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Beschreibung
Using data from a long-term ethnographic study of English language classrooms in a South African township, this book highlights linguistic expertise in a setting where it is not usually expected or sought. Rather than being 'peripheral and unskilled', South African township teachers and learners emerge as skilled (re)languagers central to the workings of South African education, and to our understanding of how language classrooms work. This book foregrounds the heterogeneity, flexibility and creativity of day-to-day language practices that African urban spaces are known for, and conceptualises language teaching not as a progression from one fixed language to another, but as a circular sorting process between linguistic heterogeneity (languaging) and homogeneity (a standard language).
Using data from a long-term ethnographic study of English language classrooms in a South African township, this book highlights linguistic expertise in a setting where it is not usually expected or sought. Rather than being 'peripheral and unskilled', South African township teachers and learners emerge as skilled (re)languagers central to the workings of South African education, and to our understanding of how language classrooms work. This book foregrounds the heterogeneity, flexibility and creativity of day-to-day language practices that African urban spaces are known for, and conceptualises language teaching not as a progression from one fixed language to another, but as a circular sorting process between linguistic heterogeneity (languaging) and homogeneity (a standard language).
Über den Autor

Lara-Stephanie Krause is Assistant Professor in the Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University, Germany. Her research interests include fixity / fluidity of language in education, (trans)languaging, language and protest movements, actor-network theory, and science and technology studies.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781800412118
ISBN-10: 1800412118
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Krause-Alzaidi, Lara-Stephanie
Hersteller: Multilingual Matters
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Lara-Stephanie Krause-Alzaidi
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.12.2021
Gewicht: 0,386 kg
Artikel-ID: 120384480

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