Browsing Humanities by Author "10095519 - Van Rooy, Albertus Jacobus (Supervisor)"
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An assessment of high school pupils' attitudes towards the pronunciation of black South African English
Van Rooyen, Susanna Francina (North-West University (South Africa), Vaal Triangle Campus, 2001)South African English (SAE) represents a conglomerate of many different varieties, which used to be identified by ethnic labeling. One such variety is Black South African English (BSAE), the English of English second ... -
Attitudes to English with particular reference to black South African English
Schumacher, Anke Annette (North-West University, 2005)South Africa recognises eleven official languages. Of those eleven, English is regarded as a lingua franca and as the language of business and education. For this reason, English is afforded significant status in South ... -
Automatic genre classification of English students' argumentative essays using support vector machines
Raaff, Sabrina (North-West University, 2007)Automatic text classification refers to the classification of texts according to topic. Similar to text classification is the automatic classification of texts based on stylistic aspect of texts, such as automatic genre ... -
A broader concept of World Englishes for educational contexts: applying the "WE enterprise" to Japanese Higher Education Curricula
D'Angelo, James Frank (2016)This study investigates the application of the world Englishes (WE) paradigm to English language teaching (ELT) in the higher education context of Japan, as well as the possible application of competing paradigms that also ... -
Corpus-based analysis of cohesion in written English essays of Nigerian tertiary learners
Adeyemi, Remilekun Iyabo (North-West University (South Africa), Vaal Triangle Campus, 2017)The English language is the second and official language of Nigeria. English language teachers continue to complain about the poor quality of undergraduates written English texts in Nigerian universities. One of the ... -
Decolonising academic texts in South African higher education : publishing and editing strategies
Scott, Linda (North-West University (South Africa), 2023)The continued prioritisation of Western knowledge and perspectives in South African higher education gave rise for the decolonisation of education in 2015/2016, which sought to challenge the hegemony of Western knowledge ... -
A diachronic analysis of the progressive aspect in Black South African English
Piotrowska, Carolina Monika (2014)Current research into language change and evolution focuses on native varieties of English, Schneider’s (2007) settler strand, but we have little knowledge concerning diachronic changes in non-native varieties of English, ... -
Evaluation in business discourse
Magocha, Keoneng Know (North-West University, 2010)The aim of the thesis is to explore, from a linguistic perspective, the construction and maintenance of interaction in documents in which directives are conveyed in business communication correspondence, in order to input ... -
Die gebruik van metadiskoers in Afrikaans T1–skryfwerk van eerstejaar–universiteitstudente
Jordaan, Adéle (North-West University, 2014)Students’ argumentative writing is substandard in the sense that the necessary relations, amongst other things, are not indicated in their texts. These texts also often lack an author’s voice. In a module such as academic ... -
Grammatikale veranderinge in Afrikaans van 1911 tot 2010
Kirsten, Johanita (2016)In the past few decades, the investigation of grammatical change using electronic corpora has made headway internationally. Although linguists previously believed that grammatical changes progress too slowly to observe, ... -
Die internet as platform vir 'n nuwe Afrikaanse spraakgemeenskap en 'n nuwe variëteit : 'n korpuslinguistiese ondersoek
Van Vuuren, Marieta Jansen (North-West University, 2007)It is generally accepted that the growing interest in the internet has opened new horisons for language research. The aim with this study is to explore the internet as a dynamic language environment and to investigate ... -
Laaste spore van Nederlands in Afrikaanse werkwoorde
Kirsten, Johanita (North-West University, 2013)In the diachronic studies of Afrikaans in the past, the focus used to be on the origin and early development of Afrikaans from Dutch. During the twentieth century, the philological school, with a tradition of researching ... -
Language contact and change through translation in Afrikaans and South African English : a diachronic corpus-based study
Redelinghuys, Karien Reinette (North-West University (South Africa), 2019)Languages are constantly changing and there are numerous reasons as to why languages change. One of these is contact-induced language change. It refers to the situation where languages synchronically influence one another ... -
Linguistic densification in web-based English : comparing grammatical features of density across registers
Van Zyl, Maryka (North-West University (South Africa), 2021)This dissertation is an investigation of grammatical patterns related to the density of noun phrases in online and offline registers of English. Noun phrase density involves embedding phrasal and clausal modifiers and ... -
Linguistiese eienskappe en konvensionalisering in Zefrikaans op die WatKykJy?-blog: ’n korpuslinguistiese ondersoek
Van der Walt, Amanda (North-West University (South Africa), 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 ... -
Linguistiese eienskappe van propaganda
Maritz, Anna Petro (North-West University (South Africa). Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2019)In previous studies on the linguistic properties of propaganda, Critical Discourse Analysis is mostly used and the focus is therefore on the analysis of a specific text and power relations. The linguistic properties of ... -
Linking adverbials in first, second and foreign language English student writing corpora
Henning, Johanna Gertruida (North-West University, 2006)In the South African secondary and tertiary education system writing is a very important part of the curriculum. Students are expected to master basic writing skills in order to learn how to write longer argumentative ... -
Lockdown language : online communication in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
Piotrowska, Carolina Monika (North-West University (South Africa), 2022)Linguistic studies on South African Englishes and the multilingual repertoires of local citizens have been growing in recent years. Seminal work is being done to describe South African Englishes from phonological, ... -
MarkWrite : standardised feedback on ESL student writing via a computerised marking interface
Louw, Henk (North-West University, 2011)The research reported on in this thesis forms part of the foundation of a bigger research project in which an attempt is made to provide better, faster and more efficient feedback on student writing. The introduction ... -
Modality on trek : diachronic changes in written South African English across text and context
Wasserman, Gertruida Petronella (North West University, 2014)This study describes the diachronic development of modality in South African English (henceforth SAfE) from the early 19th century up to its contemporary state (1820s to 1990s) in the registers of letters, news, fiction/narrative ...