Language discourses and identity construction in a multilingual South African primary school

English Academy Review

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 55-70

  Makoe, Pinky ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classroom interaction; Discourses; Early childhood education; Identity; Medium of instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349945941     PISSN: 10131752     EISSN: 17535360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10131750701452303     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Auerbach, E., 1995. “ The politics of the ESL classroom: Issues of power in pedagogical choices ”. In Power and inequality in language education, Edited by: Tollefson, J., 9–33. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2. Ballenger, C., 1997. Social identities, moral narratives, scientific argumentation: Science talk in a bilingual classroom. Language and Education, 11 (1): 1–14.
3. Ball, S., 1990. “ Introducing monsieur Foucault ”. In Foucault and education: Disciplines and knowledge, Edited by: Ball, S. J., 1–8. London: Routledge.
4. Blommaert, J., 2005. Discourse. A Critical introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
5. Bourne, J., 2001. Discourses and identities in a multilingual primary classroom. Oxford Review of Education, 27 (1): 103–114.
6. Cazden, C., 1988. Classroom discourse. The language of teaching and learning, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
7. Christie, P., 1991. The right to learn. The struggle for education in South Africa, Johannesburg: Raven Press.
8. Corson, D., 1998. Changing education for diversity, Philadelphia: Open University Press.
9. Department of Education. 1997. Language in education policy, Pretoria: Department of Education.
10. Dagenais, D., Day, E., and Toohey, K., 2006. A multilingual child's literacy practices and contrasting identities in the figured worlds of French immersion classrooms. The International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 9 (2): 205–218.
11. Fairclough, N., 1995. Critical discourse analysis: The critical study of language, New York: Longman.
12. Foucault, M., 1972. Power/knowledge: Selected interviews and other writings, New York: Pantheon Books.
13. Foucault, M., 1984. “ The order of discourse ”. In In Language and politics, Edited by: Shapiro, M., 108–138. New York: New York University Press.
14. Gee, J. P., 1996. Social linguistics and literacies: Ideology in discourse, 2, London: Taylor and Francis.
15. Gee, J. P., 1999. An introduction to discourse analysis. Theory and method, New York and London: Routledge.
16. Gee, J. P., 2006. An introduction to discourse analysis. Theory and method, 2nd, New York and London: Routledge.
17. Granville, S., Janks, H., Mphahlele, M., Reed, Y., Watson, P., Joseph, M., and Ramani, E., 1998. English with or without g(u)ilt: A position paper on language in education policy for South Africa. Language and Education, 12 (4): 254–272.
18. Hall, J. K., 2002. Teaching and researching language and culture, London: Longman.
19. Heath, S. B., 1983. Ways with words, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
20. Hull, G., and Rose, M., 1989. Rethinking remediation: Towards a social cognitive understanding of problematic reading and writing. Written Communication, 6: 139–154.
21. Kamwangamalu, N., 2003. Social change and language shift: South Africa. Review of Applied Linguistics, 23: 225–242.
22. Kamwangamalu, N., 2004. The language policy/language economics interface and mother-tongue education in post-apartheid South Africa. Language Problems and Language Planning, 28 (2): 134–146.
23. Kress, G., 1989. Linguistic processes in socio-cultural practice, Victoria, Australia: Deakin University Press.
24. McDermott, R., 1993. “ The acquisition of a child by a learning disability ”. In Understanding practice: perspectives on activity and context, Edited by: Chaiklin, S., and Lave, J., 269–305. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
25. McKay, S., and Wong, S-L. C., 1996. Multiples discourses, multiple identities: investment and agency in second language learning among Chinese adolescent immigrant students. Harvard Educational Review, 66: 577–606.
26. Mda, T. V., 2000. “ Language in education ”. In Critical issues in South African education after 1994, Edited by: Mda, T., and Mothata, S., 155–172. Johannesburg: Juta.
27. Michaels, S., 1984. Listening and responding: Hearing the logic in children's classroom narratives. Theory into practice, 23 (3): 218–224.
28. National Education Coordinating Committee (NECC). 1990. “ Resource pack materials on people's education for people's power ”. Johannesburg Unpublished
29. Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., and Armstrong de Almeida, A., 2006. Language discourses and ideologies at the heart of early childhood education. The International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 9 (3): 310–341.
30. Pennycook, A., 1994. The cultural politics of English as an international language, London: Longman.
31. Pennycook, A., 2000. “ The social politics and cultural politics of language classrooms ”. In The Sociopolitics of English language teaching, Edited by: Hall, J. K., and Eggington, W. G., 89–103. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
32. Probyn, M. J., Murray, S., Botha, L., Botya, M., Brooks, P., and Westphal, V., 2002. Minding the gaps - an investigation into language policy and practice in four Eastern Cape districts. Perspectives in Education, 20 (1): 29–46.
33. Sheridan, A., 1980. Michael Foucault: The will to truth, London and New York: Tavistock Publications.
34. Weedon, C., 1987. Feminist practice and poststructuralist theory, London: Blackwells.
35. Wodak, R., 2000. “ Recontextualisation and the transformation of meanings: A critical discourse analysis of decision making in EU meetings about employment policies ”. In Discourse and social life, Edited by: Sarangi, S., and Coulthard, M., 185–206. Harlow: Longman.