Despite the worldwide curriculum innovations to teach English through meaning-focused
communicative approaches over the years, studies report that most language teachers still …

The aim of this study was to describe the problems faced by EFL primary school teachers in
teaching English by employing qualitative design research with case study approach. There …

This paper explores novice foundation phase teachers' descriptions of their experiences in
the liminal stage between being a student teacher and entering the professional world of the …

The failure to achieve academic outcomes in linguistically diverse classrooms in poor areas
of the Western Cape, South Africa, is well documented. A major contributing factor is the …

Learner-centered teaching is known, through research, to enhance effective learning. In
these methods, learners play the key role in learning while teachers only help them to …

Abstract Language competence is both the means and the end to educational achievement,
and multilingualism in particular has important cognitive, academic and societal advantages …

In this article, we report on the results of a project devoted to improving literacy in South
Africa's rural schools; specifically we report the results of an intervention study that centered …

The commentary made here by this intervention researcher arises from a 'place'in which
school-based interventions are used to build knowledge, and thereby to bring relief to a …

Historically, African languages have been in a disadvantaged position and issues related to
dialect are not fully understood and acknowledged. In this study, we examined the influence …

The aim of this study is to reveal the effect of FLA (foreign language anxiety) in native/non-
native speaker of English classrooms. In this study, two groups of students (90 in total) of …