Browsing by Subject "multilingualism"
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Accommodating and promoting multilingualism through blended learning
(North-West University, 2011)Multilingualism is a reality in South African classrooms. The Constitution of South Africa (Act 108 of 1996) and the national language policy recognize language rights and aims at supporting, promoting and developing the ... -
Congolese migrants and South African language appropriation
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Migration, the phenomenon of leaving one's country for another, is one of the most salient causes of language contact in the present era. Previously, migrants left their countries for ideological monolingual countries where ... -
Guiding Baptist Union Churches towards multiculturalism: developing a multicultural tool for globalising urban South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)When the “global village” joins the local church, some cultures are tempted to withdraw. What guidance is there for Baptist Union Churches undergoing demographic changes? Findings in missiology, anthropology, and intercultural ... -
Die moontlikhede wat onderskrifte die SABC-TV bied in die erkenning en beskerming van taalregte
(North-West University, 2003)The degree to which the SABC as public broadcaster gives shape to its language policy and language mandate, against the background of an investigation of language rights, establishes the central problem statement of this ... -
National lexicography units: past, present, future
(Bureau of the WAT; University of Stellenbosch, 2011)This article deals with the national dictionary offices of the previous bilingual dispensation, the eleven official national dictionary offices in the present multilingual dispensation, and the future prospects of these ... -
Promoting and preserving cultural identities through multilingual advertising: the case of Cameroon and South Africa
(Ponte Editore, 2017)Multilingualism and multiculturalism are vehicles that could be used to promote and preserve cultural identities in Cameroon and South Africa given their rich historical and cultural backgrounds. This paper investigates ... -
The return to reading: acquisition, reading research on narrative and the implications for a multilingual pedagogy for higher education in South Africa
(CSSALL (UKZN), 2012)As applied linguists, we still need, given the resurgence of interest and scholarship in multilingualism, to attend to research on developing and changing language pedagogy so that it is informed by cognitive linguistics ... -
The language repertoire of a Venda home language speaker: reflections on methodology
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Currently, there is a focus on the study of 'super-diverse' language repertoires in the field of sociolinguistics. New approaches advocate an emphasis on 'super- diverse' repertoires of individuals and new ways to conceive ... -
What is in a language: essentialism in macro-sociolinguistic research on Afrikaans
(De Gruyter, 2017)Essentialist conceptions about language, and the relationship between language and other things, are still fairly common in society, and to some extent in linguistics. It is of particular relevance when working with specific ...