6 articles in this issue
Christa van der Walt
This first number of Per Linguam in 2011 sees an extended Editorial Board and we would like to welcome the following esteemed scholars: Prof Colin Baker from the University of Wales (Bangor), a specialist in bilingual education;Prof Herman Batibo from the... see more
Rochelle Kapp,Moeain Arend
The focus of this paper is an analysis of the conceptualisation of language teaching and the construction of learners in the new National Senior Certificate grade 12 curriculum and examinations taken by students for whom English is an additional language.... see more
Andre Steenkamp,Marianna Visser
This article investigates the use of cognitive complexity analysis to inform the grading and sequencing of tasks for the purposes of curriculum design of a specific purposes isiXhosa course for student teachers. Two frameworks of cognitive complexity, tha... see more
Maxwell Kadenge,Catherine R Sibanda
This article falls under the broad area of child language acquisition and it aims to present an analysis of the acquisition of Shona noun class prefixes. The data collection procedures involved fortnightly observation and audio-recording of the spontaneou... see more
Shena Lamb,Zach Simpson
Academic writing is the primary means of assessing university students and feedback (oral or written responses) on writing can contribute significantly to student learning and success (Ferris, 2003; Hyland & Hyland, 2006). This study explores students’ ex... see more
Susan Brokensha
In the past decade, there have been a number of discourse analyses of the political in South Africa such as Botha’s (2001) study of deictic expressions in a speech by Thabo Mbeki, Moodley’s (2006) discursive analysis of the South African government’s Info... see more