Developing the academic literacy of isiXhosa-speaking learners in an Afrikaans-medium school in the Intermediate Phase
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2016
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University of Western Cape
Abstract
South Africa in its multilingual state presents many challenges for teachers to achieve the task of
developing learners? academic literacy. Many learners in South Africa either do not have the
privilege or access to mother tongue instruction. Thus, in some instances, teachers are faced with
the challenge of having to instruct a minority of isiXhosa speaking learners whose mother tongue
is different from the Language of Learning and Teaching (LoLT) of the school and the majority
of the class. There have been numerous studies that investigate what strategies teachers can use
when they share the MT of the learners, such as the use of code-switching This study looks at
teachers who are Afrikaans-speaking and teach in an Afrikaans-medium school, and how they
develop the academic literacy of a minority of isiXhosa-speaking learners in Grade 4.
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Magister Educationis - MEd (Language Education)