Bantu languages are Africa’s largest language family, found in virtually all areas of Africa below the equator. In southern Africa, however, small groups remain that speak languages of a very ...read more
Oral proficiency targets in foreign language learning are typically expressed in terms of intelligibility. However, what makes non-native speech intelligible and accented is ill understood. The proposed project examines the ...read more
We identify two main aims in the project. The first aim of this study project is to examine the reasons for the poor literacy performance of South African learners who ...read more
Dit doctoraatsproject heeft als doel het in kaart brengen van de vertelvaardigheden van een specifieke meertalige groep, namelijk Tuks-Nederlandstalige kinderen met en zonder taalstoornis, om in deze populatie karakteristieke markers ...read more
Radical Revenge? examines the relationship between subject formation and providentialism in Aristotelian tragedies, revenge tragedies and French-classicist tragedies in the Dutch Republic between 1638 and 1678. An attentive reading of ...read more
The project entails an ecopoetic inquiry into literary fiction on nature and ecology as a transcultural problem area within four interacting cultural regions (French, Germanophone, Anglophone, Italian). Central to this ...read more
The project aims to explore the cognitive load of sign language interpreting and compare it with oral interpreting. The premise aims to establish whether sign language interpreters face a comparable ...read more
If we ask you what we inherited from the Italian Renaissance, your thoughts will possibly run to the artworks that fascinate scholars and students all around the world. But, along with ...read more
The study explored women’ participation in the call centres industry in South Africa. In this context the call centre industry is viewed as a global industry that uses technology to ...read more