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Foreign Language Annals, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 278-300, Spring 2026.Abstract There is little published research on school‐aged learners of Mandarin Chinese in anglophone contexts. This article explores English secondary school pupils' motivation for learning Chinese compared to European languages. The research questions were: (1) What is the strength and nature of pupils' self‐reported motivation for learning languages?
Robert Woore, Laura Molway, Clare Savory
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The family’s experience of having a mentally ill family member
Health SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 1998 The purpose of this study was firstly to explore and describe the experience of families with a mentally ill family member and secondly to describe guidelines (based on the results obtained) for the advanced psychiatric nurse practitioner to assist ...
Margaret Ngqoboka +2 more
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Ben Marais (1909-1999): The influences on and heritage of a South African Prophet during two periods of transformation [PDF]
, 2005 University of Pretoria / Dissertation / Department of Church History and Church Policy / Advised by Prof J W HofmeyrThis thesis in Church History presents a biographic study on the life of Ben Marais against the political and ecclesiastic background of ...
Maritz, Petrus Jacobus
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The analysis of a dominant gender discourse - Part 2
Health SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2002 Gender dilemmas are formed where a woman's role and identity is constructed in alternative ways, ways which do not cohere with the ways prescribed and expected within a dominant gender discourse.
Laetitia Zeeman +2 more
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Contradictory transformations: observations on the intellectual dynamics of South African universities [PDF]
, 2009 What sort of expectations of transformation of higher education have been aroused by liberation movements? Has the new South Africa fulfilled such expectations? This paper explores the promises and processes that have enveloped South African universities
Sheehan, Helena
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Child &Family Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 459-468, February 2026.ABSTRACT Theorizing continues to be a challenge within the burgeoning field of care leaving. This article considers whether ‘social capital’ contributes to explaining the care‐leaving experience. Various views of what constitutes social capital are explored, and a three‐category typology is presented.
Kwabena Frimpong‐Manso +3 more
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Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper [PDF]
, 2013 Includes bibliographical references.This dissertation analyses and compares the narrative strategies in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Marlene van Niekerk’s Die sneeuslaper and considers the implications of these strategies for the authors’ exploration of
Holtzhausen, Janita
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The cognitive role of concept variability
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 66-87, February 2026.I present and defend concept variability, the view that concepts can admit of indefinitely many variations and changes in their representational contents without thereby losing their identity. I argue that the variability of concepts is central to their role in enabling cognition, and thus that a concept's content variability is, despite philosophical ...
Alnica Visser
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Literator, 1999 Hesseling: a century later The Dutch linguist D.C. Hesseling was a pioneer of creole studies. The first evidence of Hesseling's interest in language contact and creole languages was his publications on Afrikaans.
F. Ponelis
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The construction and evaluation of a scale of employee empowerment
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2002 The purpose of this study was to construct and evaluate a scale of employee empowerment that may benefit organisational transformation. An Employee Empowerment Questionnaire consisting of 90 items was developed and administered to 164 respondents within ...
Vanessa J. Cloete +2 more
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