• Womanisme dans Crepuscule du tourment : melancolie de Leonora Miano 

  Tonleu, Madeleine; De Beer, Anna-Marie; Snyman, Elisabeth (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2022-10-26)

  In this article we examine the notion of womanism as portrayed in the 2016 novel Crépuscule du tourment: Mélancolie (Twilight of Torment: Melancholy) by the Franco-Cameroonian author Léonora Miano. We explore how four ...
• Folie et identite feminine postcoloniale dans La folie et la mort de Ken Bugul 

  Tonleu, Madeleine (Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2022-12)

  In this article, I explore the question of madness and feminism as presented by Ken Bugul in La folie et la mort (2000). Madness in this novel is firstly analysed as a socio-political crisis caused by, among other things, ...
• La traduction dans l'enseignement/apprentissage du français langue étrangère en Afrique du Sud 

  Loh Yai, Jean Claude (University of Pretoria, 2023-01-31)

  This PhD thesis titled La Traduction dans l’enseignement/apprentissage du Français Langue Étrangère en Afrique du Sud (Translation in the Teaching/Learning of French as a Foreign Language in South Africa) examines the role ...
• Schreiben als Fremde(r) : eine vergleichende Studie zur Fremdheit in ausgewählten Gedichten von Charles Bukowski und Nelly Sachs 

  Treurnicht, Coenet (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  The radicality of the “Fremderfahrung” can be described as an existential process of having to relearn the way in which one thinks, speaks, and writes. The poems of Charles Bukowski and Nelly Sachs showcase how their ...
• L’expansion de l’anglais : une menace pour la francophonie universitaire? 

  Tirvassen, Rada (Association for French Studies in Southern Africa (AFSSA), 2020-10)

  There is a belief that Francophone institutions and organisations are powerless to counter the attraction of academics towards the English language. According to many Francophone decisionmakers, the expansion of the ...
• "Die Funktion Der Polaritätsfiguren In Demian, Der Steppenwolf Und Narziss Und Goldmund Von Hermann Hesse" 

  Crafford, Helen Christine (University of Pretoria, 2013)

  No abstract
• Grenzorte und Grenzdialektik in Lutz Seilers Kruso 

  Muhr, Stephan (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2019)

  Please read abstract in article.
• Analyse de la condition féminine dans l’enfant de sable et la nuit sacrée de Tahar ben Jelloun 

  Mbooh, Jeanne Odette (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  This research deals with the condition of Moroccan women as represented in The Sand Child (1985) and The Sacred Night (1987). In The Sand Child, the storyteller narrates the life of a girl named Ahmed, whose father, ...
• Impacto de los videos subtitulados en la comprensión auditiva del español como lengua extranjera : análisis crítico de algunos estudios existentes 

  Van Dyk, Monica Christine (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  No abstract
• Teaching grammar through literature in foreign language learning with German as an example 

  Weber, Angelika (University of Stellenbosch, Education Faculty, Department of Curriculum Studies, 2018)

  Learning a language’s grammar is frequently experienced as a complicated, abstract and often boring process. To alleviate this situation, scholars like Harald Weinrich advocate the use of literature in grammar teaching and ...
• How Spanish is learnt matters : university students’ use of language learning strategies 

  Lancho Perea, Luis Andrés (Routledge, 2019)

  The study explored how Spanish is learnt at a South African university by analysing students’ self-reports on the use of language learning strategies. A mixed methods design was used. Considering that learning a foreign ...
• Interkulturelles Lernen im südafrikanischen DaF-Unterricht : Eine Studie 

  Weber, Angelika (Southern African Association of German Studies, 2018)

  The call to transform South African university curricula necessitates revisiting possibilities and perspectives, also in teaching German as a foreign language. This article demonstrates how intercultural learning can ...
• Wissenschaftliches Gedächtnis als Erinnerungskultur : Zwei Fallstudien zum Kolonialkrieg in Namibia 

  Muhr, Stephan (Southern African Association of German Studies, 2018)

  This contribution is based on the premise that remembering as representation of the past is always also the (re-)construction of reality and that the same applies to scientific memory. The generation of historical and ...
• The role of imagination in Assia Djebar's L'Amour la fantasia and Andrè Brink's Philida 

  Steenekamp, Carina (University of Pretoria, 2017)

  No abstract
• Le rôle de la femme disparue dans deux oeuvres de Patrick Modiano : Voyage de noces et Dora Bruder 

  Lombard, Christo (University of Pretoria, 2017)

  The aim of this project is to investigate the importance accorded to the personage of the missing woman in two texts by Patrick Modiano: Voyage de noces (1990) and Dora Bruder (1997). Where necessary, allusions to other ...
• Deconstructing and reinventing the concept of multilingualism : a case study of the Mauritian sociolinguistic landscape 

  Tirvassen, Rada; Ramasawmy, Shalini Jagambal (University of Stellenbosch. Department of General Linguistics, 2017)

  This article aims at deconstructing the conception of multilingualism developed in mainstream sociolinguistics by critically examining the assumptions underlying this trend of research, which is grounded in the scholarship ...
• World Englishes et français régionaux : so different ou les limites de la théorisation en sciences du langage? 

  Tirvassen, Rada (Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2017)

  The starting point of this article is that sociolinguistics and in fact any social science should acknowledge that there are different ways of constructing knowledge regarding human behaviour in society and that each of ...
• Radicalisation of European Citizens and ISIS Terrorism 

  Ajisafe, Dickson O.A. (University of Pretoria, 2017)

  The growing numbers of terror attacks in Europe in recent times has made the concept of radicalization a sensitive phenomenon, most especially, Islamic radicalization. The activities of Islamic extremists and terrorists ...
• Spanish as a foreign language at university level : the role and use of language learning strategies by absolute beginners 

  Lancho Perea, Luis Andres (University of Pretoria, 2017)

  This research is logged in the field of language acquisition, focusing on Spanish as a foreign language learnt at university level. It investigates how learning strategies are used by students to develop proficiency in ...
• The hegemony of English in Primary school education : South Africa's language identity struggle 

  Coffi, Lilly Romance Laure (University of Pretoria, 2017)

  Contemporary society has seen the English language rise to great heights. It has become the most important language in trade, industry and education. In South Africa, speakers of Indigenous African Languages (IALs) consider ...

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