PARADIGMS AND PRACTICES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN FOUNDATION PHASE LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS IN GAUTENG AND LIMPOPO PROVINCES

HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL (HSRC)
UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO (UL)
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA (UP)

A CONSORTIUM FUNDED BY THE NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION (NRF)
SUPPORTED BY THE FRENCH INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA (IFAS)

LAUNCH OF RESEARCH PROJECT
PARADIGMS AND PRACTICES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN FOUNDATION PHASE LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS IN GAUTENG AND LIMPOPO PROVINCES

WORKSHOP: INTRODUCTION TO THE RESEARCH AGENDA
11 TO 12 MARCH 2011
VENUE: ROOM B110, ALDOEL BUILDING, FACULTY OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA

Friday, 11 March 2011

9:30 Registration and refreshments

10:00 FIRST SESSION: CHAIR: DR. ESTHER RAMANI, UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO
10:15 Dr Cas Prinsloo (HSRC): The project - aims, design, management and funding
10:45 Discussion

11:00 Prof. Vic Webb (UP): Language and education: marginalization and failure, or access and success?
11:30 Discussion

11:45 SECOND SESSION: CHAIR: DR. CAS PRINSLOO, HSRC
Prof. Esther Ramani & Dr Michael Joseph (UL): Literacy development in Foundation Phase schools
12:15 Discussion

12:30 Lunch

13:15 THIRD SESSION: CHAIR: DR. MICHEL LAFON, IFAS, UP
Dr Rinelle Evans: Foundation Phase teacher training regarding the language issue
13:45 Discussant: Nokukhanya Ngcobo, UKZN
Discussion

14:15 Dr Cas Prinsloo, Shawn Rogers & Matthews Makgamatha (HSRC): Linguistic skills development in Home Language and First Additional Language (English)
14:45 Discussion

15:00 Refreshments

15:30 FOURTH SESSION: CHAIR: DR. MICHAEL JOSEPH, UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO
Dr. Michel Lafon (UP/IFAS): Linguistic behaviour in Foundation Phase classrooms: A project-specific typology of classrooms
16:00 Discussion

16:15 Prof. Vic Webb (UP): Language policy practice in Foundation Phase schools
16:45 Discussion

17:00 Refreshments / supper

18:00 FIFTH SESSION: CHAIR: DR RINELLE EVANS, UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
General discussion of the day’s contributions, and the research project

19:00 Video presentation on linguistic realities in disadvantaged schools (to be supplied and handled by Dr Michael Joseph, UP)

20:00 Closure for the day


Saturday, 12 March

08:45 Refreshments

09:00 SIXTH SESSION: CHAIR: PROF. VIC WEBB, UP
Completed and on-going research projects on topics related to the research consortium theme
Open contributions from the floor

10:00 Tea

10:15 Post-graduate student discussion meeting: “How do we fit into the research project and what can our contribution to its progress be?”
(Simultaneously): Meeting of non-student workshop participants with the project steering committee

11:15 CONCLUDING SESSION: CHAIR: DR. CAS PRINSLOO
Report back to full group by elected representative of the student members of the research group, and discussions
11:45 Prof. Esther Ramani: Overview of the seminar and of the envisaged project activities for the rest of the year
12:00 Dr Cas Prinsloo: Closure of workshop / project seminar

12:15 Lunch

13:00: Meeting of steering committee members: Planning the way forward