Citation, stance taking and engagement are important academic writing practices and research has revealed that how they are used influences grades awarded to students’ work. This study examines the extent to which MA and ...
‘How can I measure my learners’ reading ability in order to manage my instruction more effectively?’ This seems to be the refrain of many teachers these days. However, while teachers are taught new methods of instruction ...
Focusing on a series of multiparty recordings carried out between the months of October and March 2012 and drawing on a theoretical framework based on work of linguists such as Auer (1999), Backus (2005), Bakker (2000), ...
This thesis investigates the use of metaphorical language in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Vivekananda is one of the most influential modern-day Hindu scholars, and his interpretation of the ancient Hindu ...
This study sets out to explore the role of embodied cognition and lived experience in the construction of meaning in religious texts dealing with supernatural abstract agents and counterintuitive acts of divinity. The study ...
Writing coherent essays is evidence of a university student's discourse
competence and is important in terms of academic success. An analytical
taxonomy of coherence breaks {both topic-related and cohesion-related), ...
This study explored the communicative strategies which were used by participants who were
called in as witnesses before the Leon Commission and the Phumaphi Commission of Enquiry
in Lesotho in 1998 and 2015 respectively. ...
The current work is a comparative analysis of thematic structures between Aimé Césaire’s French poem Cahier d’un retour au pays natal and one of its English translations Notebook of a Return to My Native Land (by Mireille ...
The study is a comparative analysis of conceptual metaphors in English and Shona. The objectives of this study were: to compare the metaphorical expressions of English and Shona in the same or similar domains in order to ...
This research study examines the relationship between conjunctive cohesion and relational coherence in students' narrative and expository compositions and writing quality (here defined in terms of teachers' ratings). ...
The notion of identity is complex. Identities are not fixed, but fluid and multifaceted. They are constantly negotiated and re-negotiated under different circumstances and situations for a variety of reasons. Human identity ...
The main aim of this study was to assess the degree of similarity or variation between the two cross-border standardised varieties of the Sena language spoken in Malawi and Mozambique. The study sets out to test the ...
Phonological processing skills, including phonological awareness, phonological working memory and rapid automatised naming, are widely accepted as essential building blocks of early literacy development (Wagner and Torgesen ...
The purpose of this study is to examine the role played by the three Tshivenda Bible translations in the growth, development and intellectualisation of Tshivenda. The translation of the Bible into African languages has ...
This study examines court interpreting from a sociolinguistic point of view. It seeks to understand how interpreters use language in a courtroom involving Tshivenda and English. Court interpreters are viewed to be active ...
Translating culture-specific items between different languages is a nerve wrecking task that often poses a great challenge to the translator. This can be ascribed to the fact that the items to be rendered are unknown or ...
This research aimed to determine whether the rejection by Russian Orthodox Church leaders
of recent translations of the Bible into Russian could be ascribed to a conflict of Russian and
Western translation norms. Using ...
This study investigates factors hampering comprehension of sign language interpretations rendered on South African TV news bulletins in terms of Deaf viewers’ expectancy norms and corpus analysis of authentic interpretations. ...
Cross-dialectal acceptance of a written standard (CAWS) is essential for that standard to be used
by speakers of divergent dialects of a language. Earlier works have focused on the influence of
linguistic differences on ...
This article reports on a reading intervention project undertaken in a high poverty primary school in Gauteng where reading levels in both the home language, Northern Sotho, and in English were very low.