Multilingual Universities in South Africa

Liesel Hibbert is Professor of Applied Language Studies in the Faculty of Arts, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Her research interests include language development in higher education, linguistic diversity and linguistic ethnography.Christa van der Walt is Professor of Language Education in the Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University. Her research interests include language-in-education, English language teaching in multilingual contexts and multilingual education. She is the author of Multilingual Higher Education: Beyond English-medium Orientations (2013).

Like it or not, the language debates in South Africa are back and the authors of this excellent book bring together a collection of papers that are empirically rich, theoretically inventive and politically courageous in making the case for multilingualism in the face of the ubiquity of English in school and society.

• Preface Section 1. Policy Development and the Opening up of Implementation Opportunities 1. Liesel Hibbert and Christa van der Walt: Biliteracy and Translanguaging Pedagogy in South Africa – An Overview 2. Ernst Kotzé: The Emergence of a Favourable Policy Landscape 3. Pamela Maseko: Multilingualism at Work in South African Higher Education: From Policy to Practice Section 2. Enhanced Student Performance through Biliteracy Pedagogy 4. Ingeborg M. Kosch and Sonja E. Bosch: African Languages as Languages of Teaching and Learning – The Case of the Department of African Languages, University of South Africa 5. Mbulungeni Madiba: Promoting Concept Literacy through Multilingual Glossaries: A Translanguaging Approach 6. Leketi Makalela: Teaching Indigenous African languages to Speakers of Other African Languages: The Effects of Translanguaging for Multilingual Development. Section 3. Affective Aspects of Biliteracy Pedagogy 7. Andrea Parmegiani and Stephanie Rudwick: An Exploration of Students’ Attitudes. 8. Sandiso Ngcobo: Dual Language Instruction: Its Impact on Attitudes Towards the Role of African Languages in Education. 9. Nomakhaya Mashiyi: Tertiary Educators’ Reflections on Language Practices that Enhance Student Learning and Promote Multilingualism Section 4. Africanisation and Localisation of Content for Cultural Identification 10. Lerothodi L Leeuw: An Exemplary Astronomical Lesson that Could Potentially Show the Benefits of Multilingual Content and Language in Higher Education. 11. Adelia Carstens and Linda-Anne Alston: Literacy Self-Narratives as Constructions of Pre-Service Teachers’ Multiliterate and Multilingual Identities. 12. Christa van der Walt and Liesel Hibbert: African Languages in Higher Education: Lessons from Practice and Prospects for the Future