Tonleu, Madeleine; De Beer, Anna-Marie; Snyman, Elisabeth(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2022-10-26)
In this article we examine the notion of womanism as portrayed in the 2016 novel Crépuscule du tourment: Mélancolie (Twilight of Torment:
Melancholy) by the Franco-Cameroonian author Léonora Miano. We explore how four ...
Tonleu, Madeleine(Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2022-12)
In this article, I explore the question of madness and feminism as presented by Ken Bugul in La folie et la mort (2000). Madness in this novel is firstly analysed as a socio-political crisis caused by, among other things, ...
Loh Yai, Jean Claude(University of Pretoria, 2023-01-31)
This PhD thesis titled La Traduction dans l’enseignement/apprentissage du Français Langue Étrangère en Afrique du Sud (Translation in the Teaching/Learning of French as a Foreign Language in South Africa) examines the role ...
The radicality of the “Fremderfahrung” can be described as an existential process of having to relearn the way in which one thinks, speaks, and writes. The poems of Charles Bukowski and Nelly Sachs showcase how their ...
Tirvassen, Rada(Association for French Studies in Southern Africa (AFSSA), 2020-10)
There is a belief that Francophone institutions and organisations
are powerless to counter the attraction of academics towards the
English language. According to many Francophone decisionmakers, the expansion of the ...
Mbooh, Jeanne Odette(University of Pretoria, 2020)
This research deals with the condition of Moroccan women as represented in The Sand Child (1985) and The Sacred Night (1987). In The Sand Child, the storyteller narrates the life of a girl named Ahmed, whose father, ...
Weber, Angelika(University of Stellenbosch, Education Faculty, Department of Curriculum Studies, 2018)
Learning a language’s grammar is frequently experienced as a complicated, abstract and often boring process. To alleviate this situation, scholars like Harald Weinrich advocate the use of literature in grammar teaching and ...
The study explored how Spanish is learnt at a South African university by analysing students’ self-reports on the use of language learning strategies. A mixed methods design was used. Considering that learning a foreign ...
Weber, Angelika(Southern African Association of German Studies, 2018)
The call to transform South African university curricula necessitates revisiting possibilities and
perspectives, also in teaching German as a foreign language. This article demonstrates how
intercultural learning can ...
Muhr, Stephan(Southern African Association of German Studies, 2018)
This contribution is based on the premise that remembering as representation of the past is always also the (re-)construction of reality and that the same applies to scientific memory. The generation of historical and ...
The aim of this project is to investigate the importance accorded to the personage of the missing woman in two texts by Patrick Modiano: Voyage de noces (1990) and Dora Bruder (1997). Where necessary, allusions to other ...
Tirvassen, Rada; Ramasawmy, Shalini Jagambal(University of Stellenbosch. Department of General Linguistics, 2017)
This article aims at deconstructing the conception of multilingualism developed in mainstream sociolinguistics by critically examining the assumptions underlying this trend of research, which is grounded in the scholarship ...
Tirvassen, Rada(Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2017)
The starting point of this article is that sociolinguistics and in fact any social science should acknowledge that there are different ways of constructing knowledge regarding human behaviour in society and that each of ...
Ajisafe, Dickson O.A.(University of Pretoria, 2017)
The growing numbers of terror attacks in Europe in recent times has made the concept of radicalization a sensitive phenomenon, most especially, Islamic radicalization. The activities of Islamic extremists and terrorists ...
Lancho Perea, Luis Andres(University of Pretoria, 2017)
This research is logged in the field of language acquisition, focusing on Spanish as a foreign language learnt at university level. It investigates how learning strategies are used by students to develop proficiency in ...
Coffi, Lilly Romance Laure(University of Pretoria, 2017)
Contemporary society has seen the English language rise to great heights. It has
become the most important language in trade, industry and education. In South Africa,
speakers of Indigenous African Languages (IALs) consider ...