This study explored first-year students’ perceptions and challenges of using podcasts and vodcast to enhance academic writing skills. Academic writing challenges faced by first-year students at an Open Distance e-Learning ...
Research indicates that a substantial number of students entering higher education institutions lack the foundational academic reading skills, strategies, and approaches necessary for meaningful engagement with texts in ...
This study discusses how the concepts of home and displacement are portrayed in the
selected novels of two Southern African writers: We Need New Names (2013) by
Zimbabwe born and USA based author, NoViolet Bulawayo, and ...
Several African literary texts and the critical responses to these texts have engaged extensively with the varied ways in which men and women have been both complicit in and active perpetrators of gendered oppression and ...
This study investigates the negotiation of violence by analysing how the selected texts, The House of Hunger by Damudzo Marechera, Harvest of Thorns by Shimmer Chinodya, The Uncertainty of Hope by Valerie Tagwira and Half ...
Academic essay writing also known as student writing, tends to be a challenging task for first-year students in most universities worldwide and in particular for first-year students in English second language contexts in ...
This study aims to evaluate the implementation of English-medium instruction (EMI) in both a public and a private university in Pakistan. The goals are to investigate: the role of linguistic capital in reproducing educational ...
The anthropomorphised linguistic and social world in which animals are given human voice originated in the literary genre of the animal fable. Over the centuries this has changed from being, predominantly moralistic stories ...
English is the global language of communication in technology, science, medicine, education, business and the internet. Due to its importance, in recent decades many countries in EFL contexts including Mozambique have ...
The growing scope and significance of the "Non-European" in English fiction: a rapid survey of works of writers about countries where the enigma appears
This study explores classroom language practices of English Second Language (ESL) teachers in three primary schools in the Oshana Educational Region of Namibia; one urban school and two rural schools. This qualitative study ...
This study aimed to explore and make visualisations of Deleuzian Rhizomatic Patterns in first-year students’ writing samples of academic writing. Online interactions on myUnisa’s online discussion forums and the Microsoft ...
This study examined first-year students, markers and lecturers’ perceptions of feedback in the context of academic writing in one mega module at an open distance and eLearning (ODeL) university in South Africa. It explored ...
This thesis examines the representation of gender in AMC’s The Walking Dead. The study of representations is important because it draws attention to underrepresented and misrepresented groups, affects how minorities see ...
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the curriculum and supplementary materials for the teaching and learning of English in five junior high schools in Ghana to ascertain the extent to which the curriculum ...
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been adopted in various countries in the world.
This is especially true in an EFL context in Ethiopia where it has received considerable attention both at policy and classroom ...
This study was an exploration of how language is managed in the subordinate courts of Machakos County in Kenya. It was an investigation into the language policy used in the courts,
and whether the languages serve the ...
This research explores the humour and laughter in Howard Barker's Theatre of Catastrophe in
the light of Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the carnivalesque against the backdrop of the postSecond-World-War British (post-WWII) ...
This thesis reports on the findings of a study to validate an assessment scale for writing
in an Open Distance Learning (ODL) context by first-year students in their responses to
English literary texts. The study involved ...
This thesis uses a postcolonial framework to analyse the construction and representation of identities of Shona women in selected black and white Zimbabwean-authored fiction in English published between 1890 and 2015. The ...