Browsing Masters Degrees (Languages, Linguistics and Academic Literacy) by Title
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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 ... -
"Rap for abokhokho nelokishi nabantu bonke" : language choice in hop hop music from KwaZulu-Natal : a sociolinguistic approach.
(2007)The main focus of hip hop music is on the beats and the lyrics. Hip hop lyrics. performed as 'rap' (fast poetic rhymes) address topics such as self-portrayal, roots, life, location, time and space. From its beginnings, hip ... -
(Re)construction de l’image, de l’identité féminine africaine et la Rébellion féminine contre le pouvoir préétabli: Représentation des femmes noires africaines dans des romans féminins spécifiques des années 1980: Analyse des romans écrits par Angèle Rawiri, Calixthe Beyala, Evelyne Mpoudi Ngolle et Nafissatou Niang Diallo.
(2018)Ayant son origine après l'indépendance des pays africains, dans les années 1970/1980, la littérature féminine francophone s’avère enrichissante. Avec l’arrivée de la femme dans le monde romanesque, les thèmes, le style et ... -
Reading for foundation : why Science Foundation Programme students struggle and how scaffolding can help.
(2007)Reading lies at the centre of Science Foundation Programme (SFP) students' struggle for access to the very support that such programmes offer in preparation for undergraduate study. It is a skill that is generally not ... -
The representation of women in Lauretta Ngcobo's And they didn't die
(2008)Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die depicts the lives of rural African women who lived under apartheid rule in KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa in the 1950s and 1960s. The dissertation examines Ngcobo’s representation ... -
Representations of 'home' and 'exile' in Breyten Breytenbach's Memory of snow and of dust.
(2010)This mini-dissertation aims to examine the way in which Breyten Breytenbach explores the concepts of home and exile in his novel Memory of Snow and of Dust. The author captures and conveys the experience of exile, and ... -
Representations of gender and sexuality in the key characters of Lauren Beukes's interstitial fiction.
(2015)In the past seven years South African author Lauren Beukes has published four highly successful novels: Moxyland (2008), Zoo City (2010), The Shining Girls (2013), and Broken Monsters (2014). Beukes’s novels have garnered ... -
Return to the farm : landscape as a site for the interrogation of identity in three works of J.M. Coetzee.
(2002)The dissertation focuses on 1. M. Coetzee's novels The Life and Times of Michael K., Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life and Disgrace, analysing the central protagonists' engagement with the landscape in general and ... -
The role of generic communication in preparing students for engineering workplace practices : the contribution of the communication course towards the student's preparation in genre and contextualized language in the workplace.
(2011)This thesis argues that generic communication practice plays an important role in preparing engineering students for the workplace. Engineering courses, being contextually-bound, cannot prepare students in the same way ... -
The role of planning time in inducting preschool children into aspects of schooled literacy.
(1996)This dissertation describes a microethnographic study of the induction of preschool children into the practices of schooled literacy at an ex-Natal Education Department, Anglican-affiliated preschool. The sources of data ... -
The role of the Hajee Ahmed Mahomed Lockhat Wakuff in the promotion of Arabic and Islamic studies.
(2004)The operative term in the title is "Wakuff'. It is an Arabic term, commonly used in the Muslim World, with pious implications deep-rooted in the sacred texts. (The Holy Qur'an and the Hadith). A Wakuff is an endowment in ... -
Scrambling in Afrikaans.
(2012)‘Scrambling’ languages allow arguments in a given sentence to be ordered in a variety of ways while leaving the grammatical roles of these arguments unchanged. West Germanic languages like German, Dutch, Yiddish, and West ... -
Sociolinguistic dynamics and challenges facing African learners in multiracial schools in terms of their linguistic and cultural identities.
(2005)This dissertation explores the sociolinguistic dynamics and challenges facing African learners in some multiracial schools in KwaZulu-Natal in terms of their linguistic and cultural identities. It seeks to investigate the ...