Abstract
This article adopts a critical approach to literacy and genre analysis to explore the place for multilingualism at a South African historically white university's law faculty. Drawing on data from think-aloud protocols and semi-structured interviews, it seeks to gain insight into the following: the (meta)cognitive reading strategies used by first-year English additional language (EAL) students in reading the legal judgment; the impact of language on strategy use, and lastly, students' perceptions of the value of their home languages for mediating reading challenges as surfaced in the think-aloud protocols. Drawing on Tardy et al.’s (2020) theoretical framework for researching genre knowledge, the findings demonstrate how reading strategies are utilised differently for different purposes. Participants' uses of the strategies of ‘setting a context’ and ‘rereading’ illustrate how language intersects with home and school-based discourses and the impact thereof on reading.
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