordinary magic of stable African multilingualism in the Vaal Triangle region in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)
The academic and public debates about language maintenance and language shift in the post-1994 South Africa distract attention from the more productive and important endeavour of explaining the nature of the multilingualism ...