Browsing by Subject "Language policy"
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Children's rights to mother-tongue education in a multilingual world: a comparative analysis between South Africa and Germany
(2017)The importance of the mother tongue, and, more specifically, of mother-tongue education, is recognised globally. Use of the mother tongue is regarded as one of the most effective ways of acting and performing cognitively, ... -
The Impact of a University’s Language Policy on Its Library’s Print Collections
(UNISA, 2018)The aim of this study was to establish the impact of the North-West University’s language policy on its library’s print collections. It analyses the languages represented by books held by the North-West University Library ... -
Language Rights in Education in South Africa
(Higher Education South Africa (HESA), 2017)Realisation of multilingual education as a right has remained a controversial issue in South Africa. This is despite the Constitutional and legislative frameworks that support multilingual education. While the controversy ... -
Prolingua se bydrae tot terminologieontwikkeling in Afrikaans
(Bureau of the WAT, 2017)The research problem addressed in this article deals with the isolated development of Afrikaans terminology in a multilingual dispensation. The research problem manifests itself in three ways: the need for such terminology; ... -
Subtitling as an aid in academic literacy programmes: the University of Buea
(North-West University, 2009)The purpose of this study was to examine the role that the use of subtitling can play as an aid in academic literacy (AL) programmes, particularly against the background of insufficient AL levels at the University of Buea ... -
Taalbeleid in privaat hoëronderwys : Aros as gevallestudie
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)The research field of language planning is regarded as the umbrella term for organised enterprises to find solutions to language problems (Baldauf, 2012:234, Fishman, 1973:79, New Mexico & Hult, 2010:75). Language planning ... -
Tekens van meertaligheid by geselekteerde Suid-Afrikaanse universiteite : 'n analise vanuit linguistiese landskapsperspektief
(North-West University, 2009)Language landscape or linguistic landscape studies are a relatively new field of research within language sociology that has a specific interest in the public space (Shohamy, 2006:128). Linguistic landscape studies analyzes ...