Full Description
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).
Contents
Chapter 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
References
