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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 Stellenbosch, Education Faculty, Department of Curriculum Studies, 2014)This paper focuses on the results of a questionnaire administered to students who wrote the Test of Academic Literacy for Postgraduate Students (TALPS) between 2008 and 2010. The purpose of the questionnaire was to elicit ...
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(University of the Free State, Faculty of Education, 2015)Applied linguists should strive to ensure that the tests they design and use are not only fair and socially acceptable, but also have positive effects – this, in light of the fact that tests can sometimes have far-reaching ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2019)There appears to be a weak alignment between manuals on using hand gestures in oral presentations, theoretical sources on gesture production, and empirical studies on dimensions of gesture processing and use. Much of the ...
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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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(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2015)The aim of this article is to explore the power relations portrayed through the bodily spatial interaction of the characters of Milla and Agaat in Marlene van Niekerk’s 2004 novel, Agaat. This interaction is analysed ...
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Applying Ayittey’s Indigenous African Institutions to generate epistemic plurality in the curriculum (AOSIS, 2019-06-24)BACKGROUND : South Africa’s institutions of higher learning are currently experiencing a dispensation in which calls for curricula transformation and decolonisation reverberate. While the need for ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Voice is not a new concept in writing; however, it is relatively new in the field of academic writing. The main aim of this research is to determine how voice as a social construct is understood and perceived by doctoral ...
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(LitNet, 2008-08)In various countries across the globe, both events and individuals are commemorated by means of a variety of commemorative articles. In the Netherlands, various ceramic articles have been specially crafted since 1574 to ...
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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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(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-10)Over the past thirty years, the educational applications of subtitling, such as incidental language learning, improved literacy, and comprehension and retention of visual content, have been well documented. Seminal studies ...
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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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(Unisa Press, 2016-10-17)South African universities have become institutions of choice for international students, particularly those who hail from other African countries. Apart from presenting a beehive of cultures and languages, this segment ...
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(2012)As applied linguists, an important part of our work constitutes the design of language courses, language tests and sometimes even language policies. Clearly, these applied linguistic artefacts, especially language tests ...
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(Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobility in Africa, 2020-05)Violent attacks on African migrants have produced a richer body of knowledge on African transnational migration, xenophobia/Afrophobia, and their intersections with questions of citizenship and autochthony, especially ...
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(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2009-12)As a result of his keen (although lay) interest in natural science, Charles Darwin (1809-1882) agreed to serve as “unpaid gentleman’s companion” to the captain of the HMS Beagle during its voyage from 1831 to 1836. Darwin’s ...
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(South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT), 2013-12)This contribution enters into dialogue with studies conducted both at school and university level on the effectiveness of interaction between subject teachers and language teachers to improve learners’ subject-specific ...
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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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(Ensovoort Society, 2007)The article reports on a research project that was aimed at determining differences in picture comprehension between literate and low-literate audiences in the context of HIV and AIDS. Structured interviews were held with ...
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(Higher Education South Africa, 2020-03)While great strides have been made to improve accessibility to higher education in South Africa, successful completion of bachelor's degrees within the prescribed time remains a challenge. Research suggests that a lack ...
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