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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Applied Language and Literacy Studies"”.
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Exploring the impact of (im)materiality on the literacy and meaning-making practices of first year students at a South African distance education institution: implications for support
… for everyone, irrespective of location. Teaching and learning are delivered through modern electronic technologies, based on the assumption that students have access to and can use these technologies. The affordances of the objects that distance education students utilise as they engage in key …
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Textual and social aspects of accessing high school economics and management sciences (EMS) : a case study of literacy, learning and identity in a social semiotic domain
The focus in this study is on literacy and learning in Economics and Management Sciences (EMS). EMS comprises integrations of language, mathematics, social elements and practical actions. The research identified ways of constructing knowledge in the EMS genre and evaluated application of principles …
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'Heteroglossia in IsiXhosa/English bilingual children's writing: a case study of Grade 6 IsiXhosa Home Language in a Township School
… African constitution recognises 11 official languages, of which isiXhosa is one. IsiXhosa belongs to the Nguni language family which also comprises of isiZulu, isiNdebele, and siSwati. IsiXhosa is mostly spoken in the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces. Those that regard isiXhosa as their …
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Temporal representation in narratives of forced removals : a narrative analysis of life story texts
… of forced removals. It is based on an understanding that there is much that we can learn from the lives of 'ordinary people' and that the oral medium is a rich source of understanding other aspects of society. Chapter 1 sketches the background of this study, and the socio-political context …
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Talking democracy in Grade 7 : a discourse analysis of SRC practice in a primary school
… extent democracy education is an identifiable and teachable concept in Curriculum 2005 and to find pedagogically useful ways of conceptualising and teaching active democratic participation. I chose a two-staged explorative qualitative research framework, informed by the New Literacy Studies and …
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The application of some second language teaching/learning principles in multimedia language design : a case study of a multimedia approach to an undergraduate course in Swahili
… that takes place in the Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) classroom in the Department of Linguistics and Southern African Languages at the University of Cape Town. It also studies how a small sample of students make adjustments in language learning with the help of the multimedia …
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Museums and labelling : differences, discursive influences and professional identities
… origins in the interest of the researcher in the literacy practices involved in the production og museum labels. Three displays at the South African Museum, Go Bats!, Mineral Mania and Fossil Stories, were selected for close study because they presented key examples of the differences the …
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Enhancing the reading conditions in a multilingual grade six class : exploring the possibilities
… a grade six class with learners from different language backgrounds, but taught in English as a medium of instruction"". The conceptual framework helps to carve a path through the maze of definitions about reading, independent readers, reading models and Cambourne's reading conditions, which …
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Qualitative study of some effects of using English as a language of instruction at Standard 2 and 5 in the Botswana education system, where learners are not primary language speakers of English
… purpose of this study is to address the issue of language in education policy in Botswana where English is used as a language of instruction at the lower levels of primary education, in this instance focusing on grades 2 and 5. Bearing in mind that English is not the learners' first language, this …
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Towards an inclusive language curriculum: re-orienting textbooks images and messages in respect of gender
Having ratified and signed many international conventions and declarations on mainstreaming gender issues, Lesotho was compelled to review some of its policies and laws to ensure equitable distribution of resources to both female and male citizens in the name of democracy and development. This …
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Reading children : how children and selectors perceive and construct the reading of fiction in two South African schools
… find out how children saw themselves as readers and what their own feelings were about reading; and to speculate on the extent to which policies are changing or can be changed. In order to do this I have looked at the situation in two schools with very different histories in the Western Cape. I …
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Why won't they learn? : a contrastive study of literature teaching in two Cape Town high school classrooms
… around the world. South Africa is no exception, and students are expected to study novels, poetry and plays as part of their school language curriculum. There are many debates about the best way to teach these texts in the classroom. However what is often overlooked is that reading literature, …
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Spatially coherent solutions of damped-driven nonlinear evolution equations and reaction-diffusion system
Bibliography: leaves 128-134.
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English as a weapon of power : a double-edged sword
… of the growth of English as an international and an intranational lingua franca with a focus on the South African debate about language and socio-economic empowerment. This exploration is carried out through an extended review of some of the theories that have challenged the notion that the …
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Die hantering van identiteite in Afrikaanse voorgeskrewe romans in Suid-Afrika na apartheid : 'n kritiese evaluering = The treatment of identities in Afrikaans prescribed novels in post-apartheid South Africa : a critical appraisal
… It helps shape their perceptions of reality and teaches them what to expect from the world and the people around them. Therefore, it is important to do a communicative analysis of the literature that is prescribed for schools, in order to determine how identities are ascribed and negotiated, …
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The differences in medium of instruction for the lower primary phase in teacher education and schools in Namibia, with reference to the Kavango educational region, are a barrier to effective teaching and learning
… to investigate whether the difference in the language of teaching in teacher education and the language of teaching in the lower primary phase is a barrier for effective teaching and learning in the targeted institutions. Furthermore, would additional focus on mother tongue education in …
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The change of language and the language of change : a consideration of some of the assumptions behind non-governmental language planning projects : implications for language in education policy
Language planning and language policy are currently being debated by both politicians and educationists. Language policy is seen by both Afrikaner nationalists and some progressive educationists as the key to political and economic power. This dissertation argues that language policy-making alone …
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An examination of classroom practices for the development of writing in English as a second language in a Malawian primary school
… out of an awareness of the history of Malawi' s language in education policy from the era of British colonialism to the present multilingual era. English is given a high status in schools despite the fact that many more teachers and pupils speak local languages. Malawi's new language in education …
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An analysis of communication between health-care workers and Xhosa-speaking patients in a Cape Town hospital, from the perspective of language cognition and inter-cultural communication
… not communicated properly due to differences in language between medical practitioners and patients. In particular the thesis is concerned with English-speaking doctors and their Xhosa-speaking patients in Cape Town. This thesis studies interactions between ten Xhosa patients and five …
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A woman has no mouth' : a feminist critique of the portrayal of woman in siSwati prescribed books
… the transmission of cultural attitudes, values and ideology, and therefore influence the gendering of identities. The selected prescribed books for SecondarylHigh School level in Swaziland are investigated for discrepancies in the treatment of male and female characters.
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