ENGLISH ACADEMY QUESTIONS DRAFT NEW CURRICULUM FOR LANGUAGES
The English Academy of Southern Africa has submitted a number of critical comments on the languages CAPS.
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ENGLISH OLYMPIAD WINNERS
Friday, October 22, 2010
2010 Competition – Top 100 winners in rank order The English Olympiad is a joint venture of the South African Council for English Education (SACEE) and the Grahamstown Foundation. The top 50 receive the offer of free tution for a year at Rhodes University; the top 20 receive awards varying from an overseas trip for [...]
NEWSFLASH – CAPS IMPLEMENTATION DELAYED
Friday, October 22, 2010
The Minister of Basic Education announced last week that the refined curriculum statement (CAPS) would not be introduced in 2011. They will be implemented in the Foundation Phase, as well as all other phases, in 2012. Teachers are, therefore, advised to continue with their planning for 2011 based on the current curriculum and assessment statements. [...]
COMMENTS ON DRAFT REVISED CURRICULUM FOR LANGUAGES
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Heartiest congratulations to the compilers of the document for a brave, bold breakaway from the vague waffle of the existing curriculum. The draft revised version is clear, succinct and use-friendly. It is also so, so pleasing to see the abolition of the LOs and ASs! I have looked at the draft and have some concerns, particularly – but not solely – in connection with the fourth skill, viz ‘Language structures and use’.
NEWSFLASH: CALL FOR COMMENTS ON REVISED CURRICULUM
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
The Minister of Basic Education has called for submissions on the draft National Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS) which have been placed on its website.
A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF IAN McEWAN’S ‘SATURDAY’
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Learners who are studying Ian McEwan’s Saturday for their Matric examination, and who are struggling to find information on the novel, will be interested to know that Professor Andrew Foley of the University of the Witwatersrand has discussed the novel in detail in the final chapter of his recent book, The Imagination of Freedom (2009). [...]
2010 ENGLISH ALIVE LAUNCH
Saturday, September 4, 2010
The 2010 English Alive was launched in Cape Town on 18 August 2010.
WITS OFFERS BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONOURS) IN ENGLISH EDUCATION
Saturday, September 4, 2010
WITS OFFERS BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONOURS) OF ENGLISH EDUCATION
CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR 2011 ENGLISH OLYMPIAD
Saturday, September 4, 2010
The organisers of the ENGLISH OLYMPIAD are calling for entries for the 2011 competition.
ENGLISH IN SOUTH AFRICA – A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD (5)
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Graham Bam puts the main problem plain and simply in a letter to the Cape Times: ‘The debate about the use of English as a medium of instruction is going nowhere.’ No more research, theories or proposals. We are running out of time. We have to make a decision.
ENGLISH IN SOUTH AFRICA – A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD (6)
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Greater attention to language education in multilingual schooling is vital if we are to achieve national unity and social reconciliation through the removal of legacies of linguistic inequalities and prejudices that underpinned the racism of our past (Young, cited in Heugh, Siegrühn & Plüddemann 1995: 111).
THE CLASSIC CONCORDANCE OF CACOGRAPHIC CHAOS
Saturday, June 5, 2010
It has been said that English is one of the hardest languages to learn to speak and spell correctly. The poem ‘The Chaos’ represents a virtuoso feat of composition, a mammoth catalogue of about 800 of the most notorious irregularities of traditional English orthography, skilfully versified (if with a few awkward lines) into couplets with alternating feminine and masculine rhymes. You should find this both entertaining and useful for teaching spelling and homophones.
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