Eybers, Oscar Oliver(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
This study explores a transformative method to revise an academic literacy study guide in a
Humanities faculty in South Africa. The methodology includes a critical literature review,
positioning the study within the ...
This article focuses on Imraan Coovadia’s High Low In-between and investigates how the novel’s join protagonists, Nafisa and Shakeer, navigate their contemporary Durban. The mother and son, I point out, present two disparate ...
Post-apartheid South Africa is characterized by growing
feelings of pain, anger and frustration amongst black
communities triggered by pervasive social inequalities. This
has given birth to a new form of political and ...
The study is an analysis of the reaction of students in a faculty of natural and agricultural
sciences (NAS) to subtitles and also includes an investigation of their responses thereto.
Reception of and responses to ...
The purpose of this investigation is to frame Global North colonialism in southern and eastern Africa as ontological appropriation. In the article’s conceptual framework, ontological appropriation is colonial claims to ...
Eybers, Oscar Oliver(Common Ground Research Networks, 2022-11)
Coercive Management Behavior (CMB) exists in universities as it does in cooperate entities. Consequently, CMB constrains research productivity and pedagogic commitments and can induce epistemicide. In response to CMB, this ...
Eybers, Oscar Oliver; Paulet, Emma; Van der Schyff, Natasha(Hindawi, 2023-05)
This article analyzes first-year natural science students’ experiences of discourse and devaluation as new members of the Natural and Agricultural Sciences Faculty at the University of Pretoria (UP). This study aims to ...
Angu, Pineteh(Society for Research and Knowledge Management, 2022-08)
The aim of article is to analyse the remote teaching and learning
experiences of students, as expressed in online discussions among firstyear students at a South African university, to enhance understanding of
how learning ...
The reading crisis in South Africa is well-documented by now, and the implications of poor reading proficiencies can be observed in the limited outcomes and high attrition rates at primary, secondary and tertiary educational ...
Adjei-Mensah, Susana(University of Pretoria, 2022)
Mature students’ admission into universities in Ghana is increasing rapidly. Both private and public universities admit students who are 25 years and above through the mature entrance admission process. The language ...
Eybers, Oscar Oliver; Paulet, Emma(Higher Education South Africa, 2022-05-23)
Researchers in the field of academic literacy, specifically those focused on the first-year level in universities, are often required to articulate the theoretical framework that informs their critical orientation. In this ...
Carstens, Adelia; Rambiritch, Avasha(University of the Free State, 2021-09)
The reigning orthodoxy in writing centres has been to avoid
directive approaches and embrace non-directive approaches
to tutoring. Although since the late 1990s various writing centre
scholars have debunked this myth, ...
Carstens, Adelia(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap and Kuns, 2021-12)
Communication in the 21st century has become multimodal. A variety of primary modes,
including text, narration, movement, colour and sound are also “translated” and delivered
in secondary modes through electronic devices. ...
Olifant, Tilla; Cekiso, Madoda; Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah; Madikiza, Nophawu(South African Association for Language Teaching, 2020)
Since the purpose of reading is comprehension, the major goal of reading comprehension instruction is to help learners develop knowledge, skills, and strategies so that they become strategic readers who read for comprehension. ...
Eybers, Oscar Oliver; Kruger-Roux, Helena(Common Ground Research Networks, 2021-09)
This study aims to identify the efficacy of social factors in the ways that first-year science students attempt to argue.
Argumentation is an essential tool used to produce scientific knowledge. As a linguistic phenomenon, ...
In developing countries, digital media have created uneven nexuses of literacy, power and
societal adjustment. Whilst literacy and power have been the subject of much research in
South Africa, often supporting a conception ...
This study advocates a social realist ontological framework as an effective, analytical blueprint for identifying problems and solutions in BRICS, educational governance systems; specifically as related to the higher ...
Kruger-Roux, Helena; Angu, Pineteh(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-10)
Over the past thirty years, the educational applications of subtitling, such as incidental language learning, improved literacy, and comprehension and retention of visual content, have been well documented. Seminal studies ...
Von Fintel, Celeste; Eybers, Oscar Oliver(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-07)
This study critically reflects on the effectiveness of a new hybrid curriculum implemented in a heavily populated academic literacy module aimed at first-year students from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences ...
Eybers, Oscar Oliver; Eybers, Oscar Oliver(Philosophy Department, University of Pretoria, 2019-07-01)
This paper applies a social realist ontology in conceptualising Afrocentric curricula in South African universities. The analysis considers South African media reports related to students' demands for decolonised curricula. ...