ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This PhD study investigated the organisational structure of medical communicative facilities and
the related communicative experiences of health care providers and patients in HIV and AIDS care
centres ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper was to investigate the language used in communicating with South Africans born in Zambia and Tanzania during the years of "the struggle" and now repatriated – the returnees. From ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates how linguistic super diversity is managed in a higher education context in Tanzania. Specifically, the use of language in lectures to large classes made up of students with ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: At independence, Namibia chose English as its official language and therefore its language of
learning and teaching (LOLT). Since then, government documents and other literature have
revealed the poor ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the construction of Performance Assessment Discourses in three
companies in the Western Cape, South Africa. The specific interest of is in how Performance
Assessment Interviews ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A lack of English proficiency and failure to use standard phraseology played a role in
two of the world’s largest aviation disasters in South Germany and Tenerife,
respectively. As a result, the crucial ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates differences in L1 and L2 Grade 12 learners' interpretation of an English literary text. In particular, the research focuses on pragmatic features of the text, or features which ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the phenomenon of obligatory reflexivity in Afrikaans. Despite a considerable literature on this phenomenon as it is reflected in other languages, the Afrikaans data have not received ...
Nyaga, Susan Karigu(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates teachers' language practices in multilingual classrooms with regard to their attitudes, skills and strategies in their management of linguistic diversity among learners in their ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on aspects of linguistic communication, specifically in campus media
discourse, where portrayals of minority groups, such as African foreigners, affect the
attitudes of readers and ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Due to increasing concern about the low levels of throughput at university level, and with an
ever-growing awareness of the important role that students’ academic literacy plays in academic
success, ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Research into the variables which affect second language (L2) learning has shown varying results. The
relationship between one of these factors, language learning strategies (LLSs), and language
proficiency ...
Warren, Joseph Rizal(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The number of students studying outside of their country of birth is growing rapidly. While the United States of America only sends a small number of students abroad every year, high profile institutions ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During the course of my work as Communications lecturer at a multicultural university, I have noticed differences in the manners in which Sesotho-speaking and Afrikaans-speaking students make the same ...
Thutloa, Alfred MautsaneHuddlestone, Kate(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2011)
In South Africa, reports on language shift have focused on instances of language shift from indigenous African languages to English. There is, however, also research that suggests that language shift is taking place from ...