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TASAMBO JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE, 2023 This article investigates the applicability and efficiency of the X-SAMPA phonetic transcription system for African languages, with a particular focus on the Hausa language.
M. Umar
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Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2023 Along with literacy, numeracy is considered a critical skill that impacts on the success or failure of learners in the formative stages of the schooling system.
Biki Lepota
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Hip-hop, Identity, and Cultural Hybridity: An Exploration of Motswako as a Bicultural Phenomenon [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesSouth Africa is a linguistically and culturally diverse country. South African locals normally assimilate more than one culture, officially and unofficially.
Kgomotso Mothokhumo Ambitious Theledi +1 more
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A Desktop Review of Linguistic Practices in Higher Education Post #FeesMustFall Protests: An Appraisal of Academy and Multilingual Citizenship [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesStudent protests nationwide in the form of #FeesMustFall in South Africa between 2015 and 2016 catalyzed a national conversation on decolonization, inclusivity and linguistic transformation in higher education.
Soyiso Khetoa
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Yoruba Studies Review, 2022 Language has long defined the discourse of African literature. Africa’s colonial experience has left its enduring legacy of colonial languages which have been imbibed to the detriment of the usage of indigenous African languages. Accordingly, even in the
Gifty Akua Nyarko, Rita Ndonibi
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Code-switching as an Instructional Strategy in a Multilingual Classroom Setting: Examining Its Effects on the instruction of the Sesotho Home Language [PDF]
Journal of Education and Learning TechnologyCode-switching remains an enduring and widespread feature of linguistic contact in many South African communities. This study investigated the pedagogical and sociolinguistic implications of code-switching in multilingual South African classrooms by ...
Soyiso Khetoa
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The Protest Tradition in African Literature: Symbolism in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah
Journal of Humanities,Music and Dance, 2023 critical examination of African literature will show that Africa before the advent of Europeans in Africa had two types of literature namely: oral literature and literature written in the indigenous languages.
Dr. Ben-Fred Ohia
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Ìgbélárugẹ Èdè: Akinwumi Isola’s Model for Promoting African Languages
Yoruba Studies Review, 2021 The ever-popular discussion in African literary circles is critically about language choices that African writers make in their creative endeavors. This is part of this write-up’s focus plus the plight of African languages with attention to the benefit ...
Akinloye Ojo
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African Literatures in the Portuguese Language: Singularities
The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 2023 AbstractThis article reflects on some textual and institutional elements that distinguish literary life in Portuguese-speaking African countries. These elements concern, firstly, the peculiarities of the Portuguese empire. Combining precarity, epistemological backwardness, and violence in equal proportion, it inspired an artistic response that was ...
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LINGUISTIC REVITALISATION AND THE DRAMA IN AFRICAN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES
UC Journal: ELT, Linguistics and Literature Journal, 2022 This paper explores the drama written in indigenous African languages across many countries in Africa. It highlights the intellectual snobbery suffered by drama written in indigenous languages, probing the reasons behind the critical marginalization.
P. Alex
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