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    Ten years of democracy: attitudes and identity among some South African school children 

    Dyers, Charlyn (Stellenbosch University, 2004)
    Ten years into South Africa’s democracy, how do school children feel about themselves as part of specific groups, and what is the role of language in their socio-cultural identities? This paper looks at the ways in which ...
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    Language shift or maintenance? Factors determining the use of Afrikaans among some township youth in South Africa 

    Dyers, Charlyn (Stellenbosch University, 2008)
    To investigate how high school learners in a township school in South Africa report on their use of, and attitudes toward, their first language, Afrikaans; and to use the findings to show how, given their particular ...
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    Uncovering and negotiating barriers to intercultural communication at Greenmarket Square, Cape Town's 'world in miniature': an insider's perspective 

    Dyers, Charlyn; Wankah, Foncha John (Stellenbosch University, 2010)
    Intercultural communication (ICC) is one of the most relevant fields for investigation in postcolonial Africa and post-apartheid South Africa, given the freedom of movement between African countries and the wide range of ...
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    Ideology, policy and implementation: Comparative perspectives from two African universities 

    Dyers, Charlyn; Abongdia, Jane-Francis (Stellenbosch University, 2014)
    This paper provides an exposition and interpretation of the language policies of two African universities, namely the University of Yaound in Cameroon and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. It does so ...
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    Texting literacies as social practices among older women 

    Dyers, Charlyn (Stellenbosch University, 2014)
    While many studies on mobile messaging have tended to focus on the communicative practices of the urban young, this paper considers the role of mobile messaging (also called texting) both as a social practice as well as ...
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    An investigation into current attitudes towards English at the University of the Western Cape 

    Dyers, Charlyn (Stellenbosch University, 1997)
    This work-in-progess paper describes the writer's current research into the language attitudes, preferences and usage of the student speech community at the University of the Western Cape. It specifically looks at responses ...
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    Factors influencing the sustainability of university centres promoting multilingualism in South Africa 

    Dyers, Charlyn (HESA; Unisa Press, 2004)
    The main question addressed by this article is: How can multilingual language centres based at universities ensure their long term sustainability? Research was carried out at three centres in the Western Cape to find the ...
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    Post-modern ‘languagers’: the effects of texting by university students on three South African languages 

    Dyers, Charlyn; Davids, Gaironesa (Taylor & Francis, 2015)
    The present post-modern society has witnessed a growth spurt in technology, and with the development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), mobile text messaging (texting) is now seen as the norm among the ...
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    Emotion, voice and agency: exploring the written discourses of some township women in South Africa 

    Dyers, Charlyn; Williams, Meggan; Barthus, Tatum (Taylor & Francis, 2012)
    This paper is an analysis of the discourses and attitudes that emerged from a set of daily journals kept by a particular group of township women during a training course for domestic workers in South Africa. The principal ...
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    Epistemological access through lecture materials in multiple modes and language varieties: the role of ideologies and multilingual literacy practices in student evaluations of such materials at a South African University 

    Antia, Bassey E.; Dyers, Charlyn (Springer, 2016)
    This paper seeks to address the ways in which ideology and literacy practices shape the responses of students to an ongoing initiative at the University of the Western Cape aimed at diversifying options for epistemological ...
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    Antia, Bassey E. (2)Abongdia, Jane-Francis (1)Barthus, Tatum (1)Davids, Gaironesa (1)Wankah, Foncha John (1)Williams, Meggan (1)SubjectSouth Africa (4)Language policy (3)Epistemological access (2)Higher education (2)Ideology (2)Language (2)Language diversification (2)Literacy practices (2)Texting (2)University of the Western Cape (2)... View MoreDate Issued2010 - 2020 (8)2000 - 2009 (3)1997 - 1999 (1)

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