Browsing Masters Degrees (Languages, Linguistics and Academic Literacy) by Title
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An investigation into the language educators' application of contemporary linguistics in relation to the language teaching situation at the University of Durban-Westville.
(2000)This investigation analyses current issues in the language teaching situation at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW). It defines parameters with which language educators can make choices. Effective language teaching ... -
An investigation into the role of codeswitching in classroom interaction in Transkei junior secondary schools.
(1995)This study investigates the role of codeswitching in classroom interactions involving teachers and pupils in Transkei Junior Secondary schools. Codeswitching practices, the alternate use by teachers in these schools of two ... -
An investigation of the impact of working in an international school context on the identities of English-speaking teachers at the International English School in Italy.
(2006)Many educational researchers (e.g. Jansen 2001) argue that not enough is known about how teachers view their careers and identities as teachers and how they adapt to new educational policies and teaching situations. ... -
An investigation of the representation of females in a popular magazine directed at teenagers.
(2002)In this study I investigate gender representations in a South African magazine directed at a teenage female readership. It begins with a survey of sociolinguistic understandings of the relationship between language and ... -
IsiZulu-speaking educators' attitudes towards the role of isiZulu in education in Durban.
(2001)The South African Schools Act (1996) is now in place to allow the governing bodies to decide on language policies for their schools. This has come about as a means to redress the past situation whereby policies were ... -
Izwe alithuthuki by Phuzekhemisi as sung in KwaZulu-Natal : maskandi song as social protest analysed as an oral-style text.
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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 ...