Strategically positioning African languages in the development of students’ academic literacies
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| ID | 21490979 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Hloniphani Ndebele (0000-0002-1063-1944, University of the Free State, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2024 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 214-222 |
| Data de publicação | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | South African Journal of African Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0257-2117 • E-ISSN: 2305-1159 |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02572117.2024.2385260 |
| OpenAlex | W4404084134 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 45 |
Concerns are frequently raised about most students’ ability to handle academic discourse in the dominant language of teaching and learning, namely English. This is arguably a result of the fact that the majority of first-year students entering universities are largely African language speakers. However, literature on academic literacies shows that while the language issue is critical, there is also a need for students to be initiated into their academic disciplines to appropriate disciplinary conventions and knowledge. This article explores the role of African languages in the development of students’ academic literacies in South African higher education. The article argues that African languages have the potential for individual meaning and academic knowledge construction in higher education. The article posits that the academic literacies model is employed in advancing the view that literacy is a set of social practices that deal with the construction of meaning from the perspective of student identities, power and relationships in institutional discourse. Consequently, it is important for institutions of higher learning to reconsider the role of African languages in the curriculum and traditional pedagogical practices to facilitate effective academic literacy development
Languages of Africa · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Sociology · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching
Language Planning
“Multiliteracies”
Students Writing in the University
The Intellectualization of African Languages through Terminology and Lexicography
Decolonisation of higher education
Translanguaging as an approach to address language inequality in South African higher education
Academic literacy and the decontextualised learner
The Multiliteracies Learning Environment as Decolonial Nexus
Epistemological access through lecture materials in multiple modes and language varieties
Language of instruction in Tanzania and South Africa
Learning through the medium of English in multilingual South Africa
It's easy to learn when you using your home language but with English you need to start learning language before you get to the concept’
Acknowledging the affective in higher education
Multilingualism and (bi)literacy development for epistemological access
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa
Student writing in higher education
Pedagogies for diversity
Community elders' narrative accounts of ubuntu translanguaging
Embedding academic literacies in university programme curricula
Situated Learning
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| Altamente citado | Não |