Xolisa Guzula

University of Cape Town | UCT · School of Education

This chapter offers two case studies of attempts to delink from colonial language ideologies in higher education (teacher education programme).

Language and Decoloniality in Higher Education presents a series of case studies from different higher education contexts in South Africa, a country which has undergone massive transformation in recent decades. It goes beyond profiling approaches which address these issues through the recognition and affirmation of different languages and groups (e...

While there have been significant paradigm shifts in conceptualising language in applied linguistics and in critiquing the historical monolingual bias in the discipline, monolingual approaches continue to dominate officially prescribed language teaching and learning approaches, curricula, policy and materials in South African education. In this pap...