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Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 2001, 19 (3&4) : 241–252
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Critical Language Awareness: Curriculum 2005 meets the TRC

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Authors: H Janks

Department of Applied English Language Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa

Corresponding Author: H Janks (E-mail: hilary@global.co.za)

Abstract:
This article discusses the different ways in which the relationship between language and power is conceptualised in recent curriculum documents and in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report. It uses the commissioners' insights that language is a form of social action and that discourses constitute our identities to argue for a more sophisticated view of Critical Language Awareness in education.

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