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Reading for understanding: An investigation into teachers’ reading comprehension strategies in Grade three isiXhosa Home Language classrooms in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Reading is one of the components of literacy that plays a crucial role in accessing knowledge. It develops the children’s mind and stimulates their understanding of the reading content and enables them to function and ...
Positioning : a linguistic ethnography of Cameroonian children in and out of South African primary school spaces
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
This thesis traces the trajectories of a group of young Cameroonian learners as they engage in new social and educational spaces in two South African primary schools. Designed as a Linguistic Ethnography and using data ...
Exploring habitus and writer identities : an ethnographic study of writer identity construction in the FET phase at two schools in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
The purpose of this study is to investigate the writing identities constructed in the Further Education and Training (FET) Phase and the ways in which these identities either strengthen or impede academic writing at ...
What do Grade 1 learners write? a study of literacy development at a multilingual primary school in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
Research shows that there is a literacy crisis in many South African primary schools, especially in the Foundation and Intermediate Phases (Grades 1 – ). The latest Annual National Assessments (ANA) results released in ...
A sociolinguistic analysis of the effective translanguaging strategies of some first year bilingual students at University of the Western Cape (UWC)
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
In South Africa's educational system, many learners' academic literacy is substantially affected by the multi-language background and its inconsiderate language policies. From time to time, South African Education board ...
A critical ethnography of Kreol Morisien as an optional language in primary education within the Republic of Mauritius
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
This research is a critical ethnography of KM in primary schools. Its purpose is to explore the link between heritage language and identity construction. My central research question is: how does the introduction of KM as ...
The promotion of reading among high school learners through text selection, evaluation and innovative methodologies
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
This study facilitated and evaluated the pedagogical approaches to the literacy pandemic that has afflicted South African learners, particularly high school learners in grade 8 and 10 in the English Home language classrooms. ...
Assessing the impact of an English for academic purposes course on the academic writing skills of English second language learners attending economically disadvantaged high schools : an interventionist case study
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
Academic writing skills are vitally important for South African learners in both high
school and tertiary contexts. The importance of such writing skills is even more
pronounced for English Second Language (ESL) speakers, ...
Constructing multilingual digital identities: An investigation into Grade 11 learners’ digital practices in relation to English language learning in Rwanda
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
Rwanda has taken a strong move towards language-in-education policy shift whereby English became the sole medium of instruction in 2008, despite her rich linguistic diversity. The language shift occurred at the time when ...
A selective investigation of the University of the Western Cape‘s students and teachers attempts at intercultural communication : exploring the connections between intercultural communication competence and identity construction
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
Life in the twenty-first Century globalised world brings people into contact with others from different cultures who use different languages. Through these contacts, the need for interactions makes these people to find ...