Articles
Le cerveau multilingue: Acquisition du langage et alphabétisation Holistic brains – neuroscience evidence for approaching to early literacy in multilingual settings Why is mother tongue based education so significant? Carole Bloch, African Leader, Issue 41, 2012.Top-Down Causation, Adaptive Selection, and Their Consequences Authors: George F.R. Ellis and Carole S. Bloch Human Development, June 2011Creating Literate School Communities: Vulindlela Reading Clubs Authors: Neville Alexander, Carole Bloch, Nadeema Jogee, Xolisa Guzula, Ntombizanele Mahobe.Enabling Biliteracy Among Young Children in Southern Africa: Realities, Visions and Strategies Author: Carole BlochLittle Books for Little Hands: A Stories Across Africa Project Author: Carole BlochThe Lion and the Unicorn, 2008 Literacy and linguistic diversity in a global perspective: an intercultural exchange with African countries Language and Development in Multilingual Settings: A Case Study of Knowledge Exchange and Teacher Education in South Africa Authors: Naz Rassool , Viv Edwards and Carole Bloch International Review of Education, 2006Viv Edwards & Jacob Marriote Ngwaru (2012): African language books for children: Issues for authors, Language, Culture and Curriculum, 25:2, 123-137
Carole Bloch (2002): A Case Study of Xhosa and English Biliteracy in the Foundation Phase versus English as a ‘Medium of Destruction’ (Battswood report), Perspectives in Education, 20:1
Carole Bloch (1999): The potential of early childhood for developing and sustaining literacy in Africa , Social Dynamics, 25:1
Conference papers and presentations
What Should We Do with the Children on Monday? Educating Ourselves, Educating Our Children: A 5-Day Curriculum Orientation Conference Report, 2018Ensuring Affordable Quality in Early Childhood Education: What will we DO with the children on Monday? Issues in the Development of Multilingual Children’s Literacy and Literature in South Africa – taking stock Nal’ibali and libraries: activating the gift of reading together Carole Bloch Conference Paper Jan 2015Growing young readers and writers: underpinnings of the Nal’ibali National Reading-for-Enjoyment Campaign Author: Carole Bloch Conference Paper Jan 2014The impact of the hegemony of English on access to and quality of education with special reference to South Africa Author: Neville AlexanderInteractive Journal Writing as a Tool for Mentoring and Teacher Professional Development Author: Xolisa GuzulaEvolving African Approaches to the Management of Linguistic Diversity Author: Neville AlexanderStories Across Africa (StAAf): Towards a Shared African Children’s Literature Author: Carole BlochInitiatives to Reach Early Childhood and Education Author: Carole BlochMultilingual Education or English as a Medium of ‘Destruction’: Language and Literacy Policy and Practice in South African Early Childhood Classrooms Author: Carole BlochEmergent Literacy, Multilingualism and Early Childhood Development Author: Carole BlochFeeling at Home with Literacy in the Mother Tongue Authors: Neville Alexander and Carole BlochImplementation of Mother Tongue Learner-Centred Early Literacy Education in Namibia Author: Carole BlochGlimmers of Hope – Emergent Writing and Reading in a Multilingual Foundation Phase Classroom
PRAESA’s occasional papers
Literacy in the Early Years: Teaching and Learning in Multilingual Early Childhood Classrooms The African Renaissance and the Use of African Languages in Tertiary Education Concepts of Early Childhood Development (ECD), Literacy Learning and Materials Development in Multilingual Settings Enabling effective literacy learning in multilingual South African early childhood classrooms The Rise and Possible Demise of Afrikaans as a Public Language Medium of Instruction and its Effect on Matriculation Examination Results for 2000, in Western Cape Secondary Schools: A study of examination results in relation to home language and language medium Problems and Possibilities in Multilingual Classrooms in the Western Cape English Unassailable but Unattainable: The Dilemma of Language Policy in South African Education Pre-School Child Multilingualism and its Educational Implications in the African Context Multilingual Environments for Survival: The Impact of English on Xhosa-Speaking Students in Cape Town The Case Against Bilingual and Multilingual Education in South Africa Multilingualism in South Africa with a focus on KwaZulu-Natal and Metropolitan Durban Revisiting Bilingual Education in and for South Africa Language rights, ethnic politics: A critique of the Pan South African Language Board Language policy implementation and language vitality in Western Cape primary schools Dual-medium and parallel medium schooling in the Western Cape: from default to design The status of IsiXhosa as an additional language in selected Cape Town secondary schools Learning In, With, and From the First Language Implications of Brown v Board of Education: A Post-Apartheid South African Perspective Community perception of change in a school’s language policy Language and Dementia in Bilingual Settings: Evidence from two case studies Border-Straddling Speech Communities: Linguistic and Educational Challenges facing the Nyanja-Chewa-Mang’anja Cluster of Southeastern Africa Language biographies for multilingual learning Theory and Strategy of Early Literacy in Contemporary Africa with special reference to South Africa Writing and publishing in indigenous languages is a mere waste of time: a critical appraisal of the challenges faced by writers and publishers of Shona literature in Zimbabw e Skills and Levels in Europe – managing diversity in language education Ukusetyenziswa kolwimi lwesiXhosa ukufunda nokufundisa izifundo zezibalo Terminology Development for the Intellectualization of African Languages Edited by Pamella MasekoMultilingualism and the Language Policy for Namibian Schools Author: Andree-Jeanne TotemeyerHow Scientific Terms are Taught and Learnt in the Intermediate Phase Author: Zola WababaThe Potential Role of Translation as Social Practice for the Intellectualization of African Languages Author: Neville AlexanderHome-Language Based Bilingual Education: Towards a Learner-Centred Language Typology of Primary Schools in South Africa Author: Peter PlüddemannWhat Are the Factors Influencing the Relationship Between School Language Policy and the Literacy Proficiency of Learners at Grade 7 Level? Author: Trevor de RochaLanguage “Choice” in Education Author: Carol BensonAffirming Marginal Voice: A Study of a Group of Primary School Children in an Asymmetrical Multilingual Setting Author: Aziza JardineRacial Identity, Citizenship and Nation Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa Effects of a Dialogical Argumentation Instructional Model on Grade 10 Learners’ Conception of Fermentation Language preferences and behaviours of selected students and staff in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town, in the context of the university’s implementation of its 2003 Language Policy and Plan: a qualitative study Viv Edwards & Jacob Marriote Ngwaru (2012): African language books for children: Issues for authors, Language, Culture and Curriculum, 25:2, 123-137
L1-based multilingual education and EGRA: Where do they meet? A Case Study of Xhosa and English Biliteracy in the Foundation Phase versus English as a ‘Medium of Destruction’ (Battswood report), Perspectives in Education, 20:1
The potential of early childhood for developing and sustaining literacy in Africa , Social Dynamics, 25:1
