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OverviewUsing 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). Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lara-Stephanie Krause-AlzaidiPublisher: Multilingual Matters Imprint: Multilingual Matters Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.529kg ISBN: 9781800412125ISBN 10: 1800412126 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 20 December 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Relanguaging Language towards an Alternative Perspective Chapter 3. A Linguistic Ethnography for Seeing More Chapter 4. An Eagle Learning to Fly and an Analyst Learning to See Chapter 5. Complexities around Uing and Testing in Khayelitsha Chapter 6. Rewriting Nomolanguages Chapter 7. Conclusion: So What? Notes Appendices ReferencesReviewsLara Krause presents a startlingly innovative, deeply meditative, yet meticulously reasoned and entirely convincing, approach to educational languaging. Substantiating her exhaustive interrogation of prevailing hypotheses with a thoroughgoing analysis of what actually happens in a township classroom, Krause develops a bold new conceptual framework. * Tessa Dowling, University of Cape Town, South Africa * In this book Lara Krause provides evidence-based and nuanced analysis of English language classrooms in a township setting. Guided by comprehensive understanding of relevant research and theory, she meticulously develops and uses the lens of (re)languaging to foreground the tension between linguistic fluidity and fixity, heterogeneity and homogeneity in language classrooms. Clearly argued and compelling, this book provides new insights into the complex relationships between language curricula and policy in contexts of linguistic diversity. * Pinky Makoe, University of Johannesburg, South Africa * Lara Krause as elegantly as radically twists our perspective on language practices by heuristically setting the fluidity of language as norm and then rigorously following this intellectual project throughout her compelling analysis. Apart from giving novel insight into the didactics of teaching in English in a fluid setting, she also demonstrates how we can overcome the disciplinary constraints that keep haunting the field. * Rose Marie Beck, Leipzig University, Germany * Lara Krause presents a startlingly innovative, deeply meditative, yet meticulously reasoned and entirely convincing, approach to educational languaging. Substantiating her exhaustive interrogation of prevailing hypotheses with a thoroughgoing analysis of what actually happens in a township classroom, Krause develops a bold new conceptual framework. * Tessa Dowling, University of Cape Town, South Africa * Author InformationLara-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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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