Browsing Research Articles (Unit for Academic Literacy) by Title

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  • Jeanette Ferreira in heroënskou geneem 
    Marais, Renee (Ensovoort Society, 1982)
    Jeanette Ferreira se debuutbundel, Waar een mens saam is, het gedurende 1980 by Perskor verskyn. Dit bevat gedigte van wisselende gehalte oor 'n verskeidenheid temas. Soos die bundeltitel te kenne gee het die gedigte feitlik ...
  • Leaps into cyberspace : a case study for scaffolding argumentation in a hybridized academic literacy module 
    Von Fintel, Celeste; Eybers, Oscar Oliver (Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-07)
    This study critically reflects on the effectiveness of a new hybrid curriculum implemented in a heavily populated academic literacy module aimed at first-year students from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences ...
  • Moments of suffering, pain and resilience : Somali refugees’ memories of home and journeys to exile 
    Angu, Pineteh (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 ...
  • A multidirectional model for tertiary-level disciplinary writing 
    Carstens, Adelia (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 ...
  • A multifaceted model for designing reading development programmes for L2 learners at tertiary level 
    Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah (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 ...
  • Narrative materiality and practice : a study of born-free negotiation of periphery and centre 
    Kelleher, William (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 ...
  • Non-curricular postgraduate writing interventions at South African universities 
    Vivian, Brenda; Fourie, Reinhardt (South African Association for Language Teaching, 2016)
    Formalised postgraduate writing support centres are a relatively new phenomenon at the majority of South African universities and have not yet been researched intensively. This article, which forms part of a mandated ...
  • NP van Wyk Louw se diere en gestaltes herbesoek : ’n ekokritiese lesing 
    Marais, Johannes Lodewyk (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 ...
  • NP van Wyk Louw: natuur, landskap, omgewing 
    Marais, Johannes Lodewyk (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2006-09)
    The Afrikaans poet, playwright and intellectual N.P. van Wyk Louw (1906-1970) wrote extensively about nature and landscape in his creative work as well as his contemplative essays. These topics occur in different forms ...
  • Pablo Neruda : twenty love poems and a song of despair 
    Marais, Renee (Ensovoort Society, 1981-06)
    Hy word beskou as een van die grootste digters in die Spaanse en in die wereldliteratuur. Ricardo Neftali Reyes Basoalto is op 12 Junie 1904 in Chili gebore. Sedert 1920 ken die wereld hom as Pablo Neruda, 'n naam ...
  • Poësiekroniek I 
    Marais, Renee (Ensovoort Society, 1984-12)
    Gedurende 1984 het daar altesaam agt debuutbundels (waarvan een 'n versamelbundel is) by vier uitgewers verskyn: Vuurtent in die sneeu (Jan de Bruyn), Interne weerstand (Carl Mischke), Skerf (Petra van Blerk) en ...
  • Poësiekroniek II 
    Marais, Renee (Ensovoort Society, 1985-06)
    No abstract in article.
  • Poësiekroniek III 
    Marais, Renee (Ensovoort Society, 1985-12)
    Membraan is Cussons se negende digbundel sedert haar debuut in 1970 (met uitsondering van Omtoorvuur, 1982). Die bundel bevat 39 gedigte, drie gedigreekse bestaande uit onderskeidelik drie, vier en vyf gedigte elk en ...
  • Poësiekroniek IV 
    Marais, Renee (Ensovoort Society, 1995)
    Gedurende 1993 het daar in Afrikaans drie debuutdigbundels verskyn: Gert Vlok Nel se Om te lewe is onnatuurlik, Ronel de Goede se Skoop (albei deur Tafelberg uitgegee) en Dirk Winterbach se Die oranje hoek (Hond). ...
  • Poësiekroniek V 
    Marais, Renee (Ensovoort Society, 1995)
    In 1936, die jaar van haar mondigwording, word Elisabeth Eybers die eerste vrou wat 'n digbundel in Afrikaans publiseer. Die titel daarvan is Belydenis in die skemering. D .J. Opperman skryf in sy destyds epogmakende ...
  • Postgraduate students’ perceptions of their academic reading and writing : a case of teachers studying at a Ghanaian university 
    Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah; Adika, Gordon Senanu (Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-12)
    Students’ literacy levels, in particular their academic reading and writing, have been an area of concern in education for many years. Students who have high academic reading and writing proficiency are usually successful ...
  • Preferred genres and rhetorical modes in the humanities and social sciences 
    Carstens, Adelia (Unisa Press, 2008)
    The article reports on a research project aimed at identifying salient written genres and text types/rhetorical modes in the Faculty of Humanities at a large university in Gauteng, South Africa. The main purpose of the ...
  • Quantitative evaluation of a subject-specific essay-writing intervention 
    Carstens, Adelia; Fletcher, Lizelle (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 ...
  • The relationship between self-efficacy and reading proficiency of first-year students 
    Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-04-10)
    Self-efficacy, which is the belief about one’s ability to perform a task successfully, has been widely acknowledged as important in learning. This affective factor, though not explicitly evident, has been said to play ...
  • The relationship between socio-affective factors and reading ability : implications for tertiary reading instruction 
    Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah; Sommerville, Jaqui E.M.; Debusho, Legesse Kassa (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 ...