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Publication details [#52235]

Koch, Elize, John Landon, MJ Jackson and Cordelia Foli. 2009. First brushstrokes: initial comparative results on the Additive Bilingual Education Project (ABLE). Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 27 (1) : 93–111.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic world | bilingual education | cognitive development | education | language proficiency

Language as a subject

English | isiXhosa

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper explores the long term benefits -(bi/multi language proficiency, cognitive development and academic achievement- of an additive model of curriculum delivery in South Africa, focusing on the Additive Bilingual Education (ABLE) Project, which started in 2003 at a school of predominantly first language isiXhosa speakers in the rural Eastern Cape.