| Summary: | The research described in this report was undertaken with four teachers of
English as Home Language in two different secondary schools in
Johannesburg. The researcher’s purpose was twofold: (i) to uncover the
attitudes of selected grade nine teachers to the English Home Language
curriculum statement for grade nine; (ii) to establish how, if at all, the
Revised National Curriculum Statement featured in the teachers’
construction of the subject English as home language. The data for this case
study consisted of individual teacher interviews, notes from observations in
the classroom of each teacher and artefacts such as teachers’ term plans and
examples of learners’ texts. Findings from an analysis of this data indicate
varied understandings of and attitudes towards this curriculum statement.
These have translated into equally varied implementation of the curriculum.
Analysis of the teachers’ interviews gave little indication of the rich and
varied learning activities that they planned and implemented. In this case
study, the difference between how teachers talked about the new curriculum
and how they enacted it in their classroom practice was marked.
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