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(South African Asociation for Language Teaching, 2008)Genre approaches to academic writing are still enjoying wide support among pedagogues and applied linguists in the UK, US and Australia. However, genrebased pedagogies have been widely criticised for their explicit teaching ...
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(University of Stellenbosch Institute for Language Teaching, 2008)Increasing evidence from corpus, discourse and genre analysis has indicated that there is significant variation between disciplines in the way that they structure their discourses, in particular their written genres. ...
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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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(NISC, 2009)As a consideration in the design of a test of academic literacy, the face validity of such a test is determined by its perceived suitability and usefulness in addressing the literacy requirements of specific academic ...
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(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2009)Koos Prinsloo (1957-1994) was weens verskeie redes 'n omstrede figuur wat 'n aantal literêre grense verskuif het. Hy was 'n Afrikaanse kortverhaalskrywer van eerstes - die eerste om die skeidslyn tussen feit en fiksie ...
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(NISC, 2009)Discipline- and genre-specific approaches in language teaching have gained much support in recent years. However, few studies have thus far evaluated the effect of courses resulting from narrow-angled approaches. This ...
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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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(Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, 2010)Since his youth, the Afrikaans poet and intellectual N.P. van Wyk Louw (1906–1970) was interested in Roman history, which resulted in a number of literary works. In his verse drama Germanicus (1956) Louw utilises historical ...
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(Kunsttijdschrift Vlaanderen, 2011)De Van Gybland Oosterhoff-collectie is een uitzonderlijke verzameling historisch enculureel belangrijke voorwepen over het Nederlandse Huis van Oranje. Deze collectie omvat 2920 objecten waaronder keramiek-stukken, tegels, ...
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A multifaceted model for designing reading development programmes for L2 learners at tertiary level (University of Stellenbosch Institute for Language Teaching, 2011)Socio-affective issues are generally acknowledged as important in reading development. However, most intervention programmes focus on cognitive aspects of reading, and do not explicitly accommodate socio-affective factors ...
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(Southern African Alliance for Sport Science, Physical Education and Recreation, 2011)Despite various attempts at achieving gender equality in sport, the media is still dominated by stereotypical representations of sportswomen. The purpose of the present research was to describe gender subjectivity and ...
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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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(South African Association for Language Teaching, 2013)The concepts of reliability and validity help to determine whether a test is a strong one or not, does what it is designed to do, tests what it is designed to test, and whether we can make inferences that are justified ...
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(Unisa Press, 2013)Die artikel stel dit ten doel om verbande te ondersoek tussen die leesgedrag van ’n aantal eerstejaarstudente aan die Universiteit van Pretoria en hulle taal- en akademiese geletterdheidsvaardighede. Die studente is getoets ...
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(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2013)During recent years the reading and writing of literacy self-narratives has received renewed attention in Higher Education. Of particular interest are the ways in which these narratives reflect the literacy identities ...
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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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(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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(South African Association for Language Teaching, 2014)Unfair tests, unfair testing methods and the use of tests to restrict and deny access have ensured a negative attitude to tests. The move in the recent past (Shohamy 2001, 2008; Fulcher & Davidson 2007; McNamara & ...
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(South African Association of Language Teaching, 2014)Research in the field of reading literacy has focussed predominantly on the foundation phase and primary and secondary levels. In addition, these studies in reading literacy are predominantly cognitive-oriented. As a ...
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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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