Add to ORKGIn this chapter, the ESL approaches adopted by seven different literacy organisations in South Africa are described and analysed. The approaches are identified in relation to developments in the field of applied linguistics and language teaching. The methods include formalist, functional/communicative approach, competency-based approach, natural growth approach, task-based process approach, popular education and ESL approach. The chapter concludes with principles for adult, popular second language learning curriculum and training
D.Phil.With the demise of apartheid and the ushering in of a new political dispensation, many change...
The dismantling of apartheid laws, the all-race elections of 1994, and a new Constitution signal opp...
The abolishment of apartheid in the early 1990s has led to a consistent influx of black learners fro...
South Africa attained independence twenty years ago in 1994 but the effects of the previous aparthei...
Despite South Africa’s constitutional commitment to multilingualism, literacy in English is importan...
Despite South Africa’s constitutional commitment to multilingualism, literacy in English is importan...
The paper utilises the World Englishes paradigm to explore the issue of language proficiency: what t...
The maxim that 'Languages develop through use, particularly in high domains such as education a...
The purpose of this study was to explore the challenges that second language (L2) speakers of Englis...
This paper interrogates the sorry state of switching from mother tongue instruction to English mediu...
My dissertation seeks to problematize widespread assumptions about language ownership in the context...
Communicative Language Teaching, an approach to language teaching currently widely prescribed, has b...
The South African Language-in-Education Policy (LiEP) states that mother tongue should be the prefer...
English is perceived as the language of the powerful elite as well as a tool of oppression and dehum...
D.Phil.With the demise of apartheid and the ushering in of a new political dispensation, many change...
D.Phil.With the demise of apartheid and the ushering in of a new political dispensation, many change...
The dismantling of apartheid laws, the all-race elections of 1994, and a new Constitution signal opp...
The abolishment of apartheid in the early 1990s has led to a consistent influx of black learners fro...
South Africa attained independence twenty years ago in 1994 but the effects of the previous aparthei...
Despite South Africa’s constitutional commitment to multilingualism, literacy in English is importan...
Despite South Africa’s constitutional commitment to multilingualism, literacy in English is importan...
The paper utilises the World Englishes paradigm to explore the issue of language proficiency: what t...
The maxim that 'Languages develop through use, particularly in high domains such as education a...
The purpose of this study was to explore the challenges that second language (L2) speakers of Englis...
This paper interrogates the sorry state of switching from mother tongue instruction to English mediu...
My dissertation seeks to problematize widespread assumptions about language ownership in the context...
Communicative Language Teaching, an approach to language teaching currently widely prescribed, has b...
The South African Language-in-Education Policy (LiEP) states that mother tongue should be the prefer...
English is perceived as the language of the powerful elite as well as a tool of oppression and dehum...
D.Phil.With the demise of apartheid and the ushering in of a new political dispensation, many change...
D.Phil.With the demise of apartheid and the ushering in of a new political dispensation, many change...
The dismantling of apartheid laws, the all-race elections of 1994, and a new Constitution signal opp...
The abolishment of apartheid in the early 1990s has led to a consistent influx of black learners fro...