In this article, I propose a theoretical framework for understanding relations between literacy
and child development: The literacy practices of a community map the cognitive affordances …

This chapter explores early childhood literacy practices that African countries use to transmit
literacy skills in schools. Despite the multiplicity of languages within and across national …

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and discussions of these at the recent
Language and Development conference (Cape Town, November 2013) have a particular …

In this paper I raise some of the prevalent issues around initial literacy learning and teaching
which have been evolving in South Africa. In multilingual countries like Namibia and South …

A four-year research and development program at CAPOLSA (the Centre for the Promotion
of Literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa) was inspired by widespread dissatisfaction with poor …

In the multilingual environments of Africa, national literacy policies vary in terms of the
attention they give to the roles and purposes of local, national and international languages …

This chapter surveys a variety of factors that have conspired and continue to conspire to
ensure that Africa remains the world's least literate continent. I focus mainly on the fact that …

So the written language of a child's upbringing in the school (…) became divorced from his
(sic) spoken language at home. There was often not the slightest relationship between the …

This article is the guest editor's introduction to the special issue of the Journal of Multilingual
and Multicultural Development on 'Multilingual Literacy and Social Change in African …

This article outlines the current challenges inherent in the disjuncture between language in
education policy and policy implementation in South Africa and offers some perspectives on …