An investigation into learner disposition and learner demonstrations of Bernstein's recognition and realisation rules.
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2007
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Abstract
The National Research Foundation has directed research to obtain information about
learners who are entering the FET phase of education and have completed nine years
of Outcomes Based Education. This study aims to ascertain whether learners (in the
micro-context of English Home Language - Grade 10) are performing according to
the Assessment Standards stipulated in the NCS 2003 and whether they are
demonstrating control of the recognition and realisation rules as discussed by
Bernstein that apply to poetic analysis. The learners' personal dispositions toward
teaching and learning at a city school in Pietermaritzburg have been analysed to find
out if there is any correlation between their personal dispositions and their control of
the recognition and realisation rules.
The project is a case study and the approach is interpretive. Bernstein's theory forms
the framework from which the model was structured and analysed. Instruments were
developed to measure the degree of control of recognition and realisation
demonstrated by ten, Grade 10 English Home Language learners. These learners also
completed questionnaires and in-depth interviews were conducted to explore the
dispositions of the learners. Results from the recognition and realisation tasks
(mainly qualitative with some quantitative support) were analysed and correlated with
the interpretation of the findings from the interviews and questionnaires.
It is hoped that the conclusions from this research will provide insight into how these
specific learners, who have only experienced Outcomes Based Education, will
perform in the FET phase of education. It is further hoped that the findings may shed
some light into the process of social transformation in South Africa and how, if given
the opportunity to do so, learners develop mastery of the elaborated code that enables
them to function successfully in society. In the words of Zonke (a learner in the
study), how a learner must 'get that light that shows them the way'.
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Thesis (M.Ed.) - University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, [2007].
Keywords
Language and education., English language--Discourse analysis., Theses--Education.