English is the global language of communication in technology, science, medicine, education,
business and the internet. Due to its importance, in recent decades many countries in EFL contexts
including Mozambique have ...
Large populations of migrants flee from poverty in the African continent, and flock to South Africa. One of the socio-economic migrant groups that travel in numbers to settle in Johannesburg, South Africa for economic ...
This qualitative research investigates the limitations and challenges encountered by early childhood learners of English enrolled in public primary schools in Dhaka and Kolkata. Both cities, located in the eastern region ...
Students in higher education have to learn reading strategies in order to succeed in their studies. Reading is one of the four basic language skills that can lead to a successful academic career and productive personal ...
The present research explores an Academic Writing module (EAW101), which is offered under the Department of English Studies in a South African Open Distance e-Learning (ODeL) University. The EAW101 module is known for its ...
The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences and challenges of lecturers and students using English as the medium of instruction (EMI) for teaching and learning at a public technical and vocational education ...
This study explores the attitudes and perceptions of parents, teachers and the school governing body towards home languages as languages of learning and teaching, and their preference for using certain languages for teaching ...
This study affirms the contention that language is a tool that politicians use to construe their experiences of the world. Hence, Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics, with focus on ideational meta function as a ...
This study explored first-year students’ perceptions and challenges of using podcasts and vodcast to enhance academic writing skills. Academic writing challenges faced by first-year students at an Open Distance e-Learning ...
Research indicates that a substantial number of students entering higher education institutions lack the foundational academic reading skills, strategies, and approaches necessary for meaningful engagement with texts in ...
This study discusses how the concepts of home and displacement are portrayed in the
selected novels of two Southern African writers: We Need New Names (2013) by
Zimbabwe born and USA based author, NoViolet Bulawayo, and ...
Several African literary texts and the critical responses to these texts have engaged extensively with the varied ways in which men and women have been both complicit in and active perpetrators of gendered oppression and ...
This study investigates the negotiation of violence by analysing how the selected texts, The House of Hunger by Damudzo Marechera, Harvest of Thorns by Shimmer Chinodya, The Uncertainty of Hope by Valerie Tagwira and Half ...
Academic essay writing also known as student writing, tends to be a challenging task for first-year students in most universities worldwide and in particular for first-year students in English second language contexts in ...
This study aims to evaluate the implementation of English-medium instruction (EMI) in both a public and a private university in Pakistan. The goals are to investigate: the role of linguistic capital in reproducing educational ...
The anthropomorphised linguistic and social world in which animals are given human voice originated in the literary genre of the animal fable. Over the centuries this has changed from being, predominantly moralistic stories ...
English is the global language of communication in technology, science, medicine, education, business and the internet. Due to its importance, in recent decades many countries in EFL contexts including Mozambique have ...
The growing scope and significance of the "Non-European" in English fiction: a rapid survey of works of writers about countries where the enigma appears
This study explores classroom language practices of English Second Language (ESL) teachers in three primary schools in the Oshana Educational Region of Namibia; one urban school and two rural schools. This qualitative study ...
This study aimed to explore and make visualisations of Deleuzian Rhizomatic Patterns in first-year students’ writing samples of academic writing. Online interactions on myUnisa’s online discussion forums and the Microsoft ...