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Is there a woman in the text? : a feminist exploration of Katherine Mansfield's search for authentic selves in a selection of short stories

Cooper, Lucille (2009-08-25)

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), British Modernist writer whose search for authentic selves in the lives of the characters in her short stories, is reflected in her innovative style of writing in which she examines the ...

Listening comprehension in academic lectures : a focus on the role of discourse markers

Smit, Talita Christine (2009-08-25)

Increasing involvement with students at the University of Namibia has indicated their overall difficulty with comprehending and recalling information from oral content lectures. It has also been observed that in general ...

Reading habits and attitudes of Thai L2 students

Strauss, Michael John (2009-08-25)

This study investigates the reading habits of three Thai students between their early twenties to early thirties. Although the focus of interest is on their English reading, their reading habits in Thai and English, both ...

Inventions and transformations : an exploration of mythification and remythification in four contemporary novels

Slabbert, Mathilda (2009-08-25)

The reading of four contemporary novels, namely: Credo by Melvyn Bragg, The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett, Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy and American Gods by Neil Gaiman explores the prominent position of mythification ...

Fossilisation in the written English of Xhosa - speaking students during the FET phase

Maliwa, Kaya Giveus (2009-08-25)

This study investigates error fossilisation in the written English of Xhosa - speaking students. It is hypothesised that there is no statistically significant difference in the language errors of two groups of Grade 10 ...

Techno genetrix : shamanizing the new flesh : cyborgs, virtual interfaces and the vegetable matrix in SF

Carstens, Johannes Petrus (2009-08-25)

This dissertation examines the figures of the shaman and the cyborg, arguing that both act as intermediaries between the organic world of bodies and the artificial world of culture and machines. Using the sf of Robert ...

The religious crisis in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Giles, Roy James (2009-08-25)

Gerard Manley Hopkins produced poetry in the Victorian era which was noted for its originality of syntax and form. The essence underlying a large body of his poetry was his Catholic religion. His early religious poetry ...

Gendered bodies and new technologies

Du Preez, Amanda Anida (2002-11)

Gendered bodies and new technologies has one founding premise, namely that embodiment constitutes a non-negotiable prerequisite for human life. Although this may seem like an obvious statement, it is a statement that needs ...

The role of narrative input in the New Headway ESL course books

Boshoff, Dorothea (2009-08-25)

Literature, while perceived as beneficial, is not widely used in the ESL arena. This study set out to investigate proven benefits of using literature in ESL through a review of the current research, at the same time ...

`The love that dare not speak its name' in the works of Oscar Wilde

Grewar, Debra Suzanne (2009-08-25)

Victorian society had strict written and unwritten laws about what was permissible in terms of personal relationships. Anglican patriarchal church values governed behaviour between the classes and enforced codes of conduct ...

The role of English in the provision of high quality education in the United Arab Emirates

Watson, Deborah Theresa (2009-08-25)

The knowledge gap between Arabic nations and the developed world is widening. A contributing factor to the slow acquisition and production of knowledge is the use of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) as the language of instruction ...

The collapse of certainty: contextualizing liminality in Botswana fiction and reportage

Kalua, Fetson Anderson (2009-08-25)

This thesis deploys Homi Bhabha's perspective of postcolonial literary theory as a critical procedure to examine particular instances of fiction, as well as reportage on Botswana. Its unifying interest is to pinpoint the ...

Overcoming the fear of speaking in a foreign language : a study of the role that selected humanistic techniques play in reducing language anxiety associated with oral performance in the TESOL classroom

Bowen, Amanda Deborah (2009-08-25)

The aim of this study was to investigate the role that humanistic techniques play in reducing feelings of language anxiety associated with oral communication in the TESOL classroom. Students in the experimental group ...

The construction of gender through the narrative process of the African folktale: a case study of the Maragoli folktale

Kabaji, Egara Stanley (2009-08-25)

The purpose of the study was to identify the gender-related themes from a cultural discourse in order to determine how gender is constructed in African society. The study specifically examines the Maragoli Folktale. The ...

A story that would (O)therwise not have been told

Alexander, Pauline Ingrid (2009-08-25)

My mini-dissertation gives the autobiography of Talent Nyathi, who was born in rural Zimbabwe in 1961. Talent was unwillingly conscripted into the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle. On her return to Zimbabwe, she has worked ...

Distance and clarity in selected works of Michael Ondaatje

Von Memerty, Joan Elizabeth (2009-08-25)

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Interpreting redness: a literary biography of Zakes Mda

Steele, Dorothy Winifred (2009-08-25)

This study of Zakes Mda's life and sixteen of his plays and seven novels, written from 1966 to the present day, set in South Africa, Lesotho and the United States of America, shows how his life and works interweave, and ...

Conditions for successful online mentoring

Nchindila, Bernard Mwansa (2009-08-25)

This study examines the conditions for successful online mentoring in order to develop writing skills in English in a workplace setting. Chapter 1 gives the background and context of the study. Problems to be addressed ...

Integrating language and literature in English studies : a case study of the English 100 course at the University of North West

Butler, Ian (2009-08-25)

This thesis is a case study, conducted within a paradigm of action research, of the English 100 course at the University of the North West (now the Mafikeng campus of North West University), as taught by the author in the ...

From silence to speech, from object to subject: the body politic investigated in the trajectory between Sarah Baartman and contemporary circumcised African women's writing

Gordon-Chipembere, Natasha, 1970- (2009-08-25)

NOTE FROM THE LIBRARY: PLEASE CONTACT THE AUTHOR AT indisunflower@yahoo.com OR CONSULT THE LIBRARY FOR THE FULL TEXT OF THIS THESIS.... This thesis investigates the trajectory traced from Sarah Baartman, a Khoisan woman ...

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