Browsing Masters Degrees (Languages, Linguistics and Academic Literacy) by Title
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L'analyse du thème la colonisation dans les œuvres littéraires Ngemena de Paul Lomami Tchibamba et La Malédiction de Pius Ngandu Nkashama.
(2009)Critical analysis of the theme “Colonisation” in the literary works of Africa: case of Ngemena by Lomami Tchibamba and La Malédiction by Ngandu Nkashama is the title of this thesis. I intend to do a critical analysis of ... -
Language(s) of instruction in township schools in the KwaMakutha area.
(2006)A quantitative study on the merits of using the learner's mother-tongue (instead of English) as a medium of instruction. This investigation attempts to find out how many schools and parents in KwaMakhutha implement (or ... -
The language-in-education policy and attitudes of learners, educators and parents towards English or/and isiZulu as the language of learning and teaching : the case of selected secondary schools in Durban Metro in KwaZulu-Natal province.
(2004)South Africa has undergone many political changes since the apartheid era. A recent one has included the adoption of a new language-in-education policy recommending, among other things, the use of African indigenous ... -
Le traitement poétique de l'irréel dans Aurélia de Nerval et Les fleurs du mal de Baudelaire.
(2011)No abstract available. -
Les effets délétères de la Polygamie sur les hommes et les enfants dans la société sénégalaise postcoloniale : une analyse d'une si longue lettre de Mariama Bâ, La Grève des Bàttu d'Aminata Sow Fall et Le Ventre de L'Atlantique de Fatou Diome.
(2010)L’arrivée des femmes d’Afrique sur le champ de la littérature écrite était attardée à cause d’un ensemble des facteurs, nommément: la scolarisation insuffisante des filles, le facteur familial, culturel, religieux. Avant ... -
Marlene van Niekerk se Agaat (2004) as 'n postkoloniale plaasroman = Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat (2004) as a postcolonial farm novel.
(2006)This study examines Agaat (2004), the second novel in the oeuvre of Marlene van Niekerk, as both a postcolonial text and a farm novel. Firstly a theoretical perspective is given on postcolonialism, with specific reference ... -
Meaning in "neaming" : the processing of word puns involving morphological and syntactic transposition using the "reverse principle".
(2007)The word pun is one of the figures of speech that people employ in everyday communication and especially in literary works in order to advance intricate aspects of meaning that may not be easy to express using 'plain' ... -
'n Analise van die representasie van geslagtelikheid in Roelf van Rensburg se Gooi hom in die sloot (1971) en Barrie Hough se Skilpoppe (1998) : opvoedkundige implikasies.
(2001)In this dissertation it is indicated that gender is a social construct, while sex is biologically determined. The concept of gender refers to that which is understood within a certain society to define masculinity and ... -
'n Vergelykende studie van die groetroetines tussen Afrikaans- en Isizulumoedertaal-sprekendes.
(2004)No abstract available. -
Narrative text production in L1 IsiZulu/L2 English speaking children from rural KwaZulu-Natal : a case study based on the wordless picture books Abongi’s Journey (Saadien-Raad and Rosser, 2004) and frog, where are you? (Mayer, 1969).
(2017)The investigation of children’s narrative skills is important as they yield literate language use and a child’s comprehending abilities (Curenton and Justine 2004) and at the same time provide access to a child’s level of ... -
Nurturing a multilingual dispensation : the ideological influence of SABC TV broadcasting policy and practice on the language attitudes of a predetermined sample population.
(2011)The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of a predetermined sample population of SABC TV viewers towards SABC’s language policies, and to identify and critically analyse the factors that influenced these ... -
Oor strategiee vir die verbetering van die onderrig en assessering van mondelinge vaardighede in Afrikaans tweede taal.
(2001)This article researches the attitude of learners to the oral activities in the Afrikaans Second Language classroom. The apparent discrepancy between learners' communicative competence and the oral year mark awarded ... -
Orality and its cultural expression in some Zulu traditional ceremonies.
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Outobiografiese tekste in die klaskamer : Het achterhuis : dagboekbrieven van Anne Frank, 2005.
(2009)This study examines the value and relevance of autobiographical texts in the classroom. For the purpose of this study the focus is on Het Achterhuis: dagboekbrieven van Anne Frank. It is a critical study to establish whether ... -
Politeness : the case study of apologies and requests an inter-generation cross-sex study in the Hindu sector of the South African Indian English speaking community.
(2001)The aim of this study is to investigate politeness phenomena within the Hindu sector of the South African Indian English speaking community. The study focuses on the understanding of politeness within the target community ... -
The postmodernist text in contemporary South Africa : a defence of J. M. Coetzee
(1988)One of the most pressing debates in South Africa concerns the need of writers to address the complex sociopolitical demands of the present day situation. In this paper I examine J M Coetzee's use of Postmodernism forms ... -
Pragmatic functions of attitude markers in Kîîtharaka
(2009)KîîTharaka is a Bantu language spoken by a minority community in Kenya numbering about 120,000. Attitude markers belong to the broad category of ‘residue’ elements in language commonly called ‘discourse markers’. Alternative ...