Browsing by Subject "Language repertoire"
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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 ... -
FAMILY LANGUAGE POLICY: delibrate decisions by parents to educate their children via Afrikaans despite access to English in the family
(North-West University, 2019)Despite an expressed awareness of the hegemony and high status of English in the world today, there are English dominant and English-Afrikaans families within the Vaal Triangle Region, who opt for Afrikaans as the language ... -
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 native-speaker debate : the case of the Afrikaans-English teacher's identity in Thailand
(North-West University (South Africa), Vaal Triangle Campus, 2016)The discourse of the Native Speaker is situated within a rapidly globalising context where superdiversity and a pluralist worldview negate the very cornerstones of the concept Native-speaker (NS). However, when pro-NS ... -
The language repertoire of a Venda home language speaker: reflections on methodology
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Currently, there is a focus on the study of 'super-diverse' language repertoires in the field of sociolinguistics. New approaches advocate an emphasis on 'super- diverse' repertoires of individuals and new ways to conceive ...