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Research Articles (Unit for Academic Literacy): Recent submissions
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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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(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2020-06)In die digter, dramaturg en intellektueel NP van Wyk Louw (1906-1970) se werk kom heelparty verwysings na diere voor, terwyl enkele gedigte in die geheel aan een of ander dierespesie gewy word. Louw se gedigte oor diere ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-08-29)This article explores a small story narrative, the community of practice and the orientations of a group of ‘born-free’ participants as these interact with the material discourses of the Gautrain station in the business ...
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(Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Faculty of Education, 2018-04)In the past two years, higher education institutions (HEI) have been inundated with students' demands for a decolonised education. Their voice led to the resuscitation of debates on a transformed curriculum. Amongst others, ...
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(Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Faculty of Education, 2018-04)The value of the support provided in a writing centre is well documented today in international literature. However, an area largely untouched has been how to implement social justice principles in the context of a writing ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-12-03)BACKGROUND : Student reading challenges have been reported worldwide. In many classrooms around the world, teaching students appropriate strategy-use has been a technique used to improve comprehension and improve reading ...
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(Routledge, 2019)This article provides an overview of the process and initial outcomes of designing a multilingual corpus of academic texts produced by university students with different mother tongues in South Africa, with a view to making ...
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(Higher Education South Africa, 2018)The following theoretical analysis aimed to highlight perceived, conceptual differences between constructivist and realist ontologies as meta-theories for approaching students’ well-being in institutions of higher learning; ...
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(South African Association for Language Teaching, 2002)Although literacy efforts in South Africa were standardised and legitimised by the establishment of the National Qualifications Framework in 1995, Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) programmes are dwindling in ...
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(Cogent OA, 2017-10-13)This article interprets narratives that have dominated the public sphere in post-apartheid South Africa, following the influx of African migrants. It uses qualitative data from personal interviews with local South Africans, ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-17)This article reports on the extensive reading (ER) component of a reading intervention programme to improve first-year students’ reading proficiency. To make the intervention more practical and to accelerate improvement, ...
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(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2017)There have been a number of studies on reading interventions to improve students’ reading proficiency, yet the majority of these interventions are undertaken with the assumption that students’ reading challenges are ...
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(Wiley, 2018-04)This article discusses how violence between South Africans and Somali migrants plays out in different forms of spatial contestation, victimization and resistance during xenophobic attacks. It analyses Somalis’ entrepreneurial ...
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(Stellenbosch University, Library and Information Service, 2017)In hierdie artikel word die praktyk van transtaling ondersoek binne die konteks van ’n akademiesegeletterdheidsmodule wat in 2016 in Engels aangebied is vir Afrikaanssprekende eerstejaarstudente in Konstruksie-ekonomie. ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-03)BACKGROUND. Service learning (SL) as a pedagogy in higher education must be differentiated from other services with a primarily philanthropic intent. Dental therapy and oral hygiene students at Sefako Makgatho Health ...
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Moments of suffering, pain and resilience : Somali refugees’ memories of home and journeys to exile (Cogent OA, 2017-08-31)This article is based on a collection of stories about victimisation and resilience, told by thirty Somali refugees in Cape Town, South Africa. It seeks to understand how this group of displaced persons remembers their ...
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Creating “transdisciplinary spaces” for a real-world scenario : a practical teaching collaboration (South African Association for Language Teaching, 2017-06)A lack of transfer of academic literacy competencies was identified by academic literacy and Statistics lecturers involved in an extended programme course. This paper reports on one attempt at a workable collaborative ...
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(South African Association for Language Teaching, 2017)Academic literacy interventions are becoming increasingly important in a country where the secondary education system no longer adequately prepares students for the literacy demands of higher education. This article ...
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(University of Stellenbosch, Education Faculty, Department of Curriculum Studies, 2017)The purpose of the study was to determine the efficacy of an integrated cognitive and affective approach to improve students’ reading proficiency by improving their affective levels and strategy use. A survey was conducted ...
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(Centre for Refugee Studies, York University and Queen’s University, 2016)This article examines the memories of a group of Cameroonian asylum-seekers in South Africa, analyzing personal accounts of memories of fear, suffering, and pain as well as resilience and heroism during their forced ...
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