• What about speech acts? A comparative analysis of speech acts in isiZulu and English for the development of business writing skills in English second language learners. 

  Nyangiwe, Bulelwa Lynette. (2021)

  The current study investigates students' awareness and challenges with using speech acts and politeness in written business correspondence. The research is motivated by the researcher's observations and experience as an ...

• Issues in Zimbabwean Ndebele relatives and relativisation. 

  Dube, Progress. (2021)

  This study discusses issues in relatives and relativisation in Ndebele, a Nguni language that is mainly spoken in western parts of Zimbabwe. The study focuses on four major issues: (1) the status and the position of the ...

• Two types of phrasal compound in cinyanja. 

  Njobvu, Naomi. (2020)

  Phrasal compounds such as two-for-the-price-of-one sales pose problems for linguistic theories because they behave like words, but clearly include syntactic phrases. The main aim of this thesis is to analyse two types of ...

• Multilingual writing pedagogy for African languages in the monolingual education setting: literacy development for multilingual children in Rwanda (Grades 1-3) 

  Amini Ngabonziza, Jean De Dieu.

  This study investigates multilingual literacy practices in Rwanda. It first assesses selected writings produced by young children whose L1 is Oluchiga while learning writing skills in Kinyarwanda (L2) in Grade 1 to Grade ...

• A critical discourse analysis, through deconstruction and reconstruction of Grade 8 English language textbooks in light of the Hizmet humanistic philosophy for the purpose of character education. 

  Duymun-Demirtaş, Naailah. (2019)

  The English language textbook as a vehicle of linguistic and general knowledge can at times contain topics which may not be appropriate for the diverse learners in a South African Grade 8 classroom. The focus of this ...

• A comparative study of SV/VS word order in Arabic and Bantu. 

  Shakhatreh, Mohammad Gaseem. (2018)

  This thesis studies the SV/VS word orders in Bantu languages and Arabic dialects. This word orders alternation is correlated with other grammatical features as well as semantic/pragmatic readings of the constituents. The ...

• A comparative study of selected ellipsis constructions in English and IsiZulu. 

  Bevis, Andrew John. (2018)

  This work is a comparative study of verb phrase ellipsis (and verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis), sluicing and gapping, along with some of their subtypes, in English and the Bantu language isiZulu. The goal of the present ...

• Towards an emerging "coconut tree missiological imagination" : an enquiry into climate change and its relevance for ministerial formation at Tangintebu Theological College 

  Timon, Tioti. (2018)

  This study examines the ways in which the phenomenon of climate change is affecting the people, indigenous culture, and environment of the Micronesian island nation of Kiribati, in the South Pacific. Even though climate ...

• An exploration of religio-cultural concepts of transgender identities in Ethiopian Zionist churches in the Midlands, KZN. 

  Sithole, Sindisiwe Gloria. (2019)

  Transgender people experience incongruence between their gender identity and sex assigned at birth. In South Africa, the transgender population has remained an invisible population until the development of organisations ...

• Church and poverty : towards a prophetic solidarity model for the United Church of Zambia's participation in poverty eradication in Zambia. 

  Simukonda, Joseph Darius. (2018)

  Religion is one of the forces that is strategically positioned in society to contribute to the socioeconomic development. Both secular and religious organisations are unanimous that religion should be a critical partner ...

• (Re)construction de l’image, de l’identité féminine africaine et la Rébellion féminine contre le pouvoir préétabli: Représentation des femmes noires africaines dans des romans féminins spécifiques des années 1980: Analyse des romans écrits par Angèle Rawiri, Calixthe Beyala, Evelyne Mpoudi Ngolle et Nafissatou Niang Diallo. 

  Dola, Pita Rui. (2018)

  Ayant son origine après l'indépendance des pays africains, dans les années 1970/1980, la littérature féminine francophone s’avère enrichissante. Avec l’arrivée de la femme dans le monde romanesque, les thèmes, le style et ...

• Semantic disparities and discrepancies in translations of the Holy Qur’an into English. 

  Muhammad, Muhammad Sulieman Adam. (2016)

  This is a comparative analysis of selected verses from a number of Sûrahs (or Chapters) in six English translations of the Holy Qur‟ân, at a sentence, clause, phrase, word and, where useful, the morpheme level, using the ...

• A critical analysis of the relationship between literacy and disadvantage: a case study of grade 11 literacy practices in a township school. 

  Haricharan, Dhanwanthie. (2016)

  South Africa is currently in an educational crisis as evidenced by the performance of learners in a myriad of high stakes tests that they are exposed to. It has been established that this state of crisis is strongly ...

• Language attitudes as a change agent for language vitality : a case study of two Khoesan languages in Platfontein (RSA). 

  Jones, Kerry Lee. (2017)

  Khoesan languages are considered an endangered language family. This study investigates how language attitudes influence language vitality intergenerationally in a case study of two Khoesan languages, namely !Xun and ...

• Narrative text production in L1 IsiZulu/L2 English speaking children from rural KwaZulu-Natal : a case study based on the wordless picture books Abongi’s Journey (Saadien-Raad and Rosser, 2004) and frog, where are you? (Mayer, 1969). 

  Jiyane (nee Mntungwa), Mbali Gloria. (2017)

  The investigation of children’s narrative skills is important as they yield literate language use and a child’s comprehending abilities (Curenton and Justine 2004) and at the same time provide access to a child’s level of ...

• Le marronnage paradigmatique dans la littérature africaine francophone contemporaine : d' Ahmadou Kourouma à Kossi Efoui. 

  Awezaye, Mwilarhe Philip Ciza. (2016)

  This research considers two authors Ahamdou Kourouma and Kossi Efoui in a context of paradigm shift to query the contemporary Francophone African literature discourse. The assumption about contemporary African Francophone ...

• Locatives in Kinyarwanda. 

  Ngoboka, Jean Paul. (2016)

  This study, titled Locatives in Kinyarwanda, is about Kinyarwanda, a language spoken in Rwanda and its neighboring countries. It aims to investigate issues related to locatives and locative constructions in Kinyarwanda, ...

• Language typology and l3 transfer phenomena in adult learners : the case of lingala-French speakers learning English. 

  Kabasele, Philothe Mwamba. (2017)

  Abstract available in PDF file.

• La représentation de l’hégémonie, le pouvoir et la migration dans les romans sélectionnés d’Abdourahman A. Waberi, Nadifa Mohamed et Ken Bugul. 

  Chilembwe, Maxwell Kelvin Dziko. (2017)

  Abstract available in PDF file.

• Code-switching during church sermons: implications on language development. 

  Dladla, Celimpilo Piety. (2017)

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