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    Investigating Kaaps multimodal literacy interactions at a township primary school in Cape Town, South Africa.
    (University of the Western Cape, 2024) Williams, Veronique Sasha
    This study explores learners’ use of Kaaps multimodal resources in the classroom. This investigation draws on the work of Kaaps researchers who have advocated for the inclusion of this language in the primary school curriculum and the requirements needed to teach Kaaps effectively to Kaaps-speaking learners. With the development of the first Kaaps dictionary, it has become important to prepare instruction and curriculum content for Kaaps-speaking learners. This study proposed a qualitative investigation of multimodal Kaaps reading and writing practices of Kaaps-speaking learners in a primary school classroom. The methods used to collected interactional data through adio recordings, participant-observation and fieldwork reflections. Multimodal materials were translated from Standard English into Kaaps and used to gather feedback from learners in a focus group setting to explore the potential use of multimodal Kaaps literacies in multilingual classrooms. By applying the multimodal literacy framework developed by Walsh (2010), this study analysed how Kaaps-speaking learners responded to multimodal learning materials, by drawing on their linguistic repertoires, and engaging in translanguaging practices during the tasks. The conclusions of the findings follow that there is a greater need and urgency to transform the basic education system to include learners in the curriculum.