• Editorial 

  Sibanda, Brian; Sefalane-Nkohla, Puleng; Joubert, Michelle; Rambiritch, Avasha; Drennan, Laura; Angu, Pineteh (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 ...
• Exploring factors influencing teachers’ expectations of learners’ reading practices 

  Cekiso, M.P.; Olifant, F.M.; Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah (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 ...
• The end(s) of The Tempest in post-apartheid South Africa 

  De Waal, Marguerite Florence (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 ...
• Rethinking literacy pedagogy in the context of 4IR : learners’ access and reading motivation 

  Olifant, Florence M.; Cekiso, Madoda; Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah (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 ...
• Improving the reading proficiency of mature students through a task-based language teaching approach 

  Adjei-Mensah, Susana; Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah; Masenge, Andries (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, ...
• Left, right then left again : educators at the intersection of global citizenship education, technology and academic literacies 

  Eybers, Oscar Oliver; Muller, Alan (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 ...
• Afrocentricity and decoloniality in disciplinarity : a reflective dialogue on academic literacy development 

  Eybers, Oscar Oliver (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 ...
• Cultural entanglement, displacement and contemporary Durban in Imraan Coovadia’s High Low In-between 

  Muller, Alan (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 ...
• Being black and non-citizen in South Africa : intersecting race, white privilege and afrophobic violence in contemporary South Africa 

  Angu, Pineteh (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 ...
• Academic, keyword, and plain English subtitles for natural sciences students : intralingual views 

  Kruger-Marais, Elmarie; Kruger-Roux, Helena (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 ...
• Coloniality as appropriation of indigenous ontologies : insights From South Africa and Ethiopia 

  Eybers, Oscar Oliver (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 ...
• Can academic writing transform epistemicide to emancipation? 

  Eybers, Oscar Oliver (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 ...
• “You are essentially just a number”: discourse elaboration and devaluation among natural science students 

  Eybers, Oscar Oliver; Paulet, Emma; Van der Schyff, Natasha (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 ...
• An interdependent literacy model to assist with critical reading comprehension in the English First Additional language classroom 

  Olifant, Tilla; Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah (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 ...
• Investigating English first additional language educators’ reading comprehension practices in selected schools in Gauteng, South Africa 

  Olifant, Tilla; Cekiso, M.P.; Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah (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 ...
• A survey of Grade 8 English first additional language learners’ online reading preferences and challenges 

  Olifant, Tilla; Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah; Cekiso, Madoda (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 ...
• Remote teaching and learning at a South African university during Covid-19 lockdown : moments of resilience, agency and resignation in first-year students' online discussions 

  Angu, Pineteh (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 ...
• Interstitial small stories in Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa 

  Kelleher, William (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 ...
• Cultural adaptation and Northern Sotho translation of the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers 

  Vorster, Carlien; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Lekganyane, Matemane; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Van der Linde, Jeannie (AOSIS, 2022-01-13)

  BACKGROUND : In recent reviews of autism spectrum disorder screening tools, the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, Revised with Follow-Up (M-CHAT-R/FTM) has been recommended for use in lower middle-income countries ...
• Using role play and explicit strategy instruction to improve first-year students’ academic reading proficiency 

  Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah (AOSIS, 2021-10)

  BACKGROUND: Many first-year students find the reading of academic texts to be challenging and overwhelming. In particular, first-year students studying sociology at the South African institution where the study was ...

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