5 articles in this issue
Laurence Wright
Formal language planning is inevitably a top-down, highly technical process. Success for such planning would seem to depend on engaging productively with existing or readily developed social motivation within the society. This article reports on an inform... see more
Esther Ramani,Michael Joseph
This paper describes a piece of classroom-centred research we did into the extensive reading practices of adult basic literacy learners. The research reported here was part of a larger research project into the 'communicational' teaching of English for be... see more
Jenny Menkveld
One of the psycholinguistic approaches, the integrated approach, is by far the most appropriate for outcomes-based education, which forms the basis of the Revised Curriculum Statement In this article, two initial teaching methods, which are based on an in... see more
MA Mall,MM Nieman
This article discusses a number of problems that are unique to the teaching of Arabic in private schools in South Africa and Botswana. Specific attention is given to aspects of teaching that mean that learners are unable to reach a level of communicative ... see more
Elaine Ridge
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