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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"and literacy studies."”.
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Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacies in Architecture Studio Classes
… ethnographic study investigates the multimodal literacy practices and rhetorical strategies of undergraduate architecture students and studio professors in the first-year, third-year, and fifth-year studio classes of a five-year B. Arch. program. As they assume the disciplinary identity of …
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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
… 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 …
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Ecocritical English: A Subject-led Approach to Sustainability
… like these, schools should teach as if place and planet matter. Despite the relevance of planetary health to every school subject, issues of environmental sustainability are marginalised in mainstream education. I argue that subject teachers should consider the distinctive contribution of …
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“They know exactly with whom to speak German and with whom English”: Grade-R children's language and literacy practices in the context of the linguistic and literacy repertoires and ideologies of four Cape Town bilingual families with German as a heritage language
… is the reality of most South African children, and the transfer and maintenance of heritage languages is an important topic in the field of language and literacy studies. A range of different factors come into play in bilingual and multilingual parents' decisions about how to raise 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
… 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 Swahili programme. The sample comprises four UCT learners (mixed Ll …
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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
… reading, independent readers, reading models and Cambourne's reading conditions, which were the focus of the research. The grade six classroom, in which the reading conditions, mainly ""immersion"" and ""engagement"", were to be enhanced, consisted of 42 learners and one teacher. The …
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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
… education, in this instance focusing on grades 2 and 5. Bearing in mind that English is not the learners' first language, this dissertation firstly attempts to discover some of the possible effects this could have on learners concerning their acquisition of English as a second language, and their …
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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
… 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 teacher education benefit educational …
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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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