Defying Monolingual Education: Alternative Bilingual Discourse Practices in Selected Coloured Schools in Cape Town

Autor/in	Banda, Felix
Titel	Defying Monolingual Education: Alternative Bilingual Discourse Practices in Selected Coloured Schools in Cape Town
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 31 (2010) 3, S.221-235 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
Schlagwörter	Municipalities; Multilingualism; Monolingualism; Foreign Countries; Bilingualism; Bilingual Teachers; Educational Policy; Language of Instruction; Classroom Communication; Interviews; Observation; Models; African Languages; Multiracial Persons; English (Second Language); Indo European Languages; South Africa (Cape Town) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Magistrat; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Ausland; Bilingualismus; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Klassengespräch; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Beobachtung; Analogiemodell; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Mischling; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Indoeuropäisch
Abstract	This paper explores how bilingual learners and teachers challenge the monolingual discourses prescribed in language education policy and models in pursuit of voice and agency in classroom interaction. Through an examination of observation, interview and classroom interaction data in selected coloured primary and secondary schools in Cape Town, the paper investigates the tension between bilingual discourses of learners and prescribed models of education that value monolingual discourses. This entails an evaluation of the suitability of dominant Western models and notions of multilingualism, which it is argued do not fit the multilingual contexts in Africa. The paper concludes that in the multilingual education contexts of Cape Town learning often takes place outside the official models and languages of education; hence the argument for multilingual education models in Cape Town and Africa, generally, that take into the account local linguistic diversity and community repertoires. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10