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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Multilingual country"”.
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Selective auditory attention and speech-in-noise perception in English second language learners
… perception of young ESL learners in a multilingual country such as South Africa. Aim: To determine the selective auditory attention abilities and speech-in-noise perception of seven-to-eight-year-old ESL learners in a multilingual country and compare their results to those of English …
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Development and empowerment of previously-marginalised languages: a case of African languages in South Africa
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 …
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Intersectional sameness and difference in psychotherapy: Women of colour s experiences of the therapeutic alliance
… process. In South Africa, a diverse and multilingual country with high levels of inequality, access to healthcare services, poor quality of healthcare, and discrimination in healthcare settings are persistent issues. Women of colour are often disproportionately affected by these health …
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Structural changes observed in the German language as used in Namibia: A study on the basis of texts from the Allgemeinen Zeitung
… language of Namibia. Nowadays, Namibia is a multilingual country, in which German, Afrikaans and various other languages constitute the national languages. Several studies on the German language as used in Namibia have already been conducted, but these only examined the change in the lexis. …
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If you have the word in Portuguese why are you going to use it in English? Language ideologies of Brazilian Portuguese speaker studying English as a foreign language in Cape Town
… spoken language in Brazil. In spite of being a multilingual country, several policies guided the country towards monolingualism. A bill has been recently proposed by the then congressman Aldo Rebelo, in 1999, and approved in 2007 that regards English as a threat to the Brazilian Po1tuguese …
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Afrikaans in democratic South Africa :a survey of scholary contributions and tendentious reporting regarding the status of Afrikaans and the other official languages of South Africa
… patios. As it takes its rightful place in our multilingual country, one in which the playing fields are levelled for all indigenous languages, major processes in society will determine its future and to what extent Afrikaans would function as an African language. For this to happen the language …
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A Multiethnic Approach of Stakeholder Involvement to Set Priorities for Oral Health Research
… or differ.<br/>In Malaysia, a multiethnic and multilingual country, significant oral health disparities have been reported across ethnic groups. For example, the Malaysian National Oral Health Survey (2017) documented a higher prevalence of dental caries among Chinese children (30.7%), the …
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DEMOCRATISATION OF THE CLASSROOM: AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ LANGUAGE PRACTICES IN SELECTED MULTILINGUAL CLASSROOMS OF CHIBOMBO DISTRICT
Considering that Zambia is a multilingual country and that all the classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6 …
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Democratisation of the classroom:an analysis of teachers' language practices in selected multilingual classrooms of Chibombo, district.
Considering that Zambia is a multilingual country and that all the classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6 …
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DEMOCRATISATION OF THE CLASSROOM: AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ LANGUAGE PRACTICES IN SELECTED MULTILINGUAL CLASSROOMS OF CHIBOMBO DISTRICT
Considering that Zambia is a multilingual country and that all the classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6 …
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Democratisation of the classroom:an analysis of teachers' language practices in selected multilingual classrooms of Chibombo, district.
Considering that Zambia is a multilingual country and that all the classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6 …
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The study to explore the nature and extent of culture specific nursing care in the regions G, D and H of KwaZulu-Natal
… nursing. As South Africa is a multicultural and multilingual country there is a need for an attempt to be made to the teach nurses about some of the cultures, values and beliefs of the different peoples. The respondents were agreeable to the fact that many advantages would be achieved by …
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On the issues of language contact and language shift in Tok Pisin - focusing on two "non-standard" varieties: highlands pidgin and anglicised pidgin.
… as the virtual universal lingua franca in this multilingual country where over 850 indigenous languages are spoken today (Nekitel 1998). The term Tok Pisin covers a large number of varieties due to the various social and linguistic backgrounds of its speakers. Traditionally, the rural varieties …
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Ideology, language attitudes and status of Punjabi in Pakistan
Pakistan is a multiethnic and multilingual country; approximately 72 languages are spoken there including Punjabi, Urdu, Sindhi, Pashto, Balochi, Brahavi, Saraiki, and Shina. Punjabi is the language of 44% of the Pakistanis, but it has no official status and is not used in educational or …
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Using semiotic resources to teach and assess scientific concepts in a bilingual Namibian primary school: A socio-cultural discourse analysis
… 4 and beyond in English. Despite Namibia being a multilingual country, the Namibian monolingualist Language in Education Policy (LiEP) makes no provision to accommodate multilingual practices and to fulfill the linguistic needs of learners from linguistically diverse backgrounds, who lack …
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Translation and Adaptation of the Self Assessment of Communication (SAC) and Significant Other Assessment of Communication (SOAC) into Afrikaans
… in English and standardised for a developed country population, the United States of America (USA). Thus, to make the outcome measures more relevant to a multicultural and multilingual country like South Africa (SA), the most practical solution is to translate and adapt the measure for the SA …