Browsing Research Articles (Linguistics) by Author "Banda, Felix"
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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 ... -
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 ...