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Critical Language Awareness: Curriculum 2005 meets the TRC

Published in: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Volume 19 , issue 3-4 , 2001 , pages: 241–252

DOI: 10.2989/16073610109486290

Author(s): Hilary Janks

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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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