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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"isiZulu"”.
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Exploring grade 10 isizulu home language teachers’ strategies when teaching isizulu novels in the Pinetown District
… probed the practices and strategies of Grade 10 isiZulu Home Language teachers who work in disadvantaged, rural areas. Many studies have shown that there is a link between the learners’ ability to read and academic performance. This study was an attempt to understand how educators teach and …
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Grammars for generating isiXhosa and isiZulu weather bulletin verbs
… of generating weather text in isiXhosa and isiZulu - we restricted our text to only verbs in order to ensure a manageable scope. In particular, we have developed a corpus of weather sentences in order to determine verb features. We then created context free verbal grammar rules using an …
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Ucwaningo ngemithelela yezilimi ezimbili: isiSwazi nesiNdebele ezinganeni ezifunda isiZulu esifundazweni saseMpumalanga
… umonakalo olimini lwesiZulu. Izingane ezifunda isiZulu eSifundazweni saseMpumalanga zizithola zibhekene nenkinga yokungaqondisisi into eziyifundayo, eziyikhulumayo kanye naleyo eziyibhalayo. Indlela othisha abaqeqeshwa ngayo kanye nabafundisa ngayo inomthelela endleleni abafundi abafunda ngayo …
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Foundations for reusable and maintainable surface realisers for isiXhosa and isiZulu
… with simple and/or well-documented grammars. IsiZulu and isiXhosa, two of the largest South African languages by first language speakers, have not received a lot of attention in the field despite the potential impact of NLG systems for their speakers. The existing NLG systems created for these …
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The translation and validation of the LittlEARS auditory questionnaire in isiZulu
… translate the English version of the LEAQ into isiZulu, and (2) validate the isiZulu translation. Methods: The study aimed to (1) translate the English version of the LEAQ into isiXhosa and (2) validate the isiZulu translation. Translation Process: (1) Forward translation from English to …
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Language maintenance and shift: a survey of isiZulu speakers residing in Soshanguve
… the language maintenance and shift amongst the isiZulu language speakers residing in Soshanguve, a township in which Sotho-Tswana languages (or Sepitori) dominate. The most current South African Census offers quantifiable insight into the variety of this area. With more than 400,000 populations, …
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The concurrent validity of an isiZulu Bournemouth Questionnaire in comparison to its English original
Submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master’s Degree in Technology: Chiropractic, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2018.
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Attitudes of Zulu matriculants in the uMlazi township towards isiZulu as a school subject
… attitudes of the uMlazi matriculants towards isiZulu as a school subject. My focus is on isiZulu language, which is one of the official languages; this will then bring in the issues of language poBcy in Black South African schools. IsiZulu will then be compared with the dominant language, …
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The Ingwavuma dialect of isiZulu with special reference to Kwanyawo, Kwamngomezulu and Kwamathenjwa areas
… looking into this dialect is to compare it with isiZulu language and to look into its morphology, phonetics, phono logy and semantics as compared to that of isiZulu and siSwati languages. This work will be of great importance to other scholars because they will learn more about the dialect of …
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Die rol van minderheidstaalmedia in taalbeplanningprosesse met verwysing na isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sepedi en Setswana
… erkenning en uitbreiding van onder andere isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sepedi en Setswana, laat tradisionele taalbeplanningsprosesse ʼn leemte. Tradisionele taalbeplanningsprosesse, die bo-na-onder-benadering, behels taalbeplanningsituasies waar mense met mag en gesag taalverwante besluite vir groepe …
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African authors' perceptions of women's achievements : exploring cultural expectations in selected isiZulu literary texts
In indigenous African societies, cultural expectations compel women to restrict themselves from excelling in whatever they do as a way of conforming to prevailing customary expectations. This is because those women who are said to disregard cultural expectations by aspring to achieve more than …
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African male voices: representation of women images in selected isiZulu literary texts; reality or idealism?
… representation of women images in the selected isiZulu literary texts. From the late 1940’s up to 1994 South Africans struggled under the apartheid regime. During this period of time Black women were doubly oppressed by their patriarchal and traditional cultures as well as by the apartheid …
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Some aspects of word-formation in isiZulu : with special reference to morphological and Lexical processes
… has received very little attention in isiZulu in the past. This situation has been caused by the approach of word analysis which was pioneered by grammarians like Doke (1956), Nyembezi (1965) and others that followed in their steps. The main aim of this study is therefore to put …
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Investigating the teaching of isiZulu folktales in the Johannesburg East and South District secondary schools
This study examined the teaching of isiZulu folktales at some Johannesburg East and South district secondary schools. The purpose if this study was to determine the methods used by isiZulu teachers in their classrooms when they teach folktales. The research questions were concerned with the …
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Politeness in context: the case of apologies and requests of a South African isiZulu speaking community
… study was to investigate politeness within the isiZulu speaking community. The study focused on the understanding of politeness within the target community (Umlazi Township) and whether this understanding has changed over the past generation. It also examined if males and females exhibit and …
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Error analysis: a study of errors committed by isiZulu speaking learners of English in selected schools
The objective of this study was to determine learner errors in both rural and urban schools. The first aim was to determine through literature the types of errors and their probable causes. The second aim was to conduct an investigation into errors committed by learners and experienced by educators …
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Role of close vowel in juxtaposed lexemes in Sesotho and IsiZulu : a para-morphophonological aspectual comparison
… background to the study of vowels in Sesotho and isiZulu. Highlights through vowel charts have been displayed to show positional differences. Chapter three concentrates on the origin of SeSotho and isiZulu vowels phonemes. It further looks at the historical background of the close vowels and the …
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Imifino yasendle, imifino isiZulu : the ethnobotany, historical ecology and nutrition of traditional vegetables in KwaZulu-Natal
Traditional wild or weedy leafy green vegetables are an important food source in many parts of Africa, and there have been several recent calls across the continent for interventions promoting the use of these resources for their nutritional values. In South Africa relatively little research …
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A case study of multimodal and authoritative meaning making in grade 5 isiZulu, English, and Natural Sciences lessons in a quintile 1 primary school
… and authoritative meaning making in grade 5 isiZulu, English, and Natural Sciences lessons in a quintile 1 primary school in KwaZulu-Natal, uMzinyathi Municipality in Nqutu. This study investigated the nature of classroom discourse in each of the subject areas and the opportunities learners …
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The provision of interpreting services in isiZulu and South African Sign Language in selected courts in KwaZulu-Natal
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Technology: Language Practice, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2016.
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