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First-year university students' receptive and productive use of academic vocabulary
(University of Stellenbosch, 2016)The present study explores academic vocabulary knowledge, operationalised through the Academic Word List, among first-year higher education students. Both receptive and productive knowledge and the proportion between the ... -
First–year university students' productive knowledge of collocations
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2013)The present study examines productive knowledge of collocations of tertiary-level secondlanguage (L2) learners of English in an attempt to make estimates of the size of their knowledge. Participants involved first-year ... -
Flagging philosophical minefields at the Synod of Dort (1618–1619) – reformed Scholasticism reconsidered
(Scriber Editorial Systems, 2011)This article investigates the phenomenon of reformed Scholasticism (of about 1550-1700), as it occurred at the Synod of Dort (1618-1619) and its Canons. More specifically, it focuses on the central problem at the Synod, ... -
Flourishing in Work and Careers
(Springer, 2014)Mental health is an important career resource that will help individuals to be function optimally, be self-sufficient, adapt to change, manage their careers well. The aim of this chapter was to investigate the relationships ... -
Flourishing Interventions: A Practical Guide to Student Development
(Springer, 2014)This chapter presents a practical guide for the development of flourishing students. Flourishing is defined as a positive psychological state characterised by positive emotions, engagement, positive relationships, meaning ... -
Flourishing of information technology professionals: Effects on individual and organisational outcomes
(Association of Pofessional Managers in SA, 2014)The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between flourishing and individual and organisational outcomes, including job satisfaction, organisational commitment, organisational citizenship behaviour, turnover ... -
Flourishing of information technology professionals: the role of work engagement and job satisfaction
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Flourishing of information technology professionals: the role of work engagement and job satisfaction
(Elliott & Fitzpatrick & NISC [© 2010 Elliot & Fitzpatrick], 2013)This study investigated the relationship between work role fit, the availability of personal resources, supervisor relations, work engagement, job satisfaction and employee flourishing. A convenience sample (N = 205) was ... -
Flourishing of information technology professionals: the role of work engagement and job satisfaction
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This study investigated the relationship between work role fit, the availability of personal resources, supervisor relations, work engagement, job satisfaction and employee flourishing. A convenience sample (N = 205) was ... -
Flourishing of students in a tertiary education institution in South Africa.
(Elliott & Fitzpatrick & NISC [© 2010 Elliot & Fitzpatrick], 2012)The aims of this study were to examine the relationship between flourishing and academic performance (AP), life satisfaction (SWT), and positive affect (PA). A quantitative cross-sectional survey design was used on a ... -
Fluency/resistancy and domestication/foreignisation: a cognitive perspective
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2016)This paper argues for the addition of a cognitive perspective to the concepts of fluency/resistancy and domestication/foreignisation. Given the disjunctions between the ontological levels (and analytical levels of specificity) ... -
Flying on the wings of Vollenhoven's radical Christian worldview: a reconsideration of the usual typology of Christian worldviews
(Scriber Editorial Systems, 2012)This article investigated the traditional typology of Christian worldviews from the perspective of the Christian philosopher, D.H.Th. Vollenhoven (1892−1978). The usual categorisation started by Niebuhr (in 1951), and ... -
Focused intervention study and the promotion of effective oversight: experiences from the Gauteng Provincial Legislature
(SAAPAM, 2014)This aim of this paper is to analyse the experiences of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature (GPL) and its Focused Intervention Study (FIS) to demonstrate that oversight could be effective in serving public interests if it ... -
Folk music for children's choirs: the challenges and benefits of cultural diversity
(Taylor & Francis; NISC, 2010)In this article we investigate 'folk' music in the choral repertoire of children's choirs as a way of building bridges between diverse cultures within the context of regional children's choirs, with specific reference to ... -
For love or for money: intrinsic and extrinsic value congruence in recruitment
(Wiley, 2016)Answering the call for a more theory-driven approach in recruitment research, this article integrates insights from self-determination theory and value congruence to account for the attractiveness of respectable organizations ... -
For the like of the game: assessing the role of social media engagement in football consumer outcomes
(AJHTL, 2016)The rise of social media use has altered the marketing context globally. In this regard, sport consumerism in particular has been influenced by the need of fans to communicate in real time and through remote means accessed ... -
Foreign relations in the ancient near east: oaths, curses, kingship and prophecy
(UNISA Press, 2017)Oaths and curses, embedded in a covenantal context, were paramount normative mechanisms in the foreign relations between ancient Near Eastern kings. This article provides an account of the political role of covenants and ... -
The formation of South African English
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)Of all the major colonial varieties of English, South African English (SAfE) is arguably the most under-studied. Its linguistic history is also one of the most complex, South Africa having been the site of a series of ... -
Formulation and validation of an Enabling Developmental Environment Scale (EDES) for local economic development (LED)
(International Foundation for Research and Development (IFRD), 2017)Local government is one of the main role players in local economic development (LED) and need to assist in the creation of an enabling developmental environment for local businesses to prosper. Partnerships are required ... -
A fourth paradigm? Some thoughts on atheism in Old Testament scholarship
(OTWSA/OTSSA, 2012)In recent decades, OT scholarship has witnessed the emergence of undercurrents of what may be called a fourth paradigm. In contrast to the three familiar faith-based “paradigms,” this one is essentially atheistic. ...