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Showing 1 to 20 of 214 for “"African languages"”.
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L2 Investment in African languages: a multiple case study of successful white learners of African languages in post-apartheid South Africa
… interviewed and analysed 12 cases of white South African (wSAn) learners in the post-apartheid era who reached a high proficiency in an indigenous African language (AfL) as a second or additional language (L2). The phenomenon of study, L2 AfL learning (L2AfLL) by wSAns, was characterised as a form …
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Curriculum 2005 and (post)modernising African languages : the quantum leap
… cognitive and psycho-social development of the African child is also discussed. My argument is that the low status of the ALs is visible in the textbooks that are in schools. With the introduction of the new Curriculum, there arises a need to write new AL textbooks. As the expertise is lacking …
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Analysing the promotion of indigenous African languages through social networks in South Africa
Languages remain a tool that allows human beings to communicate and provides foundation for a vigorous and multicultural interaction. The introduction of platforms that aid communication across different communities caters for languages to flourish. Coming second to emails as the most popular …
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Decolonising the media : the use of indigenous African languages in South African television advertisements
Advertisements in African languages are generally confined to radio, and in that medium are factual, dialogic and direct. When used in television advertising, however, South Africa’s indigenous languages play a less informative role, being employed rather to index a concretised African essence, …
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Recurrent neural network language models in the context of under-resourced South African languages
… these triumphs have been concentrated in languages with significant resources such as large datasets. Thus, many languages, which are commonly referred to as under-resourced languages, have received little attention and have yet to benefit from recent advances. This investigation aims to …
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Development and empowerment of previously-marginalised languages: a case of African languages in South Africa
… is a multilingual country with 11 official languages and 9 of these languages are Indigenous African languages. The South African government has developed policies and created an environment for these languages to be developed. National and provincial language policies have been adopted and …
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The use of early-grade reading benchmarks to improve the efficacy of assessment in African languages
… the establishment of reading benchmarks in African languages. These benchmarks are a measure of grade-level reading proficiency that can be used to monitor progress at the national, provincial, district and school level. One way the benchmarks could be used productively at the classroom …
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Language contact in two border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana. Lexical borrowings from French, English and African languages
… where English and French are official state languages and Dagara is the shared local language. Dagara is a language spoken by about 1,400,000 people in the Northwestern corner of Ghana, the Southwestern part of Burkina Faso and the Northeastern part of Côte d’Ivoire. This partitioning is a …
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“Implications of South Africa’s new language policy with special references to the implementation of African languages as media of instruction”
… of South Africa, with special reference to African languages as possible media of instruction, at pre-tertiary level of education. The most critical and relevant linguistic aspects examined here, takes into account the issue of multilingualism in education or multilingual education …
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The use of Translanguaging in assisting educators to teach African languages: A case study of Tshwane South Education District, Pretoria
… country with too many more spoken indigenous languages. It is also one of the fastest developing countries on the African continent. This multilingual nature coupled with migration from neighbouring countries, presents serious challenges for language planners and education authorities, …
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An investigation into the use of digital media to promote indigeneous African Languages: the case of digital terrestrial television on SABC
… play an important role in promoting marginalised languages, particularly in the broadcasting sector, where they play second fiddle to English language. The unequal status in South Africa has resulted in increased social isolation and discrimination of indigenous African languages, the erosion of …
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The impact of social media on the development and promotion of Indigenous African Languages: a case study of the Rural University
… on the development and promotion of indigenous African languages at a rural university. The study adopts a qualitative approach in order to attain holistic results. Data collected from social media platforms, namely; Facebook and WhatsApp from the students‟ chat groups were analysed within the …
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Feasibility of individualised synthetic speech for children with complex communication needs in three South African languages (South African English, Afrikaans, and isiXhosa)
… natural-sounding synthetic voices for South African children with CCN by using open-source speech synthesis software, taking into consideration the cultural assumptions and ideologies that influence the development of AAC systems for individuals with diverse backgrounds. The four primary …
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De-creating Language Borders at the University of Cape Town: “The Fall of English” and the Rise of African Languages in Education
… translanguaging and the development of African languages in education, this thesis distills ethnographic data to argue that language borders need to be reevaluated in a quest for conviviality informed by the universality of incompleteness, where fluidity, interconnection, and …
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Strategies that can be used to promote the use of indigenous African languages for teaching and learning in schools: an exploratory case study of isiZulu
… can be used to promote the use of indigenous African languages for teaching and learning in the General Education and Training (GET) and (Further Education and Training (FET) phases of schooling in South Africa. The motivation for the study came from the constitutional recognition given to …
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Learning South African languages : the historical origins of standard Xhosa , and the uses to which the written form of the language was put c. 1770-1935
… written Xhosa, and how the written form of the languages was used variously by travel writers, missionaries, converts, interpreters, indigenous speakers, the educated African elite, and professional philologists between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. The outcome of the uses …
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Nsiyeto eka swinwana swa swirungulwana swa Xitsonga
Department of African Languages
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The impact of the Customary Law Marriages Act (Act 120 of 1998) on the prevelence of divorce among the Vhavenda in the Vhembe District of Limpopo Province in South Africa
MER Mathivha Centre for African Languages, Arts and Culture
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U tsireledzwa ha luambo lwa Tshivenda na u livhiswa halwo lufuni vhuponi ha Beitbridge Zimbabwe
M. E. R. Mathivha Centre for African Languages, Arts and Culture
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Major Old High German clause structures in Isidor and Tatian
… Dept. of Linguistics and Oriental and African Languages, 1969
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