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Participatory interventionist learning support for Isixhosa-speaking hospitality students at a technical and vocational education and training (TVET) college
Thesis (MEd)--Stellenbosch University, 2026.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/135764 Participatory interventionist learning support for Isixhosa-speaking hospitality students at a technical and vocational education and training (TVET) college Truter, Elsje Kese, Pamela Phumla Van der Walt, Christa Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Education. Dept. of Curriculum Studies. Thesis (MEd)--Stellenbosch University, 2026. Truter, E. 2026. Participatory interventionist learning support for Isixhosa-speaking hospitality students at a technical and vocational education and training (TVET) college. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/6bc04e26-e6e8-4efb-ac09-30620c80fe8e In South Africa, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges are seen as the solution to address skills shortages and the high youth unemployment rate. The National Certificate Vocational (NCV) programmes offer educational opportunities to many students who do not qualify for other Further Education and Training (FET) programmes or universities. While this is so, the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) established that throughput and student retention rates continued to be low, even as enrolment increased. One of the reasons for this is that the Language of Learning and Teaching (LoLT), which happens to be English, is not the mother tongue or first language for most TVET students in South Africa. Even though the language policy of the College where the study was conducted states that training programmes can be presented in other official languages of South Africa, national examinations are only conducted in English. This study was conducted at a TVET College in the West Coast area of the Western Cape. It was found that the language barrier created by the LoLT contributed to poor academic performance in different subjects of the TVET college students. Considering the students’ peri-urban placement, linguistic capital, schooling background and exposure to English, the conceptual framework of this study was formed. The use of other languages in the classroom would take advantage of students’ linguistic capital and build on those strengths. In order to determine which bilingual pedagogical actions were most productive to facilitate literacy in the Hospitality discourse at the TVET college, admission test results, student questionnaires, observations, a Flexible Bilingual Dictionary & Glossary of Terms tool and field notes were used. Through the Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR) methodology used, it was found that access to First Language (L1) support was the most productive in achieving academic literacy in the Hospitality discourse. This was discovered by means of real-time translations of content, including vocabulary building with the use of the Hospitality-specific dictionary and glossary tools. Findings also revealed that L1 support, in different creative forms, makes for a more engaging classroom experience for both students and lecturers. It also transpired through data analysis of the student questionnaire on language-related attitudes that students accept the hegemony of English as the LoLT but wanted to have access to and use isiXhosa alongside English in the classroom, as they believed this helped them to better understand Hospitality-specific discourse. The language of assessment is a crucial factor that needs to be included in the bi-/multilingual glossary tool, given the fact that national examinations are conducted in English only. However, because of limitations to the study, this could have been explored in more detail and could have led to further study, as to how bi-/multilingual pedagogical support could facilitate literacy in national examinations that are presented in English only. Masters 2026-04-09T14:06:08Z 2026-04-09T14:06:08Z 2026-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/135764 en Stellenbosch University 174 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
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| title_full | Participatory interventionist learning support for Isixhosa-speaking hospitality students at a technical and vocational education and training (TVET) college |
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| title_short | Participatory interventionist learning support for Isixhosa-speaking hospitality students at a technical and vocational education and training (TVET) college |
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