Publications

Publication details [#58921]

Mgqwashu, Emmanuel Mfanafuthi. 2014. On developing academic literacy in the mother tongue for epistemological access: the role of isiZulu as the LoLT in a South African University. Current Issues in Language Planning 15 (1) : 90–103.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

knowledge | language of instruction | language use | literacy | university

Language as a subject

isiZulu | Languages, African

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

New Literacy Studies is employed to explore to what degree a comprehension of the nature of literacy as social practice, can cultivate isiZulu academic literacy in South Africa and increase epistemological access.