Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Languages and Arts Education) by Title
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English studies and language teaching : epistemological access and discursive critique in South Africa.
(2007)This study investigates ways in which English Studies at Rhodes University, the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Natal, and the University of Sydney responded to linguistic and academic literacy needs of ... -
The experiences of teachers on the use of Shangani as the medium of instruction at three selected Chiredzi District schools in Zimbabwe.
(2016)The call for the use of the mother tongue in the education of children especially those at the elementary level has been a contentious issue since the 1953 UNESCO declaration on the use of the mother tongue as the medium ... -
An exploration into the pedagogy of teaching reading in selected foundation phase isiZulu home language classes in Umlazi schools.
(2011)The problem of poor reading levels among South African students is still prevalent at all levels of education. Attempts to eradicate the problem through various means, for example, Foundations for Learning Campaign, Readathon ... -
Exploring literacy practices : a case study of a peri-urban primary school in the Pinetown District ; KwaZulu-Natal.
(2015)This research project specifically focused on understanding the literacy practices of three grade three educators in a peri-urban school, who are entrusted with the task of promoting and mediating literacy acquisition and ... -
Gender attitudes towards feminist literature : lecturers' and students' engagement with feminist literary texts at a university in Zimbabwe.
(2016)The study reports on a qualitative study of the views of university lecturers and students on the feminist literary texts they engaged with at a selected university in Zimbabwe. Through the lenses of the feminist and ... -
Language matters in a rural commercial farm community : exploring language use and implementation of the language-in-education policy.
(2007)The release of the Language-in-Education Policy (LiEP) in July 1997 marked a fundamental and almost radical break from the state-driven language policy of the apartheid government, to one that recognizes cultural diversity ... -
Motivering by die leer van Afrikaans as tweedetaal (t2) en die bereidwilligheid om Afrikaans te praat : ’n gevallestudie by die skool vir opvoedkunde, Universiteit van KwaZulu-Natal.
(2017)Hierdie kwalitatiewe kritiese gevallestudie ondersoek en lewer verslag oor Afrikaans-tweedetaalonderwysstudente, wat ingeskryf het vir die module Afrikaans Kommunikasie 110 by die Skool vir Opvoedkunde aan die Universiteit ... -
Negotiation, participation, and the construction of identities and autonomy in online communities of practice : a case study of online learning in English at a university in South Africa.
(2006)This study is located at the interface of online learning within a context of English language studies and academic literacy and is underpinned, from a critical theoretical perspective, by an understanding of the ... -
On making sense of science discourse : the role of the foundation programme in a South African University.
(2013)The BSc4 (Foundation) programme offered at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) caters for students from disadvantaged educational backgrounds, with lower matriculation points, offering them the opportunity to pursue ... -
Orion, Ram's-horn and Labyrinth : quest and creativity in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf, Agaat and Memorandum.
(2015-07-15)This study of Marlene Van Niekerk’s three novels, Triomf, Agaat, and Memorandum, explores the motifs of quest and creativity, and their association with the spiritual and numinous. Notions of self-creation, the imaginative ... -
Processing heard versus transcribed English vocabulary in English second language (ESL) learners : a quasi-experimental study at a secondary school in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2009)At a technically biased secondary school in KwaZulu-Natal, teachers of Grade 12 English Second Language (ESL) learners, including myself, found it problematic to assess students' writing which is often fraught with spelling ... -
The rebel hero and social anxieties in selected cinematic representations of the twenty-first century hollywood dystopian and science fiction imaginary.
(2017)This thesis focuses on the rebel hero located within four twenty-first century Hollywood films. These films are Equilibrium (2002, dir. Kurt Wimmer), The Island (2005, dir. Michael Bay), The Giver (2014, dir. Phillip Noyce) ... -
School language change led by internal change agents : interrogating the sustainability of school language change initiatives.
(2009)Amid the dearth of implementation of South Africa’s post-apartheid Language-in-education policy which encourages multilingualism and recognizes the value of instruction in the home language of learners, internal change ... -
Social realism in Alex La Guma's longer fiction.
(1998)This thesis sets out to examine social realism in Alex La Guma's longer fiction by using Georg Lukacs's Marxist theory as a point of departure. Tracing the development in La Guma's novels in terms of a shift from critical ... -
The spoken and the written word : stylistic creation in Black broadcasting.
(1993)In this investigation an attempt is made to show that in the world of radio communications in South Africa the oral mode of expression or radio oralism is manifestly more valued than the literate mode. The study deals with ... -
Text to context: an interpretation of suicide in selected plays of Soyinka, Rotimi and Ogunyemi.
(2017)The study engages in a critical interpretation of the phenomenon of suicide and how it is represented in selected plays of three Nigerian authors. The purpose is to understand the discursive nature of suicide in Nigerian ... -
Towards improving equity in assessment for tertiary science students in South Africa : incorporating an oral component.
(2004)This study sought to explore some of the ways in which assessment itself needs to be treated as a feature of equity and transformation in post-apartheid South Africa. How can the classroom become a level playing field for ...