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Revisiting the prevalence of English: language use outside the home in South Africa

Posel, Dorrit, Mark Hunter and Stephanie Rudwick. 2020. Revisiting the prevalence of English: language use outside the home in South Africa. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2020.1778707

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The ambiguity of English as an academic lingua franca: Perspectives from South Africa

Grounded in linguistic anthropology, the primary objective of this project is to provide a nuanced ethnographic account of how the sociocultural ambiguity of English as an academic lingua franca is one of its most defining features in the South Africa education system.