Peripheral normativity: Literacy and the production of locality in a South African township school

Blommaert, Jan; Muyllaert, Nathalie; Huysmans, Marieke; Dyers, Charlyn

doi:10.1016/j.linged.2006.03.001

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“…Doing it right is emphasized, as with the use of fingers to blend sounds, known as 'freddy fingers' where the correct hand movement is crucial. This recalls the great emphasis on acquiring formal writing skills which Blommaert et al (2005) describe in their study of new arrivals in a Belgian school. Ms P wishes to emphasize ways of speaking, such as clarity and confidence.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…I shall bring these strands together under what I call a sociolinguistic perspective. Linguistic ethnographers such as Blommaert et al (2005), Rampton (1995) and Harris and Lefstein (2011) have investigated classrooms using a detailed sociolinguistic analysis. Here my interest is in a sociolinguistics tied more firmly to pedagogy, in particular the ways in which literacy lessons are enacted by teachers and learners with varying degrees of effectiveness.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Literacy and the Bilingual Learner

Wallace

2013

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Section: A Sociolinguistic Perspective: Bringing Practice and Text Tomentioning

confidence: 99%

Literacy and the Bilingual Learner

Wallace

2013

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“…Nevertheless, as Extract 12 shows, these youths' English exhibits the extensive grammatical mistakes and odd constructions that is typical of "grassroots English" (Blommaert 2010:128), which is often the product of the limited resources of learning English in the global periphery as well as a product of the "peripheral norms" (Blommaert et al 2005a) of English that develop as a result of these conditions of the periphery. 8 These youth seem to be aware of this and have expressed their concern whether they are able to meet the English requirements of tertiary education which includes passing the TOEFL exam.…”

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Part of a larger dissertation research, the paper will investigate preliminary data on the codeswitching and language mixing use of Javanese (a local language), Bahasa Indonesia or BI (the national language) and English by youth, both in conversations as well as in writing, in the city of Semarang in Central Java, Indonesia, a multilingual developing country of the global South. The preliminary findings indicate that youth in Semarang use Javanese, BI and English under a norm of polylingualism, with Javanese and BI being the predominant bilingual medium in spoken conversation. Gaul Indonesian, a sub-dialect of BI, acts as an intermediate scale between local and global scales of language. While BI is predominantly used in writing, the use of Javanese re-emerges in the least regulated and most informal domains of writing. The youth in this study use English more in writing than in spoken conversation, using it as a means of expressing a voice that is locally different and resonates with global popular culture but for the purpose of expressing very local and personal expressions.

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“…For instance, the difficulties in balancing the interests of all 11 official languages; slow progress in linguistic development (including standardisation and making them relevant to science, technology and advanced literature); a low turnover in training teachers who can teach in indigenous languages; and utility of the indigenous languages at higher levels of education, business and commerce remains low (Cele, 2004;Foley, 2004;Tshotsho, 2013;Webb, 2013). Another factor frequently identified is the insufficient support and demand from general indigenous language communities due to the perceived low value and esteem of the languages (Blommaert et al, 2005;Foley, 2004;Tshotsho, 2013;Turner, 2012;Webb, 1999Webb, , 2009Webb, , 2013.…”

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confidence: 99%