Browsing Faculty of Arts by Author "Banda, Felix"
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Sociolinguistics and modes of social class signalling: African perspectives
Banda, Felix (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)The paper evaluates spatial, behavioural, and material signal-ling of social class in African contexts, focusing on Kenya and Zambia. In particular, it draws on notions of mode of class signalling and intersectionality and ... -
Study groups and peer roles in mediated academic literacy events in multilingual educational contexts in South Africa
Banda, Felix (SUN Journals, 2007)This paper explores the role of study groups in mediating academic writing, particularly among multilingual black students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). Using data from questionnaires, focus groups, and ... -
The topoi of Mandela's death in the Arabic speaking media: A corpus-based political discourse analysis
Mohammed, Tawffeek A. S.; Banda, Felix; Patel, Mahmoud (Frontiers Media, 2022)The present study attempts a political discourse analysis of a spoken Arabic corpus on the death of Nelson Mandela. The corpus mainly consists of the coverage of some Arabic-speaking TV channels that was broadcasted in ... -
Towards a democratisation of new media spaces in multilingual/multicultural Africa: A heteroglossic account of multilocal and multivoiced counter-hegemonic discourses in Zambian online news media
Banda, Felix (University of Stellenbosch, Department of General Linguistics, 2016)This paper explores the production of hybrid cultural identities in Zambian online news websites. Using extracts from five popular online newspapers, namely Lusaka Times, The Post, Kachepa360, Zambia Reports and Zambian ... -
Towards a technology-enhanced blended approach for teaching Arabic for Shari’ah purposes (ASP) in the light of the South African national qualifications framework
Mohammed, Tawffeek A. S.; Al-Sowaidi, B.; Banda, Felix (International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 2021)The study investigates the use of a blended learning approach for teaching Arabic as a foreign language at a South African Islamic college in the light of the South African National Qualifications Framework level ... -
Translanguaging and English-African language mother tongues as linguistic dispensation in teaching and learning in a black township school in Cape Town
Banda, Felix (Routledge, 2018)Drawing on the notion of translanguaging, I show how learners in a Black township secondary school in Cape Town use their multilingual repertoire to achieve power, agency and voice. I use the conceptualisation of the ...