Dr John Wankah Foncha is a Senior Lecturer In Language Education, Faculty of Education. Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa, having received his MA in Linguistics and PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His research interests include identity, intercultural communication competence, reading and writing pedagogies, teaching English as a second language and text-based approaches to language teaching and learning.
This volume explores major hindrances to communication in the way we over-generalise, stereotype and undermine the people with whom we communicate. It investigates the consequent need for greater intercultural awareness on the part of educators and students.
This book explores how quality teaching and learning can ensure that discipline and academic performance prevail. It shows that quality teaching can determine discipline and academic performance, particularly now that other disciplinary measures have been seen to be ineffective.
