- Title
- Development of tourism diploma in IsiXhosa-speaking students' academic literacies : a multilingual intervention
- Creator
- Batyi, Thokozile Thelma
- Subject
- Education, Bilingual -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Education -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Multilingual communication -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Date Issued
- 2014
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Doctoral
- Type
- PhD
- Identifier
- vital:8369
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020194
- Description
- In this study, it is argued that a bi/multilingual instruction is extremely beneficial for bi/multilingual students in higher education in South Africa. Since the adoption of democracy in 1994, cultural and linguistic diversity has become the norm in classrooms at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth. The testing of bi/multilingual strategies in this study (i.e. translation and development of multilingual glossaries; code-switching by tutor and students during teaching and learning; code-meshing by students online; and reading, speaking and writing bilingually), is an attempt to pedagogically adapt the curriculum to students’ needs. The data was collected from students in their Tourism Communication tutorial. The study was conducted in order to demonstrate that students benefit from bilingual pedagogies, which mobilise isiXhosa and English as languages of learning. Data was collected from tests, a questionnaire and interview, summaries, online discussions, written assignments and reflective journals in order to determine to what extent students’ performance was enhanced by bilingual tuition.
- Format
- xiii, 359 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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