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Linguistiese eienskappe en konvensionalisering in Zefrikaans op die WatKykJy?-blog: ’n korpuslinguistiese ondersoek
(North-West University, 2019)Previous research on Afrikaans on the internet has mainly focused on older Web 1.0 web applications and not so much on the newer Web 2.0 web applications. Zefrikaans, a variety of Afrikaans, on the internet has been ... -
Die erosie van kiesersvertroue as faktor in die kontemporêre Suid-Afrikaanse demokrasie (1994-2017)/ The erosion of voter trust as a factor in the contemporary South African democracy (1994-2017)
(North-West University, 2019)Internationally, voter trust in political systems is recognized as key to successful democratic governance and the effective co-ordination of collective interaction between government and civil society. For the purpose of ... -
Verb complementation patternsin Black South African English
(North-West University, 2019)In this thesis, some of the features pertaining to the verb-complementational patterns in the writing of experienced Black South African English (BSAE) speakers were investigated. These features are the ditransitive ... -
A qualitative exploration of flourishing among nurses working in palliative care
(North-West University, 2019)This mini-dissertation presents the findings of a study that qualitatively explored flourishing, as conceptualised in the model proposed by Keyes (2013), among a sample of nurses working in palliative care in South Africa. ... -
FAMILY LANGUAGE POLICY: delibrate decisions by parents to educate their children via Afrikaans despite access to English in the family
(North-West University, 2019)Despite an expressed awareness of the hegemony and high status of English in the world today, there are English dominant and English-Afrikaans families within the Vaal Triangle Region, who opt for Afrikaans as the language ... -
Examining the retention policy of law enforcement: South African Police Service Zamdela cluster, Free State Province
(North-West University, 2019)This research examines the retention policy of the law enforcement: South African Police Service (SAPS) at Zamdela Cluster in the Free State Province. In order to make this examination specific attention is placed on ... -
Implementing multilingualism in the Emfuleni Local Municipality for communication purposes with the residents of Bophelong Township
(North-West University, 2019)This study is an investigation into the use of different languages between local government and the community. The purpose is to examine the implementation of multilingualism by Emfuleni Local Administration and the benefits ... -
Evaluation of participatory governance for enhancing quality of local governments: a case of six selected local governments in Central Uganda
(North-West University, 2019)Public participation in government programmes has gained prominence, the world over as it enhances democratisation good governance and quality of governments. Involving the public in government activities is associated ... -
Measuring the cognitive load induced by subtitled audiovisual texts in an educational context
(North-West University, 2019)Audiovisual aids are nowadays commonly utilised in classroom environments where lecturers are able to supplement verbal instruction with pictures or videos to enhance learning. To make these resources more accessible, ... -
ʼn Eeu van verandering in die gebruik van geselekteerde Afrikaanse voorsetsels en die moontlike rol van preskriptivisme daarin
(North-West University, 2018)In navorsing oor Afrikaans is voorsetsels ʼn sintaktiese kategorie wat nog nie baie bestudeer is in diachroniese studies van taalverandering nie. Voorsetsels, meer spesifiek voorsetselverbindinge, het reeds baie aandag ... -
Historically disadvantaged youth negotiating for resilience resources to navigate towards violence prevention
(North-West University, 2018)This phenomenological study applied participatory visual methods to explore the social ecology of resilience in a rural Free State community. The purpose of this study was to investigate how visual messages created and ... -
Rural resilience and historically disadvantaged young women’s negotiations for protection against gender-based violence
(North-West University, 2018)Research on gender-based violence proliferates. Yet there is little research on the resilience of young women faced with gender-based violence. The aim of my research study is to understand how social ecologies can best ... -
The experiences and motivation of unemployed people in South Africa: a person- and variable-centred perspective
(North-West University, 2018)The psychological impact of unemployment is well documented. Psychological well-being and (re)employment remains high on the agenda for professionals assisting the unemployed. Key in transitioning to employment are the ... -
The nature of participation in internet activism: the case of the #ZumaMustFall movement on Twitter
(North-West University, 2017)Political participation is a key principle in maintaining a healthy democracy by keeping governments and political parties accountable to the constituencies that elected them (Bimber, et al., 2015:22; Issakson, 2014:244; ... -
Reports of traumatic sexualisation in a group of female survivors of childhood sexual abuse
(North-West University, 2018)The main aim of this study was to explore what is known from literature and practice about traumatic sexualisation in a group of South African women, who had experienced childhood sexual abuse (CSA), and who participated ... -
Exploring experiences of unemployment in South African townships
(North-West University, 2018)This study aimed to perform an integrated examination of lived unemployment experiences in three successive investigations, presented as three research articles. South Africa’s unemployment rate has constantly increased ... -
Die verhouding tussen taal en sosiale integrasie in Suid-Afrika
(North-West University, 2018)Suid-Afrika bestaan uit 'n komplekse linguistiese landskap wat superdivers van aard is. As meertalige land met 11 amptelike tale kan linguistiese akkommodasie nie altyd tussen swart en wit Suid-Afrikaners plaasvind nie. ... -
Diabetes management behaviours of young adults towards psychological well-being
(North-West University, 2018)Significant numbers of young adults living with type 1 diabetes experience diminished psychological well-being due to non-adherence to the strict diabetes self-management care plan required. This study explored psychosocial ... -
Exploring wellness among sales and marketing staff within a global automotive company
(North-West University, 2017)Employees should be regarded as the most important asset in an organisation. Even though machinery and technology has become an important resource in organisational functioning, human capital are vital in determining ... -
The World Café as a data collection method in qualitative research in positive psychology
(North-West University, 2018)The dialogue emerging from a more positivistic paradigm is how approaches, other than the traditional ones, can be used to gather rich data (Schieffer, Isaacs, & Gyllenpalm, 2004), for example the World Café (WC) dialogue ...
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