What are the factors influencing the relationship between school language policy and the literacy proficiency of learners at Grade 7 level?
By: Trevor da Rocha
Series: PRAESA occasional papers -- no. 31; PRAESA occasional papers -- no. 31.
Publisher: PRAESA
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9781919948485
Subjects: Language and education; Native language and education; Bilingual Education; Afrikaner students; Education; Afrikaans language; Language policy
Description: "In this case study, Trevor da Rocha investigates the factors that influence the language and literacy proficiency of learners at Grade 7 level in a Cape Flats school. Key factors identified in the study include the language policy of the school, the language awareness of the teachers, the teachers' interpretation of the school's language policy, and the role of language attitudes in gaining literacy proficiency. Framed within a qualitative research paradigm, the researcher as participant-observer finds evidence of the ongoing shift from Afrikaans to English on the Cape Flats, and of the persistence of the stigma of Kaapse Afrikaans amongst its speakers"--P. 4 of cover.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (master's)--University of Cape Town, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-90).

Also available via the Internet.

In English with abstract also in Afrikaans and Xhosa.