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Choice of language for learning and assessment: the role of learner identity and perceptions in informing these choices
(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 ...
Memory and representation: Robben Island Museum 1997-1999
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)
The notion of what constitutes a nation has been a subject of many debates. The nation, like individual is the culmination of a long past of endeavours, sacrifice and devotion. The post aprtheid project of reconciliation ...
Blaming the others: refugee men and HIV risk in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
This study investigated the societal perception of refugee men as being a risk group, being polluted and the consequent risk of HIV infection they might face. It also determined the factors that could expose them to the ...
Grammatical constraints and motivations for English/Afrikaans codeswitching: evidence from a local radio talk show
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
The study investigated the practice of codeswitching within the Cape Flats speech community of Cape Town. Members of this speech community have always been exposed to both English and Afrikaans in formal as well as informal ...
Assessing patterns of language use and identity among Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
This study explored Cameroonian migrants language use and the various language forms they use to manifest their identity. It also dealt with multicultural/multilingual people in an equally multicultural/multilingual society ...
An ethnographic study of the barriers to intercultural communication in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)
Intercultural communication (ICC) is one of the most relevant fields for investigation in post-colonial Africa and post-apartheid South Africa, given the movements between people from African countries and the wide range ...
Historical development of Islamic libraries internationally and in South Africa: A case study of the Islamic Library in Gatesville
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)
The purpose of this study was to examine the historical development of Islamic libraries internationally and in South Africa and to examine the Islamic Library in Gatesville as a case study to understand in which way ...
The ‘silent’ privatisation of urban public space in Cape Town, 1975 – 2004
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
South African cities were subjected to artificial, unnatural growth patterns brought about by apartheid planning that legitimated exclusionary practices in the city and which created and maintained racial, social and class ...
Tourism and multilingualism in Cape Town: language practices and policy
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)
Language diversity continues to create a language barrier to international tourism. Tourists from non-English speaking countries face a language barrier in South Africa and this affects their experiences in the country. ...
The Provision of Library and Information Services to Gays and Lesbians in Cape Town’s Public Libraries
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)
The research project is based on the belief that Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender (LGBT) people have specific information needs and interests that public libraries should cater for. The philosophical literature of ...