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Challenges faced by High School Learners in English First Additional Language Reading Comprehension in the Soshanguve Township, South Africa [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This study investigated the challenges faced by Grade 10 learners in English First Additional Language (EFAL) reading comprehension at a high school in Soshanguve Township, South Africa.
Getrude Leboho, Florence Olifant, Madoda Cekiso   +2 more
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An exploration into Penultimate and Final Lengthening in Tswana (Southern Bantu)

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2021
This study investigates the segmental lengthening patterns resulting from prosodic boundaries in Tswana, a Southern Bantu language. The aim is to shed light on the interaction between Penultimate Lengthening and Final Lengthening, providing the first ...
Schubö, Fabian , Bekker, Ian , Rigardt Pretorius, Wagner, Valencia , Zerbian, Sabine   +4 more
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Examining the contribution of taboos (Amazilo) towards eco-beneficial practices: Evidence from Ndebele linguistic wisdom

Sustainable Environment
Although environmental conservation has emerged as a prominent concern among researchers globally, much interest has been confined to the natural sciences.
Busani Maseko, Bhekezakhe Ncube
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Consumptive and Non-Consumptive Uses of Water Beetles (Aquatic coleopterans) in Sub-Saharan Traditional Rituals

Insects, 2023
The use of wild animals in customary rituals and as a sustenance resource is a longstanding tradition within sub-Saharan Africa. The emergence of commercial trade, has, however, created unattainable demands and has led to the overexploitation of animals.
Lucky Nhlanhla Mnisi, Nompumelelo Zondi, Innocent Pikirayi   +2 more
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Prehistoric Bantu-Khoisan language contact [PDF]

, 2017
International ...
Bostoen, Koen, Gunnink, Hilde, Pakendorf, Brigitte, Sands, Bonny   +3 more
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Investigating the Onomastic necessity of using Afrocentric names over Eurocentric ones in the renaming of South African Geographical Features [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This article investigated the onomastic need to use Afrocentric names as replacements for Eurocentric ones when renaming South African geographical features.
Francinah M. Motupa, Tebogo J. Rakgogo, Yanga L.P. Majola   +2 more
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Multilingual contestations and the reproduction of English legitimacy in bottom-up linguistic landscape: an analysis of shop signs in Bulawayo

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Linguistic landscape refers to language visibility on public signs. This includes language on public buildings, street names and shop signs. The configuration of the linguistic landscape of an area is often shaped by extra-linguistic systems such as the ...
Liqhwa Siziba, Busani Maseko
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Strategies for building wordnets for under-resourced languages: The case of African languages

Literator, 2017
The African Wordnet Project (AWN) aims at building wordnets for five African languages: Setswana, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho sa Leboa (also referred to as Sepedi or Northern Sotho) and Tshivenda.
Sonja E. Bosch, Marissa Griesel
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The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans. [PDF]

, 2009
Africa is the source of all modern humans, but characterization of genetic variation and of relationships among populations across the continent has been enigmatic. We studied 121 African populations, four African American populations, and 60 non-African
A. A. Awomoyi, A. Froment, A. Ranciaro, A. T. Juma, Batini, Behar, Bereir, C. Ehret, C. Wambebe, Campbell, Cann, Cerny, Chen, Coia, Destro-Bisol, F. A. Reed, F. R. Friedlaender, Forster, Forster, Friedlaender, G. Lema, G. S. Pretorius, H. Mortensen, Hassan, J. B. Hirbo, J. H. Moore, J. L. Weber, J.-M. Bodo, Jakobsson, K. Powell, Li, Lind, M. A. Thera, M. Ibrahim, M. J. Kotze, M. W. Smith, O. Doumbo, Parra, Parra, Patin, Patterson, Pritchard, Pritchard, Reed, Reynolds, Rosenberg, Rosenberg, Rosenberg, S. A. Omar, S. A. Tishkoff, S. M. Williams, Salas, Scozzari, Semino, Sirugo, Smith, T. B. Nyambo, Tishkoff, Tishkoff, Verdu, Wang, Wood   +61 more
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How is their word knowledge growing? Exploring Grade 3 vocabulary in South African township schools

South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2017
In this article, we report on a study that examined the active and receptive English vocabulary of two different groups of Grade 3 learners in South African township schools. The groups consisted of English Home Language (HL) learners in the Western Cape
Elizabeth J. Pretorius, Lieke Stoffelsma
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