Experiencing language challenges in a rural school : implications for learners’ life aspirations

dc.contributor.authorOmidire, Margaret Funke
dc.contributor.emailfunke.omidire@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-13T14:12:22Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThis article reports on the influence of communication skills on rural students’ resilience and well-being. Purposive sampling was used to retrospectively select 40 (f: n = 20; m: n = 20) Grade 9 students in a rural school that were involved in a larger youth project that aimed to deliver pathways towards resilience in rural schools through cross-cultural measures for assessments, career guidance andtherapeutic interventions. The project aimed to provide academic service learning opportunities for the second-year Master’s in Educational Psychology students. Secondary data analysis was employed to explore and analyse the data. From the findings, the most frequently indicated challenges the students faced included limited expressive and receptive skills in English. Although they have dreams and hopes for the future, the students’ lack of language proficiency hinders their career aspirations and life beyond school. Future research should focus on ways to enhance their communicative competences.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentEducation Management and Policy Studiesen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2020-08-20
dc.description.librarianhj2019en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Flourishing Learning Youth Study, Centre for the Study of Resilience with the NRF Grant: 82620, CEC12091412827.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/gecd20en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMargaret Funke Omidire (2020) Experiencing language challenges in a ruralschool: implications for learners’ life aspirations, Early Child Development and Care, 190:10,1619-1637, DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2019.1660963.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0300-4430 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1476-8275 (online)
dc.identifier.issn10.1080/03004430.2019.1660963
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/71348
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_ZA
dc.rights© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an electronic version of an article published in Early Child Development and Care, vol. 190, no. 10, pp. 1619-1637, 2020. doi : 10.1080/03004430.2019.1660963. Early Child Development and Care is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/gecd20.en_ZA
dc.subjectSecond language learningen_ZA
dc.subjectCommunication skillsen_ZA
dc.subjectRural schoolsen_ZA
dc.subjectLanguage challengesen_ZA
dc.subjectTeachingen_ZA
dc.subjectLearningen_ZA
dc.titleExperiencing language challenges in a rural school : implications for learners’ life aspirationsen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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