Producing and sharing ICT-based knowledge through English and African languages at a South African university

Terzoli, Alfredo; Dalvit, Lorenzo; Murray, Sarah; Mini, Buyiswa; Zhao, Xiaogeng

Title: Producing and sharing ICT-based knowledge through English and African languages at a South African university
Creator: Terzoli, Alfredo
Creator: Dalvit, Lorenzo
Creator: Murray, Sarah
Creator: Mini, Buyiswa
Creator: Zhao, Xiaogeng
Date Issued: 2005
Date: 2005
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428531
Identifier: vital:72518
Identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC37193
Description: This article describes an intervention aimed at providing increased ac-cess to the study of information and communication technology (ICT) and computer literacy in Higher Education in South Africa. Our focus group is speakers of an African language from a previously disadvan-taged background in the extended studies programme at Rhodes Uni-versity. Preliminary investigation suggests that such students have dif-ficulties becoming computer literate partly because of their lack of Eng-lish proficiency. This might prevent them from furthering their studies of Computer Science (CS) up to the postgraduate level. Shifting away from the dominant approach to academic support in extended studies programmes in South Africa, in our research we focus primarily on the lexical rather than the discourse level. With the help of a web-based application, students collaboratively produce and share additional mate-rial in both English and the African languages. This allows them to inte-grate new concepts and knowledge about computers into their existing knowledge structures. With our intervention, we hope to improve the students' participation in the production and sharing of knowledge in the field of ICT.
Format: 13 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: South African Journal of Higher Education
Relation: Siebörger, I. and Terzoli, A., 2007, September. Field testing the Alvarion BreezeMAX as a last mile access technology. In 10th Annual Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC)
Relation: South African Journal of Higher Education volume 19 number 1486 1 1498 2005 1753-5913
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