• The attitudes and perceptions of parents, teachers and school governing body towards home languages as languages of learning and teaching in a primary school in Mamelodi, South Africa 

  Moganedi, Keamogetse Tsholofelo (2024-02-29)

  This study explores the attitudes and perceptions of parents, teachers and the school governing body towards home languages as languages of learning and teaching, and their preference for using certain languages for teaching ...
• Construing political history: transitivity analyses of the process types in selected Ghanaian presidential independence anniversary speeches under the fourth republic 

  Adukpo, John (2023-12-15)

  This study affirms the contention that language is a tool that politicians use to construe their experiences of the world. Hence, Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics, with focus on ideational meta function as a ...
• Exploring first-year students’ perceptions and challenges of using podcasts and vodcasts to enhance academic writing skills in an ODeL institution in South Africa 

  Mohale, Ntshimane Elphas (2023)

  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 ...
• An exploration of strategies and approaches used in teaching reading comprehension : a case study of selected grade 10 EFAL classrooms in Mpumalanga, South Africa 

  Khoza, Brain Emanuel (2023-08-11)

  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 ...
• Representations of home and displacement in Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut and Noviolet Bulawayo’s We need new names 

  Rasekgotoma, Masefoko Tshegofatso Glander (2023-06)

  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 ...
• Re-reading African literature with feminist empathy : a gendered analysis of selected texts by Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Tsitsi Dangarembga 

  Anim, Patience (2022-12)

  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 ...
• Entrenched in politics and culture: negotiations of violence in selected texts by Dambudzo Marechera, Shimmer Chinodya, Valerie Tagwira and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

  Rukuni, Samuel (2023-01)

  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 ...
• Intergrating project-based learning and mobile technology to enhance first-year students' writing in English second language contexts: a case study of the University of Limpopo, South Africa 

  Choshi, Morongwa Adolphina (2022-02)

  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 ...
• Evaluation of the implementation of English-Medium Instruction in a public and a private university in Pakistan 

  Muhammad, Saima Faisal (2022-08)

  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 importance of anthropomorphism in children’s literature : studies in Elwyn Brooks White’s Charlotte’s web and Stuart Little 

  Falowo, Oluwakemisola Grace (2022-10-28)

  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 ...
• EFL teachers' perceptions and attitudes toward communicative language teaching in Mozambican secondary schools 

  Shava, Pedzisai (2022-03)

  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 non-European character in South African English fiction 

  Mphahlele, Ezekiel (1956-12)

  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
• Code-switching in Grades 4-7 English second language classrooms : a study of three primary schools in Namibia 

  Namutenya, Tunomukumo Ileni (2022-02)

  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 ...
• Exploring instances of Deleuzian rhizomatic patterns in student writing and online interactions at an open distance eLearning institution in South Africa 

  Nkhobo, Tlatso Ishmael (2022-03-24)

  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 ...
• Reimaging student feedback for improved academic writing skills in a first-year English studies module at a distance education institution in South Africa 

  Maphoto, Kgabo Bridget (2021-01)

  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 ...
• “We’re the same! We’re them!” : representations of gender in The walking dead 

  Singh, Sanjana (2021-01-29)

  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 ...
• Academic literacy development in an English curriculum : the case of Ho West district 

  Akrong, Brian Senyo (2021-05)

  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 ...
• English as a foreign language instructors' conceptions and applications of communicative language teaching in grammar lessons : the case of four private universities in Ethiopia 

  Alamirew Kassahun Tadesse (2021-04)

  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 ...
• Language management in relation to language needs, uses and preferences in subordinate courts : a case study of Machakos County 

  Mulwa, Emmah Mwende (2019-11)

  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 ...
• Carnivalisation of catastrophe: a study of comedy in Howard Barker’s Theatre of catastrophe 

  Khalvati, Mahboube (2019-05)

  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) ...

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