Relanguaging Language from a South African Township School

by Lara-Stephanie Krause-Alzaidi

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series New Perspectives on Language and Education

ISBN-10 1800412126

ISBN-13 9781800412125

Publisher Multilingual Matters

Imprint Multilingual Matters

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 20th, 2021

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 529 grams

Dimensions 23.40 x 15.60 x 1.70 cms

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Using data from a long-term ethnographic study of English language classrooms in a South African township, this book 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).

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