Doctoral Degrees (Languages and Arts Education)
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An investigation into postgraduate students’ experiences of academic writing: a case study of a university in Nigeria.
(2020)The process of producing academic text, especially at the postgraduate level is challenging for non-native speakers of the English Language. Although there is a robust body of literature globally which has sought to ... -
Lecturers’ experiences of the implementation of an English medium of instruction in a teachers’ college in Zimbabwe.
(2018)The wave of internationalisation of higher education has rocked many nations in the world, such that most have adopted English as the language of communication. English is spreading rapidly as medium of instruction (EMI), ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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) ... -
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 ... -
Orion, Ram's-horn and Labyrinth : quest and creativity in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf, Agaat and Memorandum.
(2014)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 ... -
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 ... -
Critiquing representation : the case of an academic literacy course in an engineering faculty in a South African university.
(2012)What does it mean to be academically literate? Responses to this question have led to an explosion of research in the field of applied linguistics, yet the diversity of definitions proposed in the literature for the concept ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Changing management : a case study of power relations, culture and communication in industry with reference to a company town set-up : the Canestone Sugar Mill, 1960 to 1998.
(2002)Sugar production in Natal agricultural estates and industrial mills began in the 1800's. The Canestone Sugar Mill and Estates (now 145 years old) which is the focus of this study, is still in operation although renovations ... -
The construction of egalitarian masculinities in the midlands of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2002)The political, historical and legal changes, which have taken place in our country since 1994, have challenged men and women to learn anew, to readjust and embrace change. Men and women have been forced to reexamine gender ... -
Classroom talk : lowered affective filters and ESL proficiency in arts and culture classrooms.
(2007)This case study explores the impact of a specially designed programme of communicative strategies: role-play, group-work, pair-work, and information gap activities, on English second language proficiency. The aim of this ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
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