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The history of the amaHlubi tribe in the izibongo of its kings.
(1992)Histories of many non-literate societies in Africa have been reconstructed by analysing their oral traditions. This thesis attempts to show that the forgotten history of the amaHlubi Tribe can be re-constructed by analysing ... -
Home language and English language ability in South Africa: Insights from new data.
(Southern African Applied Linguistics Association & The Linguistics Society of Southern Africa., 2010-03-11)In this paper we analyse data on language ability collected in a new nationally representative household survey, the National Income Dynamics Study, which captures information on reading and writing ability, both in the ... -
Houding teenoor Afrikaans, 'n meningsopname onder Afrikaanse tieners in KwaZulu-Natalse skole.
(1997)Abstract not available. -
Idea generation and planning time in second language academic writing : an empirical investigation at Howard College campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
(2015)Ideas generation is a cognitive process which underlies the production of coherent writing. However, little is known about the nature of this process and how it is affected by different preparatory conditions. The current ... -
The implications for classroom practice of the outcomes-based education model for teaching and learning : an evaluation of modes of implementation in KwaZulu-Natal schools.
(2004)With the advent of political and social democracy in South Africa in 1994 came the need to restructure education so that it would reflect the new mulitcultural democracy, redress the inequalities of the past and ensure ... -
The implications of e-text resource development for Southern African literary studies in terms of analysis and methodology.
(1999)This study was aimed at investigating established electronic text and information projects and resources to inform the design and implementation of a South African electronic text resource. Literature was surveyed on a ... -
The influence of oral culture and English on the academic and social interaction among tertiary students for whom English is not a mother - tongue.
(1995)The oral background, ability in English and academic and social interaction of the non mother-tongue student was the focus of this study. The oral background of the African student is an important consideration as it ... -
Interactional sociolinguistics : insights and applications.
(1987)The research reported in this thesis is basically applied in purpose. However the theoretical siqnificance of interactional sociolinquistics is explored by showinq that it is based on a philosophy of science which ... -
Interkulturele kommunikasie en literatuuronderrig in 'n multikulturele konteks : 'n kritiese analise van Taxi en Keerpunt.
(2001)The aim of this study is to determine how literature teaching in a multicultural context can be used effectively to promote intercultural communication and understanding in South Africa, a relatively young democracy in ... -
An investigation into teacher-elicited Zulu mother-tongue peer-tutoring by Zulu-speaking pupils in an English only classroom at Southlands Secondary School.
(1999)The end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 triggered unprecedented changes in the country's institutions including the school. In the city of Durban one such change was the influx of Zulu-speaking pupils into previously ... -
An investigation into the classroom related schemata of trainee teachers educated at racially segregated schools.
(1997)This thesis reports on an investigation of the schemata of trainee teachers from a range of different ethnic and language groups in KwaZulu-Natal who had been educated in racially segregated school systems. Informed by the ... -
An investigation into the correlation between English sound formation and signification.
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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 factors influencing maintenance and shift of the Gujarati language in South Africa.
(1997)Abstract not available. -
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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Kinyarwanda locative applicatives and the Minimal Link Condition.
(Southern African Applied Linguistics Association & The Linguistics Society of Southern Africa., 2005)The two objects of ditransitive locative applicatives in Kinyarwanda display asymmetrical behaviour with respect to syntactic movement. Whereas the applied object (the goal) of a locative can be extracted in relative ...