Publications

Publication details [#66059]

Dowling, Tessa and Lara Krause. 2019. ‘Ndifuna imeaning yakhe’: translingual morphology in English teaching in a South African township classroom. The International Journal of Multilingualism 16 (3) : 205–225.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language teaching | functional linguistics | morphology | multilingualism | translinguistics

Language as a subject

Bantu | English | Xhosa

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

A Grade 4 English language teacher in a township school in Cape Town, South Africa, in her search to fit out learners with novel target language resources, is not stopped by the perceived limits dividing named languages, and uses language in creative and goal-directed manners. Pivotal to this paper is the incipient concept of translanguaging.