Evolving Shared Discourse with Teachers to Promote Literacies for Learners in South Africa: Alan and Viv Kenyon

In January 1994 9-year-old Nonkokheli, a Xhosa speaker, found herself in an English medium 'Model C' school l in Cape Town, barely able to communicate with her peers and teacher. She had come from a rural area to stay with an aunt who 'in the child's best interests' sent her to what had previously been a whites only school. Nonkokheli, already reading and writing in Xhosa, now struggled to speak, read and write in English.