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(University of the Free State, 2023-09-29)The Covid-19 pandemic brought about a profound transformation in the landscape of higher education. This special issue delves into the complex and far-reaching impact of the pandemic on academic continuity, with a particular ...
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(Stellenbosch University, 2023-08)Research demonstrates that teachers’ expectations could influence learners’ reading achievements, both positively and negatively. Specifically, teachers’ expectations determine the level and type of instruction they would ...
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(Routledge, 2024)Following the sea change that led South Africa into the democratic era in 1994, theatre-makers have explored the resonances and limitations of The Tempest as an expression of local realities. In this article, I provide a ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-12-18)BACKGROUND: In the education sector, technologies are (or can be) repurposed in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) to facilitate teaching and learning. However, this shift may impact on learners’ access to reading ...
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Improving the reading proficiency of mature students through a task-based language teaching approach (AOSIS, 2023-08-29)BACKGROUND: Mature age admission at universities is increasing rapidly all over the world and Ghanaian universities, both private and public, are no exception. The language proficiency of the admitted mature students, ...
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(Sage, 2024-03)The purpose of this article is to critically consider the roles that academic literacy facilitators fulfil in exposing students to Global Citizenship Education (GCE). In university disciplines, literacies are primary tools ...
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(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This study explores a transformative method to revise an academic literacy study guide in a Humanities faculty in South Africa. The methodology includes a critical literature review, positioning the study within the ...
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Cultural entanglement, displacement and contemporary Durban in Imraan Coovadia’s High Low In-between (Routledge, 2023)This article focuses on Imraan Coovadia’s High Low In-between and investigates how the novel’s join protagonists, Nafisa and Shakeer, navigate their contemporary Durban. The mother and son, I point out, present two disparate ...
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(Wiley, 2023-09)Post-apartheid South Africa is characterized by growing feelings of pain, anger and frustration amongst black communities triggered by pervasive social inequalities. This has given birth to a new form of political and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)This study explores the multifaceted aspects of educational subtitling in higher education, focusing on its perceived value, student viewing patterns, the use of plain English, and its application in multilingual initiatives. ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-08-31)The study is an analysis of the reaction of students in a faculty of natural and agricultural sciences (NAS) to subtitles and also includes an investigation of their responses thereto. Reception of and responses to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Metadiscourse refers to linguistic resources that are used to organise a text and also connect with readers. The use of metadiscourse markers in academic writing helps students produce coherent texts. This study explored ...
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(Sage, 2023-01)The purpose of this investigation is to frame Global North colonialism in southern and eastern Africa as ontological appropriation. In the article’s conceptual framework, ontological appropriation is colonial claims to ...
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(Common Ground Research Networks, 2022-11)Coercive Management Behavior (CMB) exists in universities as it does in cooperate entities. Consequently, CMB constrains research productivity and pedagogic commitments and can induce epistemicide. In response to CMB, this ...
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(Hindawi, 2023-05)This article analyzes first-year natural science students’ experiences of discourse and devaluation as new members of the Natural and Agricultural Sciences Faculty at the University of Pretoria (UP). This study aims to ...
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(Unisa Press, 2022)Various attempts have been made to assist the multitude of South African learners who experience literacy challenges, particularly critical reading challenges, in the classroom. Although a number of critical literacy ...
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(Education Association of South Africa, 2022-11)Educators’ reading comprehension instructional practices have been identified as 1 of the factors that contribute to learners’ poor reading comprehension performance. To this end, several studies were conducted to identify ...
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(Common Ground Research Networks, 2022-08)While well-resourced schools have the advantage of better equipping their learners for online learning, which includes online reading, learners in rural and township schools are at a disadvantage, resulting in the academic ...
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(Society for Research and Knowledge Management, 2022-08)The aim of article is to analyse the remote teaching and learning experiences of students, as expressed in online discussions among firstyear students at a South African university, to enhance understanding of how learning ...
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(Stellenbosch University, Library and Information Service, 2022)Interstices are those residual, left-over, spaces associated with movement across and between urban forms. Interstices in the business district of Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa, represent the insurgence of the lower levels ...