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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Siswati"”.
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Portrayal of women in SiSwati drama
This study looks at the portrayal of women in siSwati drama. The main aim is to reveal how women are portrayed in siSwati drama. In real life women are usually portrayed negatively. This is due to cultural directives that reveal woman as inferior beings. This affects our young children who read …
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Language purism and prescriptivism in an African context : a case study of a siSwati radio programme 'Nasi-ke siSwati'
… correctness. The data base is a series of a siSwati radio programme, called Nasi-ke siSwati 'Here is (genuine) siSwati' hosted by Jim Gama, known as 'Mbhokane'. I try to assess his attitudes to what he considers 'inferior' use of the language, with the aim of understanding what issues are at …
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Rethinking the African language curriculum (with special reference to SiSwati) : a theoretical and empirical study
… a deeply negative attitude towards the way SiSwati is being taught, resulting in negative attitudes towards the language itself. Other findings pointed to a resistance to the cultural content of the curriculum as dictated by the power elite in Swaziland, the outdated emphasis on linguistics …
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The impact of Siswati L1 on the acquisition of academic english by tertiary students in Swaziland
… this study I investigate the interface between siSwati as an L1 and the acquisition of Academic English by students of the tertiary institutions of Swaziland. I examine five theoretical frameworks which are germane to L2 acquisition – error analysis, interdependency, transfer, interlanguage and …
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A woman has no mouth' : a feminist critique of the portrayal of woman in siSwati prescribed books
The study examines sexism in siSwati school prescribed books. The study takes the view that textbooks as cultural artifacts are important in the transmission of cultural attitudes, values and ideology, and therefore influence the gendering of identities. The selected prescribed books for …
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The Ingwavuma dialect of isiZulu with special reference to Kwanyawo, Kwamngomezulu and Kwamathenjwa areas
… speak the dialect that is influenced by siSwati language. Those living at Ophonweni area speak the language that is influenced by Thonga language. They call that language "Isigonde". There are those people who live at Lundini and KwaLindizwe who speak siSwati but most of them do not …
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Analysing the promotion of indigenous African languages through social networks in South Africa
… this study focused on five namely; isiZulu, siSwati, Sepedi, Tshivenḓa, and Xitsonga. The languages selected are spoken in three different provinces. IsiZulu has the most speakers, followed by Sepedi, Xitsonga, siSwati, and Tshivenḓa, respectively. These languages have been equally promoted …
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The Implementation of the South African Language Policy by Local Government. A Case Study.
… languages: Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, and SiSwati. This study aims to investigate the implementation of the South African language policy by a local municipality in Mpumalanga. The data presented in this thesis were gathered using semi-structured interviews with executive staff members as …
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Subword segmental neural language generation for Nguni languages
… Africa -- isiXhosa, isiZulu, isiNdebele, and Siswati. The Nguni languages are agglutinative and conjunctively written, so words are formed by stringing together morphemes. We design neural models that suit the morphological complexity of the Nguni languages by explicitly modelling the …
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Exploring a common learning, teaching and assessment framework for isiNguni languages in South Africa
… viz. isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu and siSwati. In order to meet this primary aim of the study, a number of objectives had to be attained. Firstly, some linguistic similarities, discrepancies and complexities based on recently published terminology documents were compared between the …
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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
… 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 home language (HL) are referred to as amaXhosa. However, as a teacher of isiXhosa HL, I have observed that there is often a mismatch …
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Language practice as an asset in a multilingual and multicultural context.
… which are Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, IsiNdebele, Siswati, Xitsonga, Tshivenda, IsiZulu and IsiXhosa, are now embraced as official languages of South Africa, effectively meaning that communication must also be made available in these languages. It became pertinent to investigate linguistic issues …