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Choice of language for learning and assessment: the role of learner identity and perceptions in informing these choices.
(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 profile of multilingual skills of young adult Xhosa mother tongue speakers
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
In South Africa, a country with 11 official languages, bilingualism and multilingualism are common language features across the population. Out of this context popular and untested claims, relating to the extent and value ...
What is the relationship between the home language and literacy backgrounds of Afrikaans-speaking learners and their proficiency in English?
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)
In this study, which is an example of three ethnographic type case studies, I explore the relationship between the literacy backgrounds and home language of Afrikaans speaking learners and their proficiency in English. ...
Archaisms of Kinyarwaanda: a sociolinguistic study
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)
This is a socio-historical study of the Kinyarwaanda language. On the basis of the method
of internal reconstruction and the method of the Principal Components Analysis (PCA),
the study analyses linguistic variations ...