Language and Learning Science in South Africa

By M. Probyn. 2006

112 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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In Language and Linguistics

1. E. Macaro
2. Jack K. H. Pun
3. Julie Dearden
4. M. Probyn
5. Samantha Curle
6. Y. Lo
7. N. Kelly
8. Jennifer Bruen

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. E. Macaro
2. Jack K. H. Pun
3. Samantha Curle
4. Julie Dearden
5. M. Probyn
6. Jiangshan An
7. Y. Lo
8. S. Graham

Citations in the corpus

• Higher Education Teachers' Attitudes towards English Medium Instruction: A Three-Country Comparison. (2016, background): “science and mathematics requiring relatively small vocabularies, there is not only an urgent need for research into subject-specific language requirements but clearly a need for teacher professional development given that research in these subjects (Othman & Saat, 2009; Probyn, 2006), albeit in diff”
• ‘Smuggling the vernacular into the classroom’: conflicts and tensions in classroom codeswitching in township/rural schools in South Africa (2009, background): “Despite the tensions and conflicts in classroom language use, several experienced teachers were able to negotiate understanding with learners by utilising the linguistic resources of the classroom in a manner that was finely tuned to the needs of the learners (see also Probyn 2006a).”
• The effect of first and second language use on question types in English medium instruction science classrooms in Hong Kong (2018, background): “In Africa, teachers reported their primary challenge was to ‘smuggle’ the L1 into EMI classrooms to overcome poor student English proficiency (Probyn 2006).”
• A systematic review of English medium instruction in higher education (2017, background): “This lack of teacher preparation is certainly not specific to EMI HE (see Probyn (2006) in the secondary phase in South Africa).”