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Using African languages at universities in South Africa: The struggle continues
Both the advent of democracy in 1994 and the adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa in …
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From physical to online spaces in the age of the #FeesMustFall protests: A Critical Interpretative Synthesis of writing centres in emergency situations
Writing centres play a vital role in guiding students in their academic writing. Central to this role is their physical …
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Aiming beyond the written, to the writer and writing: The writing consultation as a mentoring process for life-long writing
This article critically reflects on how writing centres can address the notion that their primary role is to deal with …
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Space, place, and power in South African writing centres: Special issue in honour of Sharifa Daniels
A writing center cannot define itself as a space—we’re often kicked out of our spaces. It’s not a pedagogy. We’re …
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Negotiating new ways of developing writing in disciplinary spaces: The changing role of writing consultants at the Wits School of Education Writing Centre
Writing centres in South African universities have historically been poorly recognised structures in higher education, and have largely been considered …
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Writing within simultaneity: A reflective progress report through letters from the Wits Writing Programme
Listening has long been understood as characteristic of writing centre practice, and as central to writing centre philosophy. This reflective …
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Writing centre consultants as critical friends
“Critical friend” is a term widely used in professional development, teacher education, and evaluation contexts. It is defined by Costa …
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Writing centres as dialogic spaces: Negotiating conflicting discourses around citation and plagiarism
Citation is fundamental in successfully constructing academic discourse. There has been much discussion concerning the considerable difficulties tertiary students experience …
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Exploring the gap between what we say and what we do: Writing centres, ‘safety’, and ‘risk’ in higher education
Writing centres are a well-established aspect of student academic support in many universities around the world. As much as there …
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Validating the performance standards set for language assessments of academic readiness: The case of Stellenbosch University
Twenty-five years into the post-apartheid period, South African universities still struggle to produce the number of graduates required for the …
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Extended exponence in isiNdebele morphology
This article discusses extended exponence and headedness in the context of isiNdebele morphology. An attempt will be made to distinguish …
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China Town as a multilingual workplace
Since the emergence of China within the BRIC[1]-group in 2001 (BRICS as from 2010), people of Chinese origin have gradually …
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An analysis of metaphorical idioms in South African Indian English
This study looks at a selected number of expressions used in the variety of English known as “South African Indian …
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Are dialects markers of ethnic identity? The case of Setswana dialects and ethnic groups
Many studies on dialects present language in neat, organised groupings that highlight similar language habits and linguistic features of people …
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Mind the Gap: Towards Determining Which Collocations to Teach
Collocations form part of formulaic language use that is considered by many scholars as central to communication (Henriksen 2013; Wray …
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Definition and design: aligning language interventions in education
The management of language diversity and the mastery of language required by educational institutions affect those institutions from early education …
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Speaker’s reference, semantic reference and public reference
Kripke (1977) views Donnellan’s (1966) misdescription cases as cases where semantic reference and speaker’s reference come apart. Such cases, however, …
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A pseudo-consecutive non-canonical serial verb construction in isiXhosa
This snippet contributes to the study of less canonical Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs) of a multi-clausal consecutive origin. The author …
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Recontextualisation and reappropriation of social and political discourses in toilet graffiti at the University of the Western Cape
Applying notions of interdiscursivity, commodification of discourse (Fairclough 1993) and semiotic remediation (Bolter and Grusin 2000), this paper analyses toilet …
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A heuristic framework for voice instruction at the doctoral level
The notion of voice as an integral aspect of language use has been extensively theorised in linguistics. However, empirical research …
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