Browsing Masters Degrees (Languages, Linguistics and Academic Literacy) by Title
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"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 ... -
A sociolinguistic investigation of sources of interactional asynchrony and synchrony in intercultural medical consultations in the medium of English in an urban setting in South Africa.
(1995)This thesis examines sources of interactional asynchrony and synchrony in intercultural medical consultations between South African English speaking doctors and Zulu-English speaking patients in an urban setting in South ... -
A sociolinguistic investigation of the status of Isizulu at former house of delegates high schools in the greater Durban area.
(2003)This study examines the status of isiZulu from the perspective of English L1, isiZulu L1 learners and educators at former House of Delegates high schools in the greater Durban area. South Africa's Language in Education ... -
Standard versus non-standard isiZulu : a comparative study between urban and rural learners' performance and attitude.
(2009)In this study, standard and non-standard isiZulu varieties are compared and contrasted. While standard isiZulu is proved to be treasured, it is not very well known or spoken among young urban and rural isiZulu speaking ... -
A study of J.M. Coetzee's novel, The master of Petersburg, with particular reference to its confessional aspects.
(2000)The dissertation focuses on lM. Coetzee's novel The Master of Petersburg, read as a confessional text and discussed in the light of theories of the western tradition of confession. By way of introduction some of the themes ... -
A study of the perceptions of the language-in-education policy held by Zulu speaking parents in a former model C senior primary school.
(2002)This study investigates the perceptions of Zulu speaking parents of the new language-in-education policy. The context for the study, which is explained in Chapter one, is an ex-Model C senior primary school in KwaZulu-Natal. ... -
Teaching academic writing in a South African context : an evaluation of the drafting-responding process used to develop the academic writing of students in a first year media course at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2006)The provision of written lecturer feedback at the draft stage of a draft-response-redraft process is an extensively used tool in the process genre approach to teaching academic writing. It is also regarded as an important ...