Language variation and change in a Soshanguve high school
This study takes place within a school situated on the north eastern side of Soshanguve, a township to the north of the capital city, Pretoria, also called Tshwane. The school draws most of its learners from an area that started as an informal settlement. Certain parts of this settlement are now wel...
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ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-unisa-oai-umkn-dsp01.int.unisa.ac.za-10500-23442016-04-16T04:07:57Z Language variation and change in a Soshanguve high school Nkosi, Dolphina Mmatsela Finlayson, Rosalie, 1943- Bilingualism Interference Adoption/Borrowing Language varieties Code switching Code mixing Phonological process Tsotsitaal 306.4460968228 Bilingualism -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Multilingualism -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Sotho language -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Interference (Linguistics) Language and languages -- Variation Languages in contact -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Code switching (Linguistics) -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Linguistic change -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Soshanguve (South Africa) -- Languages Tsotsitaal languages This study takes place within a school situated on the north eastern side of Soshanguve, a township to the north of the capital city, Pretoria, also called Tshwane. The school draws most of its learners from an area that started as an informal settlement. Certain parts of this settlement are now well structured and it is gradually becoming a formal settlement. The children who form part of this study are those whose parents have migrated from neighbouring provinces such as Limpopo, North West and Mpumalanga, as well as from neighbouring countries such as Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Owing to this migration, the community around this school is multilingual. Multilingualism has led to phonic, grammatical, semantic and stylistic language interference. This interference has caused language change, which in turn has led to variations that affect the standard form of Sesotho sa Lebowa, the first language of the school. The school selected for this study has achieved very average matriculation results since its establishment in 1994. Although the school generally achieves a 100% pass rate in the subject Sesotho sa Lebowa, marks are generally low despite the fact that the learners are supposedly first language speakers of Sesotho sa Lebowa. The aim of this study is to investigate the reasons for the poor quality of these results. Matriculation results over the past four years attest to the fact that something needs to be done in order to reverse the negative trend of these results. Linguistics M.A. (Sociolinguistics) 2009-08-25T11:02:41Z 2009-08-25T11:02:41Z 2009-08-25T11:02:41Z 2008-03 Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2344 en 1 online resource (x, 114 leaves) |
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Bilingualism Interference Adoption/Borrowing Language varieties Code switching Code mixing Phonological process Tsotsitaal 306.4460968228 Bilingualism -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Multilingualism -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Sotho language -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Interference (Linguistics) Language and languages -- Variation Languages in contact -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Code switching (Linguistics) -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Linguistic change -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Soshanguve (South Africa) -- Languages Tsotsitaal languages |
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Bilingualism Interference Adoption/Borrowing Language varieties Code switching Code mixing Phonological process Tsotsitaal 306.4460968228 Bilingualism -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Multilingualism -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Sotho language -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Interference (Linguistics) Language and languages -- Variation Languages in contact -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Code switching (Linguistics) -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Linguistic change -- South Africa -- Soshanguve Soshanguve (South Africa) -- Languages Tsotsitaal languages Nkosi, Dolphina Mmatsela Language variation and change in a Soshanguve high school |
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This study takes place within a school situated on the north eastern side of Soshanguve, a township to the north of the capital city, Pretoria, also called Tshwane. The school draws most of its learners from an area that started as an informal settlement. Certain parts of this settlement are now well structured and it is gradually becoming a formal settlement. The children who form part of this study are those whose parents have migrated from neighbouring provinces such as Limpopo, North West and Mpumalanga, as well as from neighbouring countries such as Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Owing to this migration, the community around this school is multilingual. Multilingualism has led to phonic, grammatical, semantic and stylistic language interference. This interference has caused language change, which in turn has led to variations that affect the standard form of Sesotho sa Lebowa, the first language of the school.
The school selected for this study has achieved very average matriculation results since its establishment in 1994. Although the school generally achieves a 100% pass rate in the subject Sesotho sa Lebowa, marks are generally low despite the fact that the learners are supposedly first language speakers of Sesotho sa Lebowa. The aim of this study is to investigate the reasons for the poor quality of these results. Matriculation results over the past four years attest to the fact that something needs to be done in order to reverse the negative trend of these results. === Linguistics === M.A. (Sociolinguistics) |
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Language variation and change in a Soshanguve high school |
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