What are the factors influencing the relationship between school language policy and the literacy proficiency of learners at Grade 7 level?

"In this case study, Trevor da Rocha investigates the factors that influence the language and literacy proficiency of learners at Grade 7 level in a Cape Flats school. Key factors identified in the study include the language policy of the school, the language awareness of the teachers, the teachers' interpretation of the school's language policy, and the role of language attitudes in gaining literacy proficiency. Framed within a qualitative research paradigm, the researcher as participant-observer finds evidence of the ongoing shift from Afrikaans to English on the Cape Flats, and of the persistence of the stigma of Kaapse Afrikaans amongst its speakers"--P. 4 of cover.