Includes bibl. references and index.

Part 1. Policy Development and the Opening up of Implementation Opportunities 1. Biliteracy and Translanguaging Pedagogy in South Africa : An Overview / Liesel Hibbert and Christa van der Walt 2. The Emergence of a Favourable Policy Landscape / Ernst Kotzé 3. Multilingualism at Work in South African Higher Education : From Policy to Practice / Pamela Maseko

Part 2. Enhanced Student Performance through Biliteracy Pedagogy 4. African Languages as Languages of Teaching and Learning : The Case of the Department of African Languages, University of South Africa / Ingeborg M. Kosch and Sonja E. Bosch 5. Promoting Concept Literacy through Multilingual Glossaries : A Translanguaging Approach / Mbulungeni Madiba 6. Teaching Indigenous African Languages to Speakers of Other African Languages : The Effects of Translanguaging for Multilingual Development / Leketi Makalela

Part 3. Affective Aspects of Biliteracy Pedagogy 7. isiZulu-English Bilingualisation at The University of KwaZulu-Natal : An Exploration of Students' Attitudes / Andrea Parmegiani and Stephanie Rudwick 8. Dual Language Instruction : Its Impact on Attitudes Towards the Role of African Languages in Education / Sandiso Ngcobo 9. Tertiary Educators' Reflections on Language Practices that Enhance Student Learning and Promote Multilingualism / Nomakhaya Mashiyi

Part 4. Africanisation and Localisation of Content for Cultural Identification 10. An Exemplary Astronomical Lesson that Could Potentially Show the Benefits of Multilingual Content and Language in Higher Education / Lerothodi L. Leeuw 11. Literacy Self-Narratives as Constructions of Pre-Service Teacher's Multiliterate and Multilingual Identities / Adelia Carstens and Linda-Anne Alston 12. African Languages in Higher Education : Lessons from Practice and Prospects for the Future / Christa van der Walt and Liesel Hibbert

"Focusing on the use of African languages in higher education, this book showcases South African higher education practitioners' attempts to promote a multilingual ethos in their classes. It is a first-time overview of multilingual teaching and learning strategies that have been tried and tested in a number of higher education institutions in South Africa. Despite language-in-education policies that extol the virtues of multilingualism, practice remains oriented towards English-only learning and teaching. In the multilingual contexts of local campuses, this book shows how students and lecturers attempt to understand their multiple identities and use the available languages to create multilingual learning environments." (Book Cover)