Browsing by Author "Stroud, Christopher"
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Beyond the glass ceiling: Towards a multi-sensory definition of functional literacy
Odendal, Matthys Johannes (University of the Western Cape, 2017)The world is becoming increasingly visual (Kress, 2009:1).The visually literate viewer should be able to gather data, place it in context, and determine its validity. A huge visual world opened up for the users of new ... -
Choice of language for learning and assessment: the role of learner identity and perceptions in informing these choices
Jantjies, Nomxolisi (2009)South Africa, like many ex-colonial contexts finds itself confronting difficult decisions about multilingualism. The South Africa constitution recognizes eleven official languages and provides for education in these ... -
Choice of language for learning and assessment: the role of learner identity and perceptions in informing these choices.
Jantjies, Nomxolisi (University of the Western Cape, 2009)South Africa, like many ex-colonial contexts finds itself confronting difficult decisions about multilingualism. The South Africa constitution recognizes eleven official languages and provides for education in these ... -
A critical analysis of colonial and postcolonial discourses and representations of the people of Mozambique in the Portuguese newspaper ‘O Século de Joanesburgo’ from 1970-1980
Da Costa, Dinis Fernando (University of the Western Cape, 2014)The aim of this thesis is to probe how Mozambican people were represented or constructed in the colonial and post-colonial periods through the columns of the Portuguese newspaper, ‘O Século de Joanesburgo’. The study ... -
Drag kings in Cape Town: space and the performance of gendered subjectivities
Shaikjee, Mooniq (University of the Western Cape, 2014)The last few decades have seen the development of a large body of scholarly work on drag queens and performances of femininity by men (see Barrett 1995, 1999). However, performances of masculinity by women have largely ... -
Exercising linguistic citizenship through Coloured narratives
Van Niekerk, Lauren (University of the Western Cape, 2022)This project explores the negotiation of shifting racial identities within a transforming post-Apartheid context, in particular, the negotiation of what it means to be ‘coloured’. Twenty-seven years into South Africa’s ... -
Exploring the micro-social dynamics of intergenerational language transmission: a critical analysis of parents's attitudes and language use patterns among Ndamba speakers in Tanzania
Lipembe, Pembe Peter Agustini (University of the Western Cape, 2010)The study has several implications; for general theoretical traditions it highlights the point that ambivalent attitudes and incomplete language use are responsible for gradual language decline. Previous studies while ... -
Investigating Kiswahili academic literacy: the case of two primary and two secondary schools in Morogoro region, Tanzania
Shumbusho, George N. (University of the Western Cape, 2009)The purpose of the current study was to examine whether pupils/students master academic literacy and if various genres are taught appropriately. In other words whether pupils/students master academic literacy in a way that ... -
Language in education policy and literacy acquisition in multilingual Uganda: a case study of the urban district of Kampala
Nankindu, Prosperous (University of the Western Cape, 2014)This thesis is concerned with Language in Education Policy (LiEP) and literacy acquisition in multilingual Uganda with the urban district of Kampala as the case study. Specifically, the study investigates the implementation ... -
The literacy orientation of preschool children in a multilingual environment: the case of post-apartheid Manenberg
Jegels, Dmitri Garcia Aloysius (University of the Western Cape, 2011)This thesis is the result of an ethnographic study of the multilingual literacy practices of a group of families in their particular spaces within the urban context of the community of Manenberg, with the specific view of ... -
Multilingual Landscapes : The Politics of Language and Self in a South African Township in Transformation
Mpendukana, Sibonile (University of the Western Cape, 2009)Much language planning and policy in recent years in South Africa tends to overlook linguistic situations and practices, and focuses on notions of top-down language policy and implementation. This does not fit easily with ... -
Multilingualism in late-modern Cape Town : a focus on Popular Spaces of Hip-Hop and Tshisa-Nyama
Williams, Quentin E. (University of the Western Cape, 2012)In highly mobile societies, the voice and agency of speakers will differ across contexts depending on the linking of forms and functions. This thesis is thus about the complexities introduced to the notion of (form-function ... -
Promoting health citizenship and multilingualism in the health insurance industry
Thutloa, Alfred Mautsane (University of the Western Cape, 2018)The thesis explores the role of semiotic structuring of health information in relation to language, multimodality and health literacy and the affordances for agentive participation among consumers of two leading South ... -
Schooling superdiversity: Linguistic features as linguistic resources in two Manenberg classrooms in the Western Cape
Madell, Madelynne (University of the Western Cape, 2017)This thesis takes on a non-essentialist view of language by studying the borrowing of linguistic features across languages as natural, everyday language practices. More specifically, this research identifies the need for ... -
Semiotics of spatial citizenship: Place, race and identity in post-apartheid South Africa
Mpendukana, Sibonile (University of the Western Cape, 2022)This thesis uses the work of Frantz Fanon as a perspective to anchor an analysis of semiotic material deployed by students during the #Shackville protests at the University of Cape Town in 2016. Through the notion of ... -
The semiotics of the mosque and its impact on self-perceptions of the feminine body
Shaikjee, Mooniq (University of the Western Cape, 2023)From its inception, the primary focus of the field of Linguistic Landscape Studies has been the interplay between language and space, or language on display. Recently, however, scholars have begun to consider the human ... -
Social networking among UWC students: instant messaging genres and registers
Dalwai, Nausheena Begum (University of the Western Cape, 2015)Contemporary research has pointed to the importance of social media in the lives of young people today. This project aims to explore the emerging discourse conventions and generic structures of chat conversations on social ... -
Telling tales of identity: an interpretation of women's narratives
Barthus, Tatum Terri (University of the Western Cape, 2011)This paper examines selected discourses found in the journals kept by 21 working-class women during a training course for domestic workers in South Africa. The principal aim of the paper is to examine how emotion, voice ...