Department of Modern Foreign Languages

Dog guides as witnesses with specific reference to Miles and Houellebecq

Du Toit, Catherine (Van Schaik Publishers, 2018)

Since Wild Dog first crawled from the Wet Wild Woods and laid his head on Woman’s lap, he has helped man, not only to hunt and protect, but also as guide. A guide with enhanced senses in the physical world who could find ...

Of dirt, disinfection and purgation : discursive construction of state violence in selected contemporary Zimbabwean literature

Ncube, Gibson (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association, 2018)

This paper examines post-independent Zimbabwean literary narratives which engage with how the ruling ZANU-PF government frames dissenting voices as constituting dirt, filth and undesirability. Making use of Achille Mbembe's ...

Integrating new technology in the language classroom : innovative teacher identities

Valentyn, Gail (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study reports on the recorded narratives of language teachers' giving their observations and experience of using new technologies in language classrooms. There is limited research on South African ...

Umkampfte Begriffe in staatlichen Integrationskursen : zum Umgang mit migrationsgeschichtlichen »Erinnerungs(w)orten« in Lehrwerken fur Orientierungskurse

Krannich, Hans-Martin (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The work analyses migration-historical representations on the subject of »guest workers« or labour migration respectively, in textbooks for public orientation courses with regard to their function in the ...

"Andere machen hier Urlaub, ich lebe hier!" - Deutschland- und Sudafrikabilder und die Reprasentation von 'Lifestyle' im Diskurs deutschsprachiger Lifestyle-MigrantInnen im sudlichen Afrika

Zimmermann, Dana Mercedes (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: „Others come here for vacation, I live here!“ The discursive constructions of Germany and South Africa and the representation of ‘life-style’ in the discourse of German-speaking lifestyle-migrants in ...

Homosexualität und die Frage der Zugehorigkeit am Beispiel von Lutz van Dijks Verdammt starke Liebe

Van Schalkwyk, Lorenzo (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This Master’s thesis investigates homosexuality and belonging (‚Zugehörigkeit’) in the novel Verdammt starke Liebe (1991) of West-Berlin born German author Lutz van Dijk. The novel portrays the charged ...

Zu Lernmotivationen fur Deutsch im sudafrikanischen Kontext am Beispiel einer Fallstudie : Stellenbosch

Groenewald, Karin (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The following thesis focuses on the identification of tendencies in the motivation for learning German as a foreign language in South Africa, and the implicated power structures of these tendencies. ...

Race als Zugehörigkeitskonstrukt im DaF Kontext – Eine kritische Analyse am Beispiel von Friedrich Dürrenmatts Die Virusepidemie in Südafrika

Thamm, Eva (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Race as a construct of belonging in the context of German as a Foreign Language (GFL) –A critical analysis of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Die Virusepidemie in Südafrika This thesis discusses the cultural ...

Gewalt und Trauma. Erfahrungen deutscher Kinder im sudlichen Afrika : eine Untersuchung von vier Romanen

Wilson, Gillian (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis will examine how violence towards children and its traumatic consequences are portrayed. Violence often refers to that which is physical and grandiose (i.e. extreme) in nature. It can, however, ...

Intertextualité chez Michel Houellebecq : un monde suspendu entre réalité et fiction

Von Wielligh-Steyn, Mercy Lydia (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In a world where the media has blurred the boundaries between public and private life, the status of the contemporary writer has become increasingly difficult to define. One can rightly raise the question ...

The implementation of blended learning in an English communication course for first-year university engineering students - a case study

Raban, Mukhtar (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACTS: Engineering qualifications in South Africa are required to include an English communication module or course that equips students with the necessary academic and professional English communication ...

Zugehörigkeit trotz Ortlosigkeit. Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Betrachtung des Jugendromans Dazwischen : Ich von Julya Rabinowich. Mit einem Didaktisierungsvorschlag.

Van Wyk, Mizan (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Dazwischen: Ich (2016) is a young-adult novel, set in a German-speaking country, which follows the experiences of Madina, a refugee teenage girl, and her family in their struggle to recreate belonging in ...

Eine Didaktisierung zum Einsatz im literaturwissenschaftlich orientierten DaF-Unterricht an der Universität Stellenbosch am Beispiel von Wolfgang Herrndorfs "Tschick"

Hahnfeld, Andrea (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The application of blended learning is currently required by many institutions. Especially in the field of content and language integrated learning at universities, blended learning offers learners many ...

Didaktik der Literarizität: Didaktische Überlegungen zu Wolfgang Herrndorfs Romane Tschick und Bilder deiner großen Liebe (B1-B2)

Johannes, Angelika Heidrun (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT : This thesis aims to make a contribution to the field of teaching German as a Foreign Language. Based on Dobstadt and Riedner’s theoretical concept of “didactics of literariness” (“Didaktik der ...

Diskursive (Re-)Konstruktion von Gender im Kontext von Integrationskursen - eine Analyse von DaF/Z-Lehrwerken

Tucholski, Lea (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT : The following master thesis analyzes the construct of gender in textbooks of German as a foreign and second language. It shows the implicit influence of gender on the construction of textbook reality ...

South African Space(s) and Belonging(s). A critical analysis of Max Annas’ thriller Die Mauer in consideration of teaching German as a Foreign Language (GFL) within South African Tertiary Education.

Crous, Mikhaila (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT : South African Space(s) and Belonging(s). A critical analysis of Max Annas’ thriller Die Mauer in consideration of teaching German as a Foreign Language (GFL) within South African Tertiary Education. Aiming ...

Einfluss der Sprachbiographie auf das Erlernen des Deutschen als Fremdsprache am Beispiel von südafrikanischen Deutsch-Lernern im zweiten Lernjahr an der Stellenbosch University, Südafrika

Kesslau, Moritz (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT : The following study focuses on the writing skills of predominantly mother-tongue speakers of Afrikaans and English and how the language biography affects the acquisition of German as a foreign language ...