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Evaluating the Challenges Experienced by Grade Three Teachers when Teaching Reading Proficiency in Xitsonga Home Language Classrooms in Limpopo province, South Africa [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
The aim of this study was to explore the challenges experienced by grade three teachers when teaching reading proficiency to Xitsonga Home Language learners. A qualitative approach was used with an interpretive research paradigm.
Rachel Basani Mabasa-Manganyi , Khashane Stephen Malatji, Tozama Jane Mthembu   +2 more
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The link between learner performance in early reading literacy and what is happening in the Grade 1 classroom

South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2022
Background: Developing reading skills depends on how learners are taught to read in the classroom. Previous research showed that academic achievement is strongly affected by pedagogical content knowledge and lack of appropriate professional development.
Martha Khosa
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Who benefits the most from peer effects within ethnic group ? Empirical evidence on the South African Labour Market [PDF]

, 2011
URL des Documents de travail : http://centredeconomiesorbonne.univ-paris1.fr/bandeau-haut/documents-de-travail/Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 2011.44 - ISSN : 1955-611XThis paper provides evidence that local social interactions ...
Bourquin, Yannick, Ferrant, Gaëlle
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Our law is constitutional law, and it has rights*

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 234-243, November 2024.
Abstract Indigenous Southern Africans say that their laws are fundamentally grounded in the principle of Ubu‐Ntu (humane‐ness), but their communities are found empirically to often show the opposite of that law. Why is this? What is the law to which they lay claim to having? What are its roots and how can we reliably trace and know them?
Sindiso MnisiWeeks
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating a mental health intervention into PrEP services for South African young women: a human‐centred implementation research approach to intervention development

Journal of the International AIDS Society, Volume 27, Issue S1, July 2024.
Abstract Introduction Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) who may benefit from HIV pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) face high levels of common mental disorders (e.g. depression, anxiety). Common mental disorders can reduce PrEP adherence and increase HIV risk, yet mental health interventions have not been well‐integrated into PrEP delivery.
Jennifer Velloza, Nomhle Ndimande‐Khoza, Lisa Mills, Tessa Concepcion, Sanele Gumede, Hlukelo Chauke, Ruth Verhey, Dixon Chibanda, Sybil Hosek, Bryan J. Weiner, Connie Celum, Sinead Delany‐Moretlwe   +11 more
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A sociolinguistic analysis of terms of address in Xitsonga literary texts

Literator
Terms of address are typically used by interlocutors in spoken and written discourse. These terms serve a variety of functions across languages and cultures, reflecting social hierarchies, politeness, familiarity, and interpersonal relations. Despite the
Respect Mlambo, Muzi Matfunjwa
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The syntax-phonology mapping of intonational phrases in complex sentences: a flexible approach [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper, we extend to complex sentences the proposal that the notion of clause in Align/Match constraints related to the syntax-prosody mapping of the intonational phrase should be determined in each language (and each construction) by making ...
Hamlaoui, F, Szendroi, K
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Building Text and Speech Benchmark Datasets and Models for Low‐Resourced East African Languages: Experiences and Lessons

Applied AI Letters, Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2024.
This paper discusses the process taken to create, curate and annotate text and speech corpus for low‐resourced languages in East Africa. ABSTRACT Africa has over 2000 languages; however, those languages are not well represented in the existing natural language processing ecosystem.
Joyce Nakatumba‐Nabende, Claire Babirye, Peter Nabende, Jeremy Francis Tusubira, Jonathan Mukiibi, Eric Peter Wairagala, Chodrine Mutebi, Tobius Saul Bateesa, Alvin Nahabwe, Hewitt Tusiime, Andrew Katumba   +10 more
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Cognate objects of weather verbs in African languages of South Africa –from synchronic variation to a grammaticalization path

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017
The authors argue that the synchronic variation of cognate objects of weather verbs exhibited in six African languages of South Africa (Sepedi, Sesotho, Tshivenda, isiXhosa, Xitsonga, and isiZulu) has a diachronic explanation, and may be represented as a
Andrason, Alexander, Visser, Marianna W.
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No. 04: Silenced by Nation-Building: African Immigrants and Language Policy in the New South Africa [PDF]

, 1998
All people in South Africa have constitutionallyguaranteed language rights. To what extent do these rights apply to non-citizens and are they actually observed by various state departments and officials?
Crawhall, Nigel, Reitzes, Maxine
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