ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study refers to the use of two languages in education at a satellite campus of the University of Namibia situated in the far north of the country in the town of Ongwediva. The dominant community ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examined the effect of language typically used on social network sites such as Facebook (referred to here as “Facebook-speak”) on the written academic work of a selected group of high school ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: China‘s rise as an economic superpower has had important consequences for its relations with African countries over the past 10-15 years. Not only were these relations thoroughly reviewed and significantly ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation reports on a study that straddles the applied linguistic fields of discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis and a sociolinguistic field recently referred to as “queer linguistics”. ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis reports on the ways in which rape perpetrated by males on females is constructed in news stories and the advice column, Dear Dolly, published in the South African publication, Drum magazine. ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The goal of this study was to determine and compare the functions of the pragmatic
markers (PMs) okay, anyway and shame as they occur in two spoken components of
the International Corpus of English ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the grammatical properties and syntactic derivation of KRY (“get”)-passives in Afrikaans. Analyses of the corresponding phenomenon in other West-Germanic languages are examined and ...
Smit, Johan Brand(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study provides a description of Afrikaans adverbs within the framework of proposals set out by Cinque (1999). Previous analyses of adverbs in Afrikaans have generally been done within a non-generative ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As South Africa is a culturally and linguistically diverse country, there is a great need for an accurate evaluation instrument that can identify children with specific language impairment (SLI) early, ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study reported on in this thesis focuses on six English-German bilingual preschool children in Cape Town. The thesis is interested in understanding the relation between codeswitching (the frequency, ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis focuses on a community of multilingual adolescents who are high performers in mathematics and science, and whose primary language of teaching and learning is English. The participants who form ...
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 ...