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 an overview of multilingual teaching and learning strategies that have been tried and tested in a number of higher education institutions in South Africa.

Preface  Section 1. Policy Development and the Opening up of Implementation Opportunities  1. Liesel Hibbert and Christa van der Walt: Biliteracy and Translanguaging Pedagogy in South Africa – An Overview  2. Ernst Kotzé: The Emergence of a Favourable Policy Landscape  3. Pamela Maseko: Multilingualism at Work in South African Higher Education: From Policy to Practice  Section 2. Enhanced Student Performance through Biliteracy Pedagogy  4. Ingeborg M. Kosch and Sonja E. Bosch: African Languages as Languages of Teaching and Learning – The Case of the Department of African Languages, University of South Africa  5. Mbulungeni Madiba: Promoting Concept Literacy through Multilingual Glossaries: A Translanguaging Approach  6. Leketi Makalela: Teaching Indigenous African languages to Speakers of Other African Languages: The Effects of Translanguaging for Multilingual Development.  Section 3. Affective Aspects of Biliteracy Pedagogy  7. Andrea Parmegiani and Stephanie Rudwick: An Exploration of Students’ Attitudes.  8. Sandiso Ngcobo: Dual Language Instruction: Its Impact on Attitudes Towards the Role of African Languages in Education.  9. Nomakhaya Mashiyi: Tertiary Educators’ Reflections on Language Practices that Enhance Student Learning and Promote Multilingualism  Section 4. Africanisation and Localisation of Content for Cultural Identification  10. Lerothodi L Leeuw: An Exemplary Astronomical Lesson that Could Potentially Show the Benefits of Multilingual Content and Language in Higher Education.  11. Adelia Carstens and Linda-Anne Alston: Literacy Self-Narratives as Constructions of Pre-Service Teachers’ Multiliterate and Multilingual Identities.  12. Christa van der Walt and Liesel Hibbert: African Languages in Higher Education: Lessons from Practice and Prospects for the Future 

Like it or not, the language debates in South Africa are back and the authors of this excellent book bring together a collection of papers that are empirically rich, theoretically inventive and politically courageous in making the case for multilingualism in the face of the ubiquity of English in school and society.