‘There’s a hippo on my stoep’: Constructions of English second language teaching and learners in the new National Senior Certificate

dc.creator	Moeain Arend
dc.creator	Rochelle Kapp
dc.date	2011-09-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:12:40Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:12:40Z
dc.identifier	10.5785/27-1-94
dc.identifier	0259-2312
dc.identifier	2224-0012
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/d9b5d28d36ac412799a58b7fe3eab157
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/15421
dc.description	<em>The focus of this paper is an analysis of the conceptualisation of language teaching and the construction of learners in the new National Senior Certificate grade 12 curriculum and examinations taken by students for whom English is an additional language. The paper examines the values, attitudes and beliefs, as well as the required levels of cognitive engagement and notions of reading and writing. The authors argue that the curriculum represents a significant improvement on the previous version. However, there is a considerable mismatch between the Curriculum Statement and the examination papers. The curriculum emphasis on the role of language as a tool for critical, independent thinking is not evident in the examination papers, which reinforce traditional gender norms and essentialised notions of Africa. The examination papers are cognitively undemanding, requiring only the most basic understandings of texts. The authors argue that, by making it possible to pass at a very basic level, the examination system in effect obscures the contradiction that although the majority of learners have to use English as a first language across the curriculum, the language itself is taught as a second language. </em>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Stellenbosch University
dc.relation	http://perlinguam.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/94
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/0259-2312
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0012
dc.source	Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, Vol 27, Iss 1 (2011)
dc.subject	Second language teaching
dc.subject	English
dc.subject	national senior certificate
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	‘There’s a hippo on my stoep’: Constructions of English second language teaching and learners in the new National Senior Certificate
dc.type	article