Publications

Publication details [#49384]

Land, Sandra and Zanele Buthelezi. 2004. UMKhize, local hero, framed: A picture story for beginner adult readers in south Africa. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 35 (2) : 428–444.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult | humor | image | reading | text

Language as a subject

English | Languages, South African, Indigenous | Zulu

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper focuses on a literacy fostering strategy used in 'Learn with Echo', a Zulu and English publication, addressing South African readers with very limited literacy skills: the weekly publication of a humorous dual language picture story based on a fictional local hero, a Zulu man called uMkhize.