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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 ...
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 ...
A discourse analysis of a personal narrative told by an adolescent boy in a Cape Town children's home.
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)
Storytelling serves many purposes. People often tell stories as a coping mechanism, as a way of self-representation, and as a means for self-reflection. Through stories, narrators construct identities and gain perspective ...
Affective, cognitive and social factors affecting Japanese learners of English in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
This research used diary studies and interviews with five Japanese learners of English to investigate the different affective, cognitive and social factors that affected their learning of English in Cape Town between 2004 ...
Multilingual Landscapes : The Politics of Language and Self in a South African Township in Transformation
(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 ...
Multimodality and Negotiation of Cape Flats Identity in Selected Daily Voice Front pages
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)
This thesis explores the social semiotic relationship of visual and verbal signs of the Daily Voice tabloid as a way to show how the social context influences meaning of the signs used in its multimodal frontpages. The ...
Multilingual/multicultural aspects of visual literacy and interpretation in multimodal educational communication
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)
The aim of this thesis was to investigate the use of visual images in print texts produced for language teaching and learning. It tested the manner in which learners from different cultural contexts relate to selected ...
Language attitudes, medium of instruction and academic performance: a case study of Afrikaans mother tongue learners in Mitchell's Plain
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)
The purpose of this study was to determine the implication for learning for learners whose home language is different from the medium of instruction at school.The study is focused on a group of Afrikaans learners for whom ...
The Application of Dual-medium and parallel-medium models of bi-lingual education at two primary schools in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
This study is an investigation of the application of dual-medium and parallel-medium models of bilingual schooling as implemented at two historically disadvantaged primary schools in the Western Cape. The author assumes ...