Leketi Makalela
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 76324 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Leketi Makalela |
| NOMBRES | Leketi |
| APELLIDO | Makalela |
| FIRMA | MAKALELA L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6375-5839 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Integrating ICT in Rwandan schools to enhance access proficiency and utilization
This study investigated the integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) among in-service secondary school teachers in Rwanda, focusing on gaps in access, proficiency, and utilization. A mixed-methods research design was employed, combining quantitative and qualitative approaches to provide a comprehensive understanding of teachers’ experiences, attitudes, and challenges regarding ICT use in education. Data were collected from 18…
Enhancing academic writing in higher education
In the realm of global higher education, the efficacy of English for Academic Purposes courses remains hampered by a pedagogical disconnect, particularly in the Global South, where Western-centric educational models often fail to align with local linguistic and cultural contexts. This study pivots towards decolonising academic literacy by examining the integration of African languages within English for Academic Purposes frameworks at a Namibian …
Languages without limits
Educação linguística e cultural mediada por tecnologias digitais em um mundo multipolar contemporâneo
Nesta seção temática da revista Domínios da Linguagem recebemos artigos e relatos de pesquisas que tratam do tema da educação linguística e/ou cultural mediadas por tecnologias digitais em um mundo multipolar contemporâneo. O referido dossiê reúne um conjunto plural e articulado de pesquisas que investigam as relações entre linguagem, educação e tecnologias digitais em diferentes níveis de ensino, contextos institucionais e perspectivas teóricas.…
Apresentação do dossiê “Decolonialidade e educação linguística no sul global
Este dossiê, publicado na Revista Entretextos, está organizado em três eixos temáticos, divididos em duas partes que abordam diferentes dimensões da decolonialidade. Na primeira parte, mais geral, os dois primeiros eixos apresentam trabalhos que discutem os fundamentos teóricos da decolonialidade e suas manifestações em diversos contextos globais. Esses textos oferecem uma análise crítica dos conceitos e das implicações da decolonialidade, consid…
Linguística Aplicada para e no Sul Global
In this special issue, focusing on research developed through the lens of Epistemologies of the South (Molefi Asante, 2007; Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Meneses, 2020, Jean Comaroff and Jane Gordon, 2022; Pennycook; Makoni, 2019), researchers from Brazil and the Global South(s) submitted articles, essays, reviews and interviews based on the following axes: i) The politics of language constitution and its metalanguage in the Global South(s); ii)…
Rethinking Research in Applied Linguistics
During the 1st International Congress of Critical Applied Linguistics (ICCAL) - held in Brasilia-DF, Brazil, from October 19 to 21, 2015, by the “Group for Critical and Advanced Language Studies” [Grupo de Estudos Críticos e Avançados em Linguagens) - Alastair Pennycook (University of Technology, Sydney/Australia and the MultiLing Center at the University of Oslo, Norway) gave the event’s opening lecture entitled Critical Applied Linguistics Chal…
Language, Race and the Global South
Língua, Raça E O Sul Global
Unlocking Academic success through translanguaging
writing is a core academic activity essential for success in higher education. Proficiency in this skill is crucial for students to perform various academic tasks. However, summary writing poses significant challenges for multilingual students in South Africa, particularly in contexts where monolingual practices prevail. This qualitative study investigates the impact of translanguaging on the summary writing skills of multilingual students at a S…
Multilingual Immigrant Learner Identities (MILI)
Challenging Monolingualism
The increasing use of translanguaging approaches in the past two decades has actively contributed to the constant disruption of monolingual educational paradigms. While translanguaging's potential to challenge prevailing language ideologies is widely acknowledged, a significant gap exists in understanding its application and impact within Global South contexts, particularly beyond its use as a mere scaffolding tool. This study seeks to fill this …
Effects of Language Policies of Nigeria and South Africa on Linguistic Diversity and Classification of Indigenous Languages
This study investigated the effects of language policies implemented in Nigeria and South Africa on linguistic diversity and how these two nations categorized their indigenous languages. In this present study, qualitative research methodology was used, and a purposive sampling method was used to select Nigeria’s 2013 Language Policy from the National Policy of Education and South Africa’s 1996 Language in Education Policy. Thematic analysis was c…
Success Stories of Multilingual Literacy
In a progressively interrelated world, the advancement of strong multilingual literacy skills among learners is of great importance. This article showcases successful multilingual literacy initiatives, analyzing their implementation and impact. The study revealed a great positive influence on communities and individuals after the initiatives. The predominant aim is to give extra weight to the indispensable importance of appreciating and paying at…
Epistemologias e praxiologias decoloniais nos estudos de línguas/linguagens e na educação linguística
Translinguagem ubuntu e educação multilíngue no Sul Global
Entrevista
Apresentação de dossiê
No contexto da pandemia da Covid-19, escancara-se a diversidade cultural e a desigualdade social presentes no Brasil, sobretudo, nas práticas educativas, em especial na educação linguística, que é o foco deste Dossiê. Desse modo, evidencia-se o valor do reconhecimento da multiculturalidade. Trata-se de uma construção histórica, fruto de um processo de luta e embate social, não sendo, portanto, um fenômeno natural, espontâneo, uma vez que represen…
The language enigma
Merging English Home Language and First Additional Language curricula
South Africa has a uniquely differentiated English curriculum in a bid to cater for diverse proficiency levels prevalent among its learner population. While this stride made sense in a population with one of the highest inequalities in the world, it is equally important to reflect on whether the differentiated systems do serve the purpose of equal access in relation to the quality of provision. Surprisingly, very little research has been carried …
The (re)making of an African language
It is a well-established fact that languages of the world have different typological parameters despite their universality in key structures. These different typologies predict various ways of knowing, teaching and assessing. Despite the plethora of knowledge systems available in linguistics and educational research worldwide, African languages of Bantu origin have been residually neglected and versioned from Germanic languages for curriculum dev…
Translanguaging Ubuntu
As práticas educacionais do Sul Global permanecem, em geral, monolíngues, apesar dos ricos repositórios de formas locais de conhecer e ser. A translanguaging como campo de estudo deu um passo adiante para decolonizar as salas de aula de línguas e oferecer agências aos professores e um acesso mais profundo ao conhecimento aos alunos. No entanto, as interpretações desse fenômeno ainda são linguísticas baseadas em programas tradicionais de educação …
Developing summary writing skills through translanguaging
Translanguaging, an umbrella term used to refer to pedagogical approaches that engage the learners’ home languages as a resource, is praised for positive outcomes when its techniques are employed in teaching and learning in multilingual settings. This article examines the effects of translanguaging on learners’ ability to reorganise texts after reading texts in isiXhosa as the learners’ home language, and English as their first additional languag…
Metaliteracy and writing among 4th grade multilingual students in South Africa
Literacy in the twenty-first century global environment is increasingly essential to participation in society. Literacy skills include not only the ability to read, write, and interact with text, but also the capacity to use semiotic (sign) systems, numeracy, multiple modalities, and to link oracy to text using computerised devices. Despite this array of literacies, writing remains one of the least understood – yet increasingly important – skills…
Community elders' narrative accounts of ubuntu translanguaging
Ubuntu translanguaging
Multilingual education practices worldwide are still characterised by monolingual bias that can be tracked as far back as the European Enlightenment period. Yet the majority of learners employ meta-discursive regimes that are versatile, mobile and fluid in response to transnational mobility and blurring of boundaries between nation states in the 21st century. Taking account of African sociolinguistic contexts predating European colonialism, I dra…
Community elders' narrative accounts of ubuntu translanguaging
Making sense of BSAE for linguistic democracy in South Africa
This paper re-examines the debate over the emergence of Black South African English (BSAE) as a variety of English that is institutionalized with distinct properties. It focuses on the tense logic in Bantu languages and discourse markers that chiefly account for uniquely BSAE features. Through an in-depth analysis of these linguistic properties, the paper presents fresh angles of reconceptualizing the status of BSAE, which might move the debate t…
Black South African English on the radio
For most rural communities in South Africa, community radio remains the most common mass communication channel which models English speech forms and functions. Whereas print media has received some attention in the earlier works on Black South African English (BSAE) research, the speech tokens used in the radio have not been empirically studied to date. In order to fill this gap and expand previous work on the variety, this study investigated hig…
Metaliteracy and writing among 4th grade multilingual students in South Africa
Literacy in the twenty-first century global environment is increasingly essential to participation in society. Literacy skills include not only the ability to read, write, and interact with text, but also the capacity to use semiotic (sign) systems, numeracy, multiple modalities, and to link oracy to text using computerised devices. Despite this array of literacies, writing remains one of the least understood – yet increasingly important – skills…
Identity negotiation in a super-diverse community
This article reports on multilingual adolescent youth's negotiation of identities in a languaging South African environment. Focus group dialogues of 17 Grade 11 multilingual students from the South Western Townships (Soweto) in Johannesburg were analysed using conversational analysis techniques from a selected data pool that was generated over a period of three hours. The results of the study show a rift between classroom language and out of sch…
Making sense of BSAE for linguistic democracy in South Africa
This paper re-examines the debate over the emergence of Black South African English (BSAE) as a variety of English that is institutionalized with distinct properties. It focuses on the tense logic in Bantu languages and discourse markers that chiefly account for uniquely BSAE features. Through an in-depth analysis of these linguistic properties, the paper presents fresh angles of reconceptualizing the status of BSAE, which might move the debate t…
Harmonizing South African Sotho Language Varieties
This study investigated degrees of mutual intelligibility among 3 structurally related languages in South Africa: Sepedi, Sesotho, and Setswana. To compare reading proficiency of mother-tongue speakers who enrolled for freshman courses at the University of Limpopo, 4 reading experimental conditions, in the 3 languages and 1 in a harmonized text, were conducted. Using one-way analyses of variance to explore differential performance of the particip…
The golden lady
Personal narratives can be powerful venues for understanding human experiences. In this paper, we tell the story of Lutanyani, a Black South African multilingual teacher and author of supplemental reading materials in a marginalized South African language. Through various word images, we convey the role of language, in particular written language, in Lutanyani’s life. For Lutanyani, writing serves as ‘a healing process’ in two ways: (1) as a ling…
Black South African English on the radio
For most rural communities in South Africa, community radio remains the most common mass communication channel which models English speech forms and functions. Whereas print media has received some attention in the earlier works on Black South African English (BSAE) research, the speech tokens used in the radio have not been empirically studied to date. In order to fill this gap and expand previous work on the variety, this study investigated hig…
Fluid identity construction in language contact zones
This study investigated how semi-urban, multi-ethnic and multilingual students in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, negotiate their new identities through languaging experiences. Metacognitive reflections of their recreated language spaces were collected through 20 written narratives, which were analysed using a universalist reductionist approach. The results of the study revealed highly complex identifying processes that mark fluid, multip…
Moving out of linguistic boxes
This paper reports on an investigation into the efficacy of a teacher preparation programme that introduced the teaching of African languages to speakers of other African languages in order to produce multi-competent and multi-vocal teachers. A mixed method approach was used to elicit from a pool of 60 (30 experimental; 30 control group) multilingual pre-service teachers the participants’ storied reflections and their reading and vocabulary achie…
Translanguaging as a vehicle for epistemic access
African multilingualism has always been construed from a monoglossic (i.e., one language at a time) lens despite the pretensions of plural language policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study reported in this paper explored the efficacy of alternating languages of input and output in the same lessons in order to offset linguistic fixity that is often experienced in monolingual classrooms. I present two case studies of translanguaging practices, one…
Breaking African Language Boundaries
The notion of translanguaging has recently attracted attention in bilingual educational contexts worldwide. Noteworthy, however, is a paucity of studies that have assessed its effectiveness as a teachable strategy in complex African multilingual classrooms. This study investigated metacognitive reflections of 15 (n=15) student teachers towards their use of discursive language practices in learning Sepedi as an additional language in a teacher edu…
Narrative interpretation of HIV/Aids messages
This study examined the use of a locally developed storytelling prompt as an alternative medium for HIV and AIDS awareness and prevention messages among rural university students in Limpopo Province, South Africa. An assessment of first-year students’ (n = 21) response to a storytelling stimulus with local and familiar content shows a high uptake of the content messages in six persuasive narrative mediators: recall, narrative interest, absorption…
Identity negotiation in a super-diverse community
This article reports on multilingual adolescent youth's negotiation of identities in a languaging South African environment. Focus group dialogues of 17 Grade 11 multilingual students from the South Western Townships (Soweto) in Johannesburg were analysed using conversational analysis techniques from a selected data pool that was generated over a period of three hours. The results of the study show a rift between classroom language and out of sch…
Translanguaging practices in complex multilingual spaces
Whereas the use of discursive linguistic resources among multilingual speakers has been closely scrutinized in recent years, highly complex multilingual spaces have not been adequately documented in research. This article reports on new sociolinguistic developments in post-Apartheid South Africa and explores how people mobility and integration of a historically divided society produces hybrid ways of identifying and making sense of the world. Ana…
Ubuntu translanguaging
Multilingual education practices worldwide are still characterised by monolingual bias that can be tracked as far back as the European Enlightenment period. Yet the majority of learners employ meta-discursive regimes that are versatile, mobile and fluid in response to transnational mobility and blurring of boundaries between nation states in the 21st century. Taking account of African sociolinguistic contexts predating European colonialism, I dra…
Community elders' narrative accounts of ubuntu translanguaging
Metaliteracy and writing among 4th grade multilingual students in South Africa
Literacy in the twenty-first century global environment is increasingly essential to participation in society. Literacy skills include not only the ability to read, write, and interact with text, but also the capacity to use semiotic (sign) systems, numeracy, multiple modalities, and to link oracy to text using computerised devices. Despite this array of literacies, writing remains one of the least understood – yet increasingly important – skills…
Developing summary writing skills through translanguaging
Translanguaging, an umbrella term used to refer to pedagogical approaches that engage the learners’ home languages as a resource, is praised for positive outcomes when its techniques are employed in teaching and learning in multilingual settings. This article examines the effects of translanguaging on learners’ ability to reorganise texts after reading texts in isiXhosa as the learners’ home language, and English as their first additional languag…
Apresentação de dossiê
No contexto da pandemia da Covid-19, escancara-se a diversidade cultural e a desigualdade social presentes no Brasil, sobretudo, nas práticas educativas, em especial na educação linguística, que é o foco deste Dossiê. Desse modo, evidencia-se o valor do reconhecimento da multiculturalidade. Trata-se de uma construção histórica, fruto de um processo de luta e embate social, não sendo, portanto, um fenômeno natural, espontâneo, uma vez que represen…
The language enigma
Merging English Home Language and First Additional Language curricula
South Africa has a uniquely differentiated English curriculum in a bid to cater for diverse proficiency levels prevalent among its learner population. While this stride made sense in a population with one of the highest inequalities in the world, it is equally important to reflect on whether the differentiated systems do serve the purpose of equal access in relation to the quality of provision. Surprisingly, very little research has been carried …
The (re)making of an African language
It is a well-established fact that languages of the world have different typological parameters despite their universality in key structures. These different typologies predict various ways of knowing, teaching and assessing. Despite the plethora of knowledge systems available in linguistics and educational research worldwide, African languages of Bantu origin have been residually neglected and versioned from Germanic languages for curriculum dev…
Translanguaging Ubuntu
As práticas educacionais do Sul Global permanecem, em geral, monolíngues, apesar dos ricos repositórios de formas locais de conhecer e ser. A translanguaging como campo de estudo deu um passo adiante para decolonizar as salas de aula de línguas e oferecer agências aos professores e um acesso mais profundo ao conhecimento aos alunos. No entanto, as interpretações desse fenômeno ainda são linguísticas baseadas em programas tradicionais de educação …
Effects of Language Policies of Nigeria and South Africa on Linguistic Diversity and Classification of Indigenous Languages
This study investigated the effects of language policies implemented in Nigeria and South Africa on linguistic diversity and how these two nations categorized their indigenous languages. In this present study, qualitative research methodology was used, and a purposive sampling method was used to select Nigeria’s 2013 Language Policy from the National Policy of Education and South Africa’s 1996 Language in Education Policy. Thematic analysis was c…
Success Stories of Multilingual Literacy
In a progressively interrelated world, the advancement of strong multilingual literacy skills among learners is of great importance. This article showcases successful multilingual literacy initiatives, analyzing their implementation and impact. The study revealed a great positive influence on communities and individuals after the initiatives. The predominant aim is to give extra weight to the indispensable importance of appreciating and paying at…
Epistemologias e praxiologias decoloniais nos estudos de línguas/linguagens e na educação linguística
Translinguagem ubuntu e educação multilíngue no Sul Global
Entrevista
Educação linguística e cultural mediada por tecnologias digitais em um mundo multipolar contemporâneo
Nesta seção temática da revista Domínios da Linguagem recebemos artigos e relatos de pesquisas que tratam do tema da educação linguística e/ou cultural mediadas por tecnologias digitais em um mundo multipolar contemporâneo. O referido dossiê reúne um conjunto plural e articulado de pesquisas que investigam as relações entre linguagem, educação e tecnologias digitais em diferentes níveis de ensino, contextos institucionais e perspectivas teóricas.…
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