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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 ...
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 ...
'Language has a heart': linguistic markers of evaluation in selected TRC testimonies

Bock, Zannie (Taylor & Francis, 2008)

This paper explores how two testifiers at the Human Rights Violation hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1996 used selected markers of evaluation (shifts in tense, the inclusion of direct ...
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 ...
"Speak out" - issues in participatory materials development

Bock, Zannie (University of Stellenbosch, 1999)

This article outlines the development of a beginner English course called 'Speak Out' for adults in Adult Basic Education and Training classes in the early 1990s. The course uses an innovative roleplay methodology which ...
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 ...
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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