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Biliteracy and academic success: The experiences of selected Libyan students.
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This study is an investigation into the biliteracy skills (in Arabic and English)
employed by Libyan students at the University of the Western Cape to gain their
academic success. Nowadays, international students form a ...
A multisemiotic analysis of ‘skinscapes’ of female students at three Western Cape universities
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
This study used a multisemiotic/multimodal discourse analysis approach to analyze tattoos of selected female students at three Western Cape Universities: the University of the Western Cape (UWC), the University of Cape ...
Problematising the construct of 'definitions' within academic literacy: An analysis of students' knowledge of definitions in isiXhosa and English language textbooks at the University of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
Instructional verbs (such as analyse, summarise, apply, evaluate) have been referred to as performatives and have become the object of initiatives around developing and assessing students' academic literacy competencies. ...
Analyzing university language policies in South Africa: Critical discourse and policy analysis frameworks
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
At the dawn of democracy, Higher Education in South Africa was in dire need of change. One of the essential initiatives in response to transformation in Higher Education was the mandate from the Ministry of Education for ...
The transformation and reshaping of South African languages via cell-phone messaging: sms speak as a local practice
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
South Africa is a diverse, multilingual country with a majority of its youth owning or using cellular phone technologies. The cell phone interaction between multilingual individuals from different linguistic and cultural ...
A platform to protest: A virtual ethnography of the UWC Fees WILL Fall Linguistic Landscape.
(University of Western Cape, 2019)
The year 2015 and 2016 marked a period of heightened turmoil for the universities in the
Western Cape. The three leading institutions in the province were each affected by student-led
protest during that year. The Rhodes ...
Appraisal, identity and gendered discourse in toilet graffit : a study in transgressive semiotics
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
This research is interested in the linguistic choices people use to express and negotiate subjective, inter-subjective and ideological positions through the graffiti within the confines of selected men's and women's toilets ...
A discourse analysis of narratives of identities and integration at the University of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)
In the thesis, I endeavour to create a platform on which to construct an understanding of 'integration' in a multilingual and multicultural setting, post-apartheid. I have selected UWC as the research site as it is an ...
Exercising linguistic citizenship through Coloured narratives
(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 ...
The language factor in students’ experience of assessments: A case study from the University of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Recent statistics show that 25% of university students in South Africa drop out in their first
year of study (Stats SA, 2018). This figure is all the more worrisome when older but still
relevant statistics are considered, ...