Discourse Patterns in First Language Use at Hcme and Second Language Learning at School: an Ethnographic Approach

List of Tables and Figures

The Setting

Table 3.1 Illiteracy Fate in Population over 7 Years of Age
in Mozambique, 1980 68

Table 3.2 Percentage of School Attendance by Age Group in

Mozambique, 1980 68

Fig. 3.1 Percentage of Population over 10 Years of Age and
Educational Qualifications in Mozambique, 1980 69

Table 3.3 Educational Provision in Colonial Mozambique and
Other Countries 78

Table 3.4 School Enrolment in Mozambique in Selected Years,
1975-84 81

Table 3.5 lumber of Mew Graduates and Teachers in Mozambique
in Selected Years, 1975-1984 81

Fig. 3.2 School Coverage by Sex and Age Group in Mozambique
in Selected years, 1967-84 82

The Method

Table 4.1 The Codebook 107

Table 4.2 Differences between Home and School Talk 122

Interpretation of Results

Table 5.1 Identity of Speakers in Conversational Sequences 131

Table 5.2 Participants in Conversational Sequences 132

Table 5.3 Main Topics in Conversational Sequences 133

Table 5.4 Main Purpose of Conversational Sequences 155

Table 5.5 Main Functions of Utterances by Speaker in CSs 138

Table 5.6 Basic functions of Utterances by Speaker in CSs 138

Table 5.7 Influence of Distribution of Basic Functions 139

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