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What counts as English? : a discursive investigation between two English language Cape Town primary school grade six classrooms
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-67).
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| author | Pietersen, Nicola Aideen |
| author2 | Prinsloo, Mastin |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11156 What counts as English? : a discursive investigation between two English language Cape Town primary school grade six classrooms Pietersen, Nicola Aideen Prinsloo, Mastin Applied Language Studies Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-67). What counts as English depends on the circumstances and where and how it is employed. In classrooms this socio-cultural artefact is constructed through practices in particular ways. Language and literacy practices in schools produce and re-produce certain things that count. In this dissertation I asked what counts as English and what practices were employed in varying contexts to validate what counted in a greater context. I was concerned to find out whether and how English-language resources in different contexts or did not contribute to enhancing students’ (social and economic) mobility. This ethnographically-based study focused on two Grade Six classes in State run Primary schools in Cape Town, one of them being a well-resourced, monolingual, English classroom and school and the other being a poorly-resourced, multilingual, English as an Additional language classroom and school. 2015-01-03T18:08:57Z 2015-01-03T18:08:57Z 2011 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11156 eng application/pdf Centre for Applied Language and Literacy Studies and Services in Africa Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Applied Language Studies Pietersen, Nicola Aideen What counts as English? : a discursive investigation between two English language Cape Town primary school grade six classrooms |
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| title | What counts as English? : a discursive investigation between two English language Cape Town primary school grade six classrooms |
| title_full | What counts as English? : a discursive investigation between two English language Cape Town primary school grade six classrooms |
| title_fullStr | What counts as English? : a discursive investigation between two English language Cape Town primary school grade six classrooms |
| title_full_unstemmed | What counts as English? : a discursive investigation between two English language Cape Town primary school grade six classrooms |
| title_short | What counts as English? : a discursive investigation between two English language Cape Town primary school grade six classrooms |
| title_sort | what counts as english a discursive investigation between two english language cape town primary school grade six classrooms |
| topic | Applied Language Studies |
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