Strategy to improve a conversational isiXhosa module: Insights gained from 'out-of-class' experiences of Foundation phase English/Afrikaans students

Curriculum renewal in South African teacher education programmes has been a subject of debate in recent years. At the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, the renewal of the BEd Foundation phase programme pointed to a need to strengthen the teaching of isiXhosa to English/Afrikaans-speaking stude...

Celý popis

Uloženo v:
Podrobná bibliografie
Vydáno v:South African Journal of African Languages Ročník 36; číslo 2; s. 133 - 140
Hlavní autor: Mayaba, NN
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Pretoria Routledge 09.12.2016
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Témata:
African languages
Afrikaans language
Classroom communication
Conversation
Curricula
Educational programs
Germanic languages
Language acquisition
Language teaching materials
Languages
Learning environment
Native language
Qualitative research
Renewal
Sociocultural factors
South African English
Student teacher relationship
Student teachers
Students
Teacher education
Teachers
Teaching
Tutoring
Xhosa language
ISSN:0257-2117, 2305-1159
On-line přístup:Získat plný text
Tagy: Přidat tag
Žádné tagy, Buďte první, kdo vytvoří štítek k tomuto záznamu!
Abstract Curriculum renewal in South African teacher education programmes has been a subject of debate in recent years. At the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, the renewal of the BEd Foundation phase programme pointed to a need to strengthen the teaching of isiXhosa to English/Afrikaans-speaking students in order to prepare them more effectively for their teaching tasks in multilingual contexts. In an attempt to enhance the students' acquisition of isiXhosa, lecturers required them to engage in out-of-class conversations with home language speakers of isiXhosa and to reflect on their experiences. A sociocultural perspective to second language acquisition and learning was used as a framework to understand their reflections. Qualitative analysis of written and oral reflections from six (n = 6) Foundation phase student teachers revealed how this activity motivated them to learn isiXhosa. Furthermore, they recognised the role of tutors in their interactions with isiXhosa speakers, and shared broader learning about their experiences. Insights drawn from findings indicate a need to create an interactive learning environment which allows for the use of multilingual strategies when teaching isiXhosa. This study has implications for teacher educators who teach African languages to non-mother tongue speakers of these languages and who intend to reconceptualise their conversational modules.
AbstractList Curriculum renewal in South African teacher education programmes has been a subject of debate in recent years. At the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, the renewal of the BEd Foundation phase programme pointed to a need to strengthen the teaching of isiXhosa to English/Afrikaans-speaking students in order to prepare them more effectively for their teaching tasks in multilingual contexts. In an attempt to enhance the students' acquisition of isiXhosa, lecturers required them to engage in out-of-class conversations with home language speakers of isiXhosa and to reflect on their experiences. A sociocultural perspective to second language acquisition and learning was used as a framework to understand their reflections. Qualitative analysis of written and oral reflections from six (n = 6) Foundation phase student teachers revealed how this activity motivated them to learn isiXhosa. Furthermore, they recognised the role of tutors in their interactions with isiXhosa speakers, and shared broader learning about their experiences. Insights drawn from findings indicate a need to create an interactive learning environment which allows for the use of multilingual strategies when teaching isiXhosa. This study has implications for teacher educators who teach African languages to non-mother tongue speakers of these languages and who intend to reconceptualise their conversational modules.
Author Mayaba, NN
Author_xml – sequence: 1
  givenname: NN
  surname: Mayaba
  fullname: Mayaba, NN
  email: Nokhanyo.mayaba@nmmu.ac.za
  organization: Faculty of Education, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
BookMark eNp9kc1uEzEUhS1UJNLCIyBZYtHVpLbn16yoqhYqVeoCkNhZN_Z14jJjB19PS96DByZpypbV2XznSEffKTuJKSJj76VYSjGIC6HaXknZL5WQ3VKqVgnRvWILVYu2krLVJ2xxYKoD9IadEj0IIWs1yAX787VkKLje8ZJ4mLY5PSIHblN8xExQQoow8kDhxyYR8Cm5ecSP_DZSWG8K8TWEiI77nCZ-nuZSJV_ZEYjOOf7eYg4YLRJPnt-kObrnQb7dACG_jusx0Obi0ufwEyASpzI7jIXestceRsJ3L3nGvt9cf7v6Ut3df769uryrrBq6UjVCraxuOwtd3_StQwva48pasWqd9uAHVN4Pnba6BtU3q76DvmnEoLVzg1P1Gftw3N3f_jUjFfOQ5rw_TEYOrah73XTNnmqPlM2JKKM32xwmyDsjhTkIMP8EmIMA8yJg3_t07IXoU57gKeXRmQK7MWWfIdpApv7_xF9OcpHj
Cites_doi 10.2167/illt040.0
10.33178/scenario.8.2.3
10.1080/13670050802153137
10.1111/1540-4781.00161
10.4102/sajce.v4i3.230
10.1016/j.langsci.2010.09.003
10.1111/j.1540-4781.2011.01207.x
10.1111/1540-4781.00136
10.1002/9781118271643
10.1111/j.1540-4781.2005.00313.x
10.1017/S1366728912000648
10.1017/S0272263106060037
10.1177/1362168813482933
10.1177/0022487106296219
10.1080/09500782.2012.669767
10.5785/28-1-122
10.1111/j.1540-4781.2009.00986.x
10.4102/sajce.v4i3.227
10.5785/31-1-581
10.1177/0022487106296217
10.1080/14623943.2011.606693
10.1111/1540-4781.00194
ContentType Journal Article
Copyright 2016 NISC (Pty) Ltd 2016
2016 NISC (Pty) Ltd
Copyright_xml – notice: 2016 NISC (Pty) Ltd 2016
– notice: 2016 NISC (Pty) Ltd
DBID AAYXX
CITATION
7T9
DOI 10.1080/02572117.2016.1252006
DatabaseName CrossRef
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
DatabaseTitle CrossRef
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
DatabaseTitleList
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
DeliveryMethod fulltext_linktorsrc
Discipline Languages & Literatures
EISSN 2305-1159
EndPage 140
ExternalDocumentID 10_1080_02572117_2016_1252006
1252006
Genre Article
GroupedDBID ACGFO
ALMA_UNASSIGNED_HOLDINGS
AAYXX
CITATION
7T9
ID FETCH-LOGICAL-c286t-402bc956ca67475deca9febcc0b5d9faf8e2ff869c93a274b76a7440899dd8d23
IEDL.DBID TFW
ISICitedReferencesCount 4
ISICitedReferencesURI http://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=Summon&SrcAuth=ProQuest&DestLinkType=CitingArticles&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=000391362600001&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcvtisr.summon.serialssolutions.com%2F%23%21%2Fsearch%3Fho%3Df%26include.ft.matches%3Dt%26l%3Dnull%26q%3D
ISSN 0257-2117
IngestDate Mon Nov 10 01:03:44 EST 2025
Sat Nov 29 01:39:19 EST 2025
Mon Oct 20 23:40:06 EDT 2025
IsPeerReviewed true
IsScholarly true
Issue 2
Language English
LinkModel DirectLink
MergedId FETCHMERGED-LOGICAL-c286t-402bc956ca67475deca9febcc0b5d9faf8e2ff869c93a274b76a7440899dd8d23
Notes ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 14
PQID 1850379464
PQPubID 2038132
PageCount 8
ParticipantIDs informaworld_taylorfrancis_310_1080_02572117_2016_1252006
proquest_journals_1850379464
crossref_primary_10_1080_02572117_2016_1252006
PublicationCentury 2000
PublicationDate 12/9/2016
PublicationDateYYYYMMDD 2016-12-09
PublicationDate_xml – month: 12
  year: 2016
  text: 12/9/2016
  day: 09
PublicationDecade 2010
PublicationPlace Pretoria
PublicationPlace_xml – name: Pretoria
PublicationTitle South African Journal of African Languages
PublicationYear 2016
Publisher Routledge
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publisher_xml – name: Routledge
– name: Taylor & Francis Ltd
References Department of Education (CIT0008) 2014
CIT0030
CIT0010
Ohta AS. (CIT0028) 1995; 6
Boakye N. (CIT0001) 2007; 23
CIT0012
CIT0033
Lee SM. (CIT0018) 2015; 1
Guba E (CIT0013) 1994
CIT0014
CIT0035
CIT0016
CIT0015
CIT0037
CIT0017
CIT0039
CIT0019
Department of Education (CIT0007) 2011
CIT0041
CIT0040
CIT0021
Lunenburg FC. (CIT0023) 2010; 12
CIT0020
CIT0022
Surkamp C. (CIT0032) 2014; 8
Nomlomo V. (CIT0027) 2010; 26
Tognini R (CIT0034) 2012; 24
Cummins J. (CIT0006) 2007; 10
CIT0002
Willis D (CIT0038) 2007
CIT0004
Creswell JW. (CIT0005) 2009
Martin J (CIT0025) 2000
CIT0026
Vygotsky LS. (CIT0036) 1978
Shulman L. (CIT0031) 2004
CIT0009
Evans R. (CIT0011) 2011; 45
References_xml – ident: CIT0020
  doi: 10.2167/illt040.0
– volume: 8
  start-page: 28
  year: 2014
  ident: CIT0032
  publication-title: Scenario
  doi: 10.33178/scenario.8.2.3
– ident: CIT0030
  doi: 10.1080/13670050802153137
– ident: CIT0012
  doi: 10.1111/1540-4781.00161
– volume-title: The wisdom of practice: Essays on teaching, learning, and learning to teach.
  year: 2004
  ident: CIT0031
– ident: CIT0041
  doi: 10.4102/sajce.v4i3.230
– volume-title: Doing task-based teaching.
  year: 2007
  ident: CIT0038
– volume-title: Incremental introduction of African languages
  year: 2014
  ident: CIT0008
– ident: CIT0022
  doi: 10.1016/j.langsci.2010.09.003
– ident: CIT0002
  doi: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2011.01207.x
– ident: CIT0039
  doi: 10.1111/1540-4781.00136
– ident: CIT0010
  doi: 10.1002/9781118271643
– ident: CIT0033
  doi: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2005.00313.x
– volume-title: Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes
  year: 1978
  ident: CIT0036
– ident: CIT0016
  doi: 10.1017/S1366728912000648
– ident: CIT0017
  doi: 10.1017/S0272263106060037
– ident: CIT0035
  doi: 10.1177/1362168813482933
– ident: CIT0040
  doi: 10.1177/0022487106296219
– volume: 23
  start-page: 1
  year: 2007
  ident: CIT0001
  publication-title: Per Linguam
– volume-title: Intercultural communication in contexts
  year: 2000
  ident: CIT0025
– volume-title: Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approach
  year: 2009
  ident: CIT0005
– ident: CIT0037
  doi: 10.1080/09500782.2012.669767
– volume-title: National Qualifications Framework Act (67/2008): Policy on the Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education
  year: 2011
  ident: CIT0007
– ident: CIT0015
  doi: 10.5785/28-1-122
– ident: CIT0004
  doi: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2009.00986.x
– ident: CIT0009
  doi: 10.4102/sajce.v4i3.227
– volume: 10
  start-page: 221
  year: 2007
  ident: CIT0006
  publication-title: Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics
– volume: 45
  start-page: 69
  year: 2011
  ident: CIT0011
  publication-title: Journal of Language Teaching
– ident: CIT0026
  doi: 10.5785/31-1-581
– ident: CIT0021
  doi: 10.1177/0022487106296217
– ident: CIT0014
  doi: 10.1080/14623943.2011.606693
– volume: 1
  start-page: 28
  year: 2015
  ident: CIT0018
  publication-title: Space: Student perspectives About Civic Engagement
– volume: 26
  start-page: 50
  year: 2010
  ident: CIT0027
  publication-title: Per Linguam
– volume: 12
  start-page: 1
  year: 2010
  ident: CIT0023
  publication-title: International Journal of Scholarly Academic Intellectual Diversity
– start-page: 105
  volume-title: Handbook of qualitative research
  year: 1994
  ident: CIT0013
– ident: CIT0019
  doi: 10.1111/1540-4781.00194
– volume: 24
  start-page: 53
  year: 2012
  ident: CIT0034
  publication-title: Utrecht Studies in Language and Communication
– volume: 6
  start-page: 93
  year: 1995
  ident: CIT0028
  publication-title: Issues in Applied Linguistics
SSID ssj0013281
ssj0069393
Score 2.0017223
Snippet Curriculum renewal in South African teacher education programmes has been a subject of debate in recent years. At the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University,...
SourceID proquest
crossref
informaworld
SourceType Aggregation Database
Index Database
Publisher
StartPage 133
SubjectTerms African languages
Afrikaans language
Classroom communication
Conversation
Curricula
Educational programs
Germanic languages
Language acquisition
Language teaching materials
Languages
Learning environment
Native language
Qualitative research
Renewal
Sociocultural factors
South African English
Student teacher relationship
Student teachers
Students
Teacher education
Teachers
Teaching
Tutoring
Xhosa language
Title Strategy to improve a conversational isiXhosa module: Insights gained from 'out-of-class' experiences of Foundation phase English/Afrikaans students
URI https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02572117.2016.1252006
https://www.proquest.com/docview/1850379464
Volume 36
WOSCitedRecordID wos000391362600001&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcvtisr.summon.serialssolutions.com%2F%23%21%2Fsearch%3Fho%3Df%26include.ft.matches%3Dt%26l%3Dnull%26q%3D
hasFullText 1
inHoldings 1
isFullTextHit
isPrint
journalDatabaseRights – providerCode: PRVAWR
  databaseName: Taylor & Francis Journals Complete
  customDbUrl:
  eissn: 2305-1159
  dateEnd: 99991231
  omitProxy: false
  ssIdentifier: ssj0013281
  issn: 0257-2117
  databaseCode: TFW
  dateStart: 19810101
  isFulltext: true
  titleUrlDefault: https://www.tandfonline.com
  providerName: Taylor & Francis
link http://cvtisr.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwrV3JTsMwELUQ4sCFfV80BwQnA6nbJOaGEBVIVcWhQG-RV6iABtUpEv_BBzNOnAJCiAMccxgr8TIzb_L8hpA9TNhSGSUR1ZgrUy9ARzk6RdpiUqHLNKkpWb43naTbTft9fhXYhC7QKj2GtpVQROmr_eEW0tWMuCMM0x63JJ6YFR9ihA6i2xj6fQ-DXvv203-EdML4iDmrNHjRnHr7-kLPT0N-CVVfhEy_Oe4yGrXn_-E7FshcSEXhtNo7i2TKDJfIWicUMB3sQ2eiueyWyVsQsn2FIodBWYswIKCkrY9cqCnCwA3697kT8JTr8aM5gcuh8_jfwZ3AN9Tg77PAQT4uaG6p8rn7AZiJ3rKD3MJHqyd4vscoC-Gu8ZFvavQgMLiCqyQ53Qq5bp_3zi5o6OlAVSONCw9XpUJMpkSMQKaljRLcGqnUsWxpboVNTcPaNOaKM4GIWSax8BqGCAu1TnWDrZLpYT406wQSzRmziRSKi2YSo1EkW4ZZHpmGioTaIIf18mXPlXRHFtWKqGHqMz_1WZj6DcI_L3JWlDUTWzU4ydgvttv1jsiCF3AZ5kLHzCv4Nzf_MPQWmfWPJYeGb5PpYjQ2O2RGvRQDN9ot9_s7zg_9Pw
linkProvider Taylor & Francis
linkToHtml http://cvtisr.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwrV1Lb9QwELZQiwQXHgVKaYE5VPTktlk3D3NDiFUr0j1tYW-W40e7KmyqdRaJ_9Ef3JnEWbZCFYdyjmwlzmS-mck33zC2iwFbUSV5wi3GypwE6LhEp8hTURl0ma5wLcv3W5mPRsVkIld7YYhWSTm074QiWl9NHzcVo3tK3AHiNCUuOTGzsn2E6E51ez1FrCUrHw-_r_xJKJacj0yKToUX13PaoG_puWvPW2B1S8r0L9fd4tHw6f94kmfsSYxG4VNnPs_ZAzfbYJtlrGEG-ADlUnY5vGDXUcv2NzQ1TNtyhAMNLXN9HmJZEaZhOrmog4aftV38cB_hZBaoBBDgXOMtWqCWFtirFw2vPTcUvu-BW0ouB6g9_Jn2BFcXCLQQ240PaK7RpUZ8hdCpcoaX7Gz4Zfz5mMexDtwMiqyhjLUymJYZnWEuk1pntPSuMuawSq302hdu4H2RSSOFxqS5yjNNMoaYGVpb2IF4xdZm9cy9ZpBbKYTPK22kPsozXJRUqRNeJm5gEm222H7__tRVp96hkl4UNR69oqNX8ei3mFx9y6ppyya-m3GixD_W7vQmoaIjCArDoUNBIv5Hb-6x9Xv26Hh8WqryZPR1mz2mSy2lRu6wtWa-cG_ZQ_OrmYb5u9b4bwDRrgF5
linkToPdf http://cvtisr.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwrV1LTxsxELZQiqpeePVBIKVzQOVkko2T3TU31DYCNYo4QJub5fWjiVqyUbxB6v_gBzPe9YagquLQnle2du3xzHyzn78h5BgTtjSLkohqzJWpF6CjHJ0i7bNMocs0qSlZvt-GyWiUjsf8KrAJXaBVegxtK6GI0lf7wz3XtmbEtTFMe9ySeGJWfIoRuhLdfoGpc-zx1_Xg-9qPhHRF-Yg5q0R4cTz1E9Q3ev4255NY9UTJ9A_PXYajwfZ_-JAdshVyUTivjGeXbJjZHnk3DBVMBx9huBJddq_JfVCy_Q1FDtOyGGFAQslbX7hQVISpm44nuZNwm-vlL3MGlzPnCwAOfkh8Qw3-Qguc5MuC5pYqn7yfgFkJLjvILTz2eoL5BMMshMvGbd_V6KfE6Aqu0uR0b8jN4Mv1pwsamjpQ1U3jwuPVTCEoUzJGJNPXRkluTaZUJ-trbqVNTdfaNOaKM4mQOUti6UUMERdqneoue0sas3xm9gkkmjNmk0wqLntJjIOirG-Y5ZHpqkiqJjmtt0_MK-0OEdWSqGHphV96EZa-Sfj6JouiLJrYqsOJYM-MbdUWIYIbcAKToQ7zEv69g3-Y-gN5efV5IIaXo6-H5JV_UvJpeIs0isXSvCeb6q6YusVRafoPyWsAKg
openUrl ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Strategy+to+improve+a+conversational+isiXhosa+module%3A+Insights+gained+from+%27out-of-class%27+experiences+of+Foundation+phase+English%2FAfrikaans+students&rft.jtitle=Suid-Afrikaanse+Tydskrif+vir+Afrikatale+%3A+Tydskrif+van+die+Afrikatale-Vereniging+van+Suider-Afrika+%28AVSA%29+%3D+South+African+Journal+of+African+Languages+%3A+Journal+of+the+African+Language+Association+of+Southern+Africa+%28ALASA%29&rft.au=Mayaba%2C+NN&rft.date=2016-12-09&rft.pub=Taylor+%26+Francis+Ltd&rft.issn=0257-2117&rft.eissn=2305-1159&rft.volume=36&rft.issue=2&rft.spage=133&rft_id=info:doi/10.1080%2F02572117.2016.1252006&rft.externalDBID=NO_FULL_TEXT
thumbnail_l http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/lc.gif&issn=0257-2117&client=summon
thumbnail_m http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/mc.gif&issn=0257-2117&client=summon
thumbnail_s http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/sc.gif&issn=0257-2117&client=summon