• Interrogating China’s approach to relations with sub-Saharan Africa in official documents (2000-2010) through critical discourse analysis 

  Ndenguino-Mpira, Hermanno (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  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 ...
• The discourse of liberation: the portrayal of the gay liberation movement in South African news media from 1982 to 2006 

  Mongie, Lauren Danger (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  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”. ...
• Language discordant HIV and AIDS interactions in Lesotho health care centres 

  Sobane, Konosoang Mabafokeng (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

  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 ...
• Discourse strategies of lecturers in higher education classroom interaction : a case at the University Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 

  Shartiely, Nikuigize Erick (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

  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 ...
• Linguistic strategies used in the construction of performance assessment discourse in the South African workplace 

  Jones, Tamiryn (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

  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 ...
• Obligatory reflexivity in Afrikaans : a minimalist approach 

  Oosthuizen, Johan (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

  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 ...
• Managing linguistic diversity in literacy and language development : an analysis of teachers' attitudes, skills and strategies in multilingual Kenyan primary school classrooms 

  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 ...
• Effects of the second language on the first : investigating the development of 'conceptual fluency' of bilinguals in a tertiary education context 

  Oostendorp, Marcelyn Camereldia Antonette (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the effect of the increased use of a second language (L2) (English) as language of teaching and learning on the bilingual individual in a specific bilingual higher education ...
• A theoretical model for a Yipunu-English-French explanatory dictionary of medical terms 

  Mihindou, Guy-Roger (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-04)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The dissertation proposes a theoretical model of a dictionary which will include three languages, namely French, Yipunu and English in a specific field of medicine. The decision to compile such a dictionary ...
• The relationship between narrative skills and reading comprehension : when mainstream learners show signs of specific language impairment 

  Klop, Daleen (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The attainment of literacy is crucial for survival in a modern industrialised, knowledge-driven society. Children with poor language skills are at risk for academic failure because of the differences ...
• Investigating literacy development among learners with a second language as medium of education : the effects of an emergent literacy stimulation program in Grade R 

  Olivier, Johanna M. (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Addressing the low literacy rates in South Africa poses a mountainous challenge. However, identifying children at risk for reading difficulties and providing timely and preventative intervention might ...

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