Browsing by Subject "concept development"

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    It's easy to learn when you using your home language but with English you need to start learning languge before you get to the concept': bilingual concept development in an English medium university in South Africa
    (Taylor & Francis, 2009) Paxton, Moragh Isobel Jane
    This article describes a multilingual glossary project in the economics department at the University of Cape Town which gave multilingual students learning economics through the medium of English, opportunities to discuss new economic concepts in their home languages in order to broaden and enrich understanding of these new concepts. The findings from this project illustrate how important it is that students use a range of languages and discourses to negotiate meaning of unfamiliar terms. The article responds to Mesthrie's (2008) caution regarding the development of multilingual glossaries, dictionaries and textbooks at higher education level in South Africa. It argues that translation of terminology happens inevitably both inside and outside our university classrooms as multilingual university students, in peer learning groups, codeswitch from English to their primary languages in order to better understand new concepts and this could be used as an important resource for building academic registers in African languages.
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    TEDI 2 Week 4 - The Parent-Teacher Partnership: A Parent's Perspective
    (2019-06-01) Birdsey, Bianca
    Bianca Birdsey, a medical doctor, founder of a parent support group for parents with deaf children in South Africa and proud mum of three deaf daughters, gives her perspective on working with parents for the well-being of deaf and hard-of-hearing kids. She discusses the superfluity of emotions that parents feel and the many unanswered questions they ask when they have a deaf child. She acknowledges the arduous task teachers have in supporting and educating deaf children and supporting their parents who are just coming to terms with the fact that their child is deaf. However, she offers an abundance of strategies that teachers can use to navigate through these tasks. This is video lecture 4/8 of week 4 of the course: Educating Deaf Children: Becoming an Empowered Teacher.