Hed4807 Assignment 3 (Answers) 2024 - Distinction Guaranteed

Well-structured HED4807 Assignment 3 (ANSWERS) 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED. (DETAILED ANSWERS - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED!)..... QUESTION 1 1.1 According to Foster (2005), multiculturalism can be examined as an academic or a political concept. Which academic concepts apply to the South African context? Explain your answer by referring to the South African Constitution and the Language in Education Policy. (10) 1.2 Explain how the synergies between cultural identity, linguistic awareness and meaning making as aspects of translanguaging can be used to develop metacognitive awareness. (10) 1.3 Compare the notion of multilingualism in the global south to the notion of multilingualism from a Eurocentric perspective. (10) 1.4 Heugh et al. (2017) do not regard multilingual practices, such as code-mixing, code-switching, interpreting, translating and negotiating meaning as Afro-centric pedagogies. The argument is that South African learners, for example, function in an integrated linguistic system. Therefore, the two translanguaging dimensions, namely discursive and instructional, may be more appropriate in the South African context. HED4807 Assignment 03 Discuss how discursive and instructional translanguaging may be used in an integrated multilingual context. Provide practical examples to support your discussion. (10) QUESTION 2 2.1 Discuss shortcomings that behaviourism as a theory of language acquisition presents. (4) 2.2 The behaviourist, nativist, socio-interactivist and cognitive development theories each provides unique perspectives on language acquisition and development, and they can complement each other in various ways. Provide a summary of how the nativist and socio-interactivist theories explain how language is acquired. (6) 2.3 Identify and discuss the common factor (denominator) that features in all four of the following additional language learning theories: the socio-interactivist, behaviourist, nativist and cognitive development theories. (10) 2.4 "It can be said that the South African language curriculum is based on the socio-interactivist theory." Choose a language skill to illustrate how the socio-interactivist theory is enacted in the South African curriculum. Include the following in your discussion: a. The language level: Home language or first additional language and grade. b. The language skill and the activity (this could be a learning or assessment activity). c. Provide examples to illustrate your answer. Justify your examples by referring to the socio-interactivist theory so that the link between language skill and theory is clear. (10) QUESTION 3 3.1 Explain in your own words your understanding of the term "scaffolding" in language learning. (15) 3.2 Use Vygotsky's zone of proximal development to explain why an exercise such as the close procedure is an appropriate way to scaffold learning. (10) QUESTION 4 4.1 Explain in your own words what the term "indigenous knowledge systems" means. (5) HED4807 Assignment 03 4.2 Apprenticeship and observations are indigenous methods of teaching and learning. Explain how an essay writing lesson where the process approach is used can be facilitated by means of apprenticeship and observation as indigenous teaching methods.