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Journal articles on the topic "African Academy of Languages":

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Wildsmith, Rosemary. "The African languages in South African education 2009–2011." Language Teaching 46, no. 1 (November 28, 2012): 120–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444812000420.

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South African National Language Education policy (South Africa, DoE 2002) enshrines multilingualism (ML) as one of its major goals. The implementation of such a policy is a slow process, however, particularly in the educational domain, where parents, teachers and students favour the dominant, ex-colonial language (English) for both historic and instrumental reasons (Dalvit & de Klerk 2005). However, results of the National Benchmarking Test (NBMT Report 2009) conducted at selected South African universities show that most non-English speaking students in higher education have underdeveloped language and numeracy skills for study at this level, one of the main barriers to access being that of language (Council on Higher Education 2007: 2). Efforts have thus intensified in South African institutions to introduce the home languages of learners into the educational domain, either as learning support alongside the main medium of instruction or as alternative languages of instruction, working towards the development of a bilingual education model. This report documents developments in research in the promotion and use of the African languages in education in South Africa in recent years, particularly since the publication of the previous report (Wildsmith-Cromarty 2009), which discussed various initiatives in the teaching, development and use of the African languages in South African education during the period 2005–2008. This report considers further developments in the use of the African languages for academic purposes in the following areas: the learning and teaching of these languages as additional languages and for professional purposes in selected disciplines for specialist programmes, and their intellectualization, which includes their use as languages of instruction, in the translation of materials and other learning resources, and development of terminology.
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Wildsmith-Cromarty, Rosemary. "AILA Africa Research Network Launch 2007: Research into the use of the African languages for academic purposes." Language Teaching 42, no. 1 (January 2009): 131–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444808005454.

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The aim of the one-day symposium was to bring together scholars in applied linguistics with an interest in the African languages for the launch of the new AILA Africa regional network. Contributions were in the form of invited research papers from several African countries. This report focuses on the South African contribution, which highlighted current research into the use and development of the African languages for academic purposes in response to the South African National Language Education Policy (South Africa, DoE 2002) with its focus on the development of multilingualism in the country.
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Elders, Stefan. "Angela Bartens. Ideophones and sound symbolism in Atlantic creoles. (Suomalaisen Tiedekatemian Toimituksia/Annales Academiae Scientiarium Fennicae. Sarja-series Humaniora, 40.) Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and Finnish Society of Science and Letters, 2000. Pp. 198." Language in Society 31, no. 1 (January 2002): 134–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404502261059.

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The central claim of Ideophones and sound symbolism in Atlantic creoles is that ideophones constitute a relevant category in Atlantic creoles, and that they show both functional and substantial correspondences with ideophones in African languages. The book consists of two main parts: a critical review of the literature on ideophones (Introduction; Chap. 1, “Previous treatment of ideophones and sound symbolism in the literature”; Chap. 2, “Characterization of ideophones: towards a cross-linguistic prototype”), and an etymological database of ideophones in the Atlantic creoles (Chap. 3, “The use of ideophone in the Atlantic creoles and their tentative etymologies”). Two appendices present data sources and the approximate number of ideophones in some languages. The study is based on the available literature, supplemented by data on Atlantic creoles, African languages, European languages, and two Asian languages that was obtained either from specialists on certain languages or from first-language speakers.
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Moodley, Maglin, and Reuben Dlamini. "Experiences and attitudes of Setswana speaking teachers in using an indigenous African language on an online assessment platform." South African Journal of Education 41, Supplement 1 (October 31, 2021): S1—S11. http://dx.doi.org/10.15700/saje.v41ns1a2149.

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Education in the 21st century must have a vision that will support and empower teachers to face the demands of the digital age. The use of information communication technology (ICT) in education can serve this end but ensuring access to digital resources will not address the digital disparity. Culture and language play an equally important role in exacerbating and maintaining the digital disparity as the traditional factor of access. In the study reported on here we investigated the experiences and attitudes of Setswana-speaking teachers in 3 primary schools in the North West province, South Africa, as they were exposed to online software in Setswana, an indigenous African language. Purposive sampling was used to select 7 teachers for the study. Two research questions were answered using systematic self-observation (SSO) instruments, the participant observation (PO) instrument and the in-depth interview (IDI) instrument to determine the experiences and attitudes of the teachers. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the interview data. It was found that accuracy of translation was key for adopting and using software in an African language. The teachers felt that English was the language of ICT and that African languages were not intellectual languages and did not have the capacity to be used in ICT. It is, therefore, recommended that more must be done to translate software into African languages and an effort must be made to raise the status of African languages in academic and technical fields.
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WASSERMAN, HERMAN. "Between the Local and the Global: South African Languages and the Internet." African and Asian Studies 1, no. 4 (2002): 303–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156921002x00042.

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ABSTRACT This article addresses some of the potential of the Internet in building a new South African nationhood, especially through language. However, before the Internet can really promote multilingualism and multiculturalism in South Africa, the severe inequalities that mark access to the medium need to be overcome, possibly by sharing resources between minority languages, of which Afrikaans is economically in the strongest position. Within the globalised world order, English is at the top of the hierarchy of dominance. It is the most commonly spoken second language and the lingua franca in the international business, media, scientific and academic worlds. While some welcome English as a means of communication with the potential of overcoming the global tower of Babel, others argue that minority languages might become threatened by 'language death'. For instrumental purposes, English has become the lingua franca in South African public life. While this means that the use of Afrikaans has been dramatically scaled down to occupy the position of a minority language, the other nine indigenous languages are at an even bigger disadvantage. Probably the greatest barrier in the way of indigenous languages gaining a presence on the Internet remains the problem that has come to be known as the digital divide. Access to the Internet is still marred by severe inequalities.
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Coetzee, Carli, and Thembinkosi Goniwe. "The languages of the archive: revisiting the debates around African languages in the arts and in the academy." Critical African Studies 5, no. 2 (June 2013): 92–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2013.814473.

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Dwyer, David J. "Issues in African Academic Language Programming in the U.S." Issue: A Journal of Opinion 25, no. 1 (1997): 23–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047160700502479.

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Support for academic African language programs (ALPs) in the US began at the national level with the National Defense Education Act of 1958 (renamed the Higher Education Act of 1965). The goal of this legislation was to establish a world-wide language and area studies knowledge base that could be called upon in the event of conflict, but in addition it has provided generations of students a wealth of knowledge about the less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) and the communities where they are spoken. Although the Africa region’s share of this support has hovered around 12%, its effect has been substantial. For example, based on a world-wide listing of Africanist linguists, approximately half of these specialists live in Africa, with the remainder being equally divided between the countries of Europe and the US, a remarkable fact given that the US has no colonial legacy in Africa. Title VI of this legislation supports a set of National Resource Centers (NRCs) that promote language and area study of a specific region including Africa.
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Filatova, Irina. "Centre for African Studies of the Institute of World History RAS: the Place in African Studies — Soviet, Russian, and Abroad." ISTORIYA 13, no. 3 (113) (2022): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840020256-0.

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The article looks at the most important tendencies and trends in foreign (mostly English language), Soviet and Russian African Studies, from the 1960s (and even earlier, as far as Soviet African studies are concerned) util today. It offers a comparative analysis of their trajectories and assesses them from the point of view of their contribution to our understanding of Africa and to African studies. Against this backdrop the author assesses the work of the Centre for African Studies of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, its achievements, and its contribution to the historiography of African history.
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Hsiung, Hansun. "Knowledge Made Cheap: Global Learners and the Logistics of Reading." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 134, no. 1 (January 2019): 137–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2019.134.1.137.

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“You only have to know one thing: You can learn anything. For free. For everyone. Forever” (Khan Academy). Utopias of learning abound in our contemporary media landscape. Take, for instance, the above motto of Khan Academy (#YouCanLearnAnything), one of the earliest providers of open online education. With lessons in over twenty-four languages on topics from algebra to art history, Khan Academy aspires to reach an unprecedented global audience—not only children from the United States who are stuck in “a corrupt or broken [school] system” but also the “young girl in an African village” and the “fisherman's son in New Guinea” (Khan 4). In this sense, Khan Academy enjoys a paradoxical kinship to the diverse geographies studied in this cluster of essays. By promising the global provision of education, it seeks to conquer geography itself.
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DIAGNE, Mbacké. "The FCFA Currency: An Eminently Linguistic Issue." Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Studies 4, no. 1 (January 13, 2022): 01–08. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/jhsss.2022.4.1.1.

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In a situation of illiteracy at a rate of 54%, with over 80% of the population not speaking French (ANSD, 2013), it is very difficult to carry out effective development policies in Senegal without taking into account the language issue. From this point of view, the FCFA currency, which is expressed in French, poses a lot of problems for the African populations of the franc zone. The debate around this currency has so far been more focused on financial or fiduciary aspects than on the fundamental mechanisms that help to better understand the environment in which economic agents operate. Beyond its linguistic symbolism steeped in history, the FCFA creates cognitive problems that make it difficult for African populations to use it. We will try in this article to show, by an analytical approach, that the denomination of a currency involves the interaction of several fields of investigation. These are economic, historical, sociological, political, and above all, linguistic. From this angle, there is reason to be interested in the Academy of African Languages (ACALAN) in the resolution of this unit of measurement.
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Gee, Trisha J. "An analysis of elementary foreign language immersion education and its effect on African American student basic reading skills and attitudes of Milwaukee Spanish Immersion School 4th graders toward academic and recreation reading." Online version, 2009. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2009/2009geet.pdf.

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Sithole, Kateko Lucy. "The use of african language as media of teaching and learning in public schools in Mopani district (Limpopo Province):A critical analysis." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/3160.

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Thesis (Ph.D.(African languages)) --University of Limpopo, 2019
This thesis investigated the use of African languages as media of teaching and learning in public schools in Mopani District of Limpopo Province. The study was guided by a qualitative approach. A total of 30 educators from five primary schools participated in the study. Purposive sampling was used to select the participants. Interviews were used as a tool for data collection. Data from the interviews was analysed by means of thematic method of data analysis, and was presented in the form of themes. The results revealed that African languages are admired by most educators. The findings of this study revealed that it is possible to introduce African languages as media of teaching and learning in South Africa, but it will require an extensive preparation, which involves effective training of teachers and the acquisition of teaching and learning materials in African languages. The study also revealed that the current use of English and Afrikaans as media of teaching and learning contributes to poor academic performance of learners. The findings of the study have important implications for both learners and educators. The study will provide the National Department of Education with information it might need to review its language policy with regard to instructional languages. The study will also contribute towards knowledge of African languages as media of instruction, and will help school administrators and policy makers to understand challenges associated with the current medium of instruction and learner performance in schools in South Africa. All education stakeholders might be able to identify the causal factors of language failure rate in grade 12
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Makhatini, Freedom Nkanyiso. "The development of isiZulu as an academic language for the teaching of fundamental concepts in economics." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002164.

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This thesis looks at language as the medium of all our ideas and sentiments. The thesis represents a position statement regarding the development of isiZulu as an academic language. The field of Economics is used to merely illustrate and support the points that are being made in this work. It is argued that each language is viewed as the means of expression of the cultural heritage of its people, and it remains a reflection of cultural groups who speak that particular language. It is a fact that indigenous African Languages have been, for obvious reasons, blatantly understudied during the apartheid years in South Africa (Rudwick 2004). Languages have market value and the desirability of English as the most important global language today has an effect in most Black learners in South Africa. The study examined the development of indigenous African languages, isiZulu in particular, in Zululand University where ninety percent of students and lecturers are isiZulu first language speakers, and came to a conclusion that there is an urgent need for Black South African students to learn academic subjects through their mother tongues. This would help them in thorough understanding and interpretation of analytic text presented in a foreign language such as English. The study advocates that isiZulu, which is the mother-tongue of many students at the University of Zululand, should be a language for upward mobility to these students, but as the situation stands, isiZulu becomes a neglected or marginalised language since it is not the normal medium of instruction and it is not used for effective communication in their education system.
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Martín-Chazeaud, Alexandre. "Succes or failure? The effect of the language of test on students’ academic achievement in rural Senegal." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/458236.

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In most Sub-Saharan countries, children grow up in a local environment attached to a culture and an identity which are embraced by a local language. However, when they start compulsory school at the age of six, they have to face a curriculum which is taught and assessed from the first year in a European language foreign to them and, in most cases, culturally far from their own reality. According to Heugh (2006; 2011b), these children must face a language barrier in monolingual educational systems in which a second language (L2) is the unique medium of instruction and where their mother tongue (L1) has no place. In such circumstances, learners are deprived from access to an education of quality and, consequently, obtain low results in tests, a fact depicted by Skutnabb-Kangas (2009: 1) as a “genocide and a crime against humanity”. As a result of school failure and grade repetition, young students feel demotivated and families encourage their children to drop out formal education in order to participate in the economy of the family or in the household at very young ages (Magga, Nicolaisen, Task, Skutnabb-Kangas and Dunbar, 2005; Brock-Utne, 2014). In other words, those educational systems which do not consider the learners’ L1 as a medium of instruction do not represent any longer the means by which knowledge and language are taught for future and personal growth, but instead, the means which generates a vicious circle of failure and socio- linguistic indifference, including poverty and social exclusion (Mohanty, 2009). This fact is of special interest to the female population living in rural areas of Sub-Saharan countries. Benson (2001a; 2001b) argues that females are considered academically incompetent as compared to males because they obtain low scores in tests and show an inactive presence during lectures, not only due to the fact that they scarcely understand lessons, but also to their hard responsibilities within the household. Benson (2005a) proposes that instruction through the mother tongue can have positive effects on females’ scores at school, a fact which leads to motivation and active participation in the learning process. Therefore, in such contexts, tests are designed in a European language when only 5% to 10% of the population, generally the high socio-economic class, is proficient in it (Brock-Utne and Alidou, 2006). According to Shohamy (2006) this circumstance creates an unfair situation known by the researcher as the power of tests in which only those students who master the official language can succeed at school. With the purpose of analysing students’ academic achievement depending on the language in which they take tests, the present study was carried out in rural Senegal. It gathered data from 149 participants (66 males and 83 females) who attended grade 3 or grade 6. They were given two types of tests: Six multiple-choice questions of social and natural sciences and three mathematical problem-solving tasks, with a different degree of language complexity and context familiarity. Participants were divided into an experimental group if they were given the tests in their mother tongue (L1 Sérère) and a control group, if they received the tests in the official language of formal education (L2 French). As revealed by the results obtained, L1 Sérère as language of tests benefitted students at both the quantity and the quality of their outcomes, and this was specially true for females. Moreover, the present study gave further evidence to Cummins’ theories Interdependence and Threshold Hypotheses and supported Heugh (2011b), Benson (2013) and Brock-Utne’s (2016) idea that school curricula in developing countries should consider the students’ L1 as medium of instruction and language of tests at school, at least during six years, with the purpose of developing linguistic and academic skills in the L1 for later transferring them to the European language as L2.
En la majoria de països de l’Àfrica Subsahariana, els infants creixen en un entorn lligat a una identitat i una cultura unides per una llengua. No obstant, quan comencen l’educació obligatòria a l’edat de sis anys, han de fer front a un currículum acadèmic impartit i avaluat en una llengua europea estrangera i, en molts casos, culturalment distant de la seva realitat. Segons Heugh (2006; 2011b), aquests infants han d’enfrontar-se a una barrera lingüística en un sistema educatiu monolingüe on una segona llengua (L2) es l’únic mitjà d’instrucció i on la seva llengua materna (L1) no hi té lloc. En aquestes circumstàncies, als aprenents se’ls priva d’accés a una educació de qualitat i, consegüentment, obtenen notes baixes en els tests, un fet descrit per en Skutnabb- Kangas (2009a: 1) com un “genocidi i crim contra la humanitat”. Com a resultat del fracàs escolar i la repetició, els joves alumnes se senten desmotivats i les famílies els animen a abandonar l’educació formal per participar en l’economia familiar i en les obligacions de la llar a partir d’edats molt joves (Magga, Nicolaisen, Task, Skutnabb- Kangas i Dunbar, 2005; Brock-Utne, 2014). Dit d’una altra manera, aquells sistemes educatius que no consideren la L1 dels alumnes com a mitjà d’instrucció ja no representen els mitjans a través dels quals els coneixements i les llengües s’ensenyen per un futur creixement personal, però en el seu lloc, són els mitjans que generen un cercle viciós de fracàs escolar i indiferència sociolingüística, incloent-hi pobresa i exclusió social (Mohanty, 2009). Aquest fet és d’especial interès en el cas de la població femenina que viu en zones rurals de l’Àfrica subsahariana. Benson (2001a; 2001b) argumenta que a les noies se les considera acadèmicament incompetents perquè obtenen notes baixes als tests i mostren una presència inactiva durant les classes, no només pel fet què amb prou feines entenen la lliçó, sinó també degut a les seves responsabilitats a la llar. Benson (2005a) proposa que un ensenyament en llengua materna pot tenir efectes positius en el rendiment escolar de les noies, fet que comportaria motivar-les i fer- les participar activament en el procés d’aprenentatge. Per tant, en aquest tipus de context, els tests són dissenyats en una llengua europea quan només entre el 5% i el 10% de la població, generalment de la classe social benestant, n’és competent (Brock-Utne i Alidou, 2006). Segons Shohamy (2006) aquesta circumstància crea una situació injusta, coneguda per la investigadora com a poder dels tests, pel la qual només els estudiants que dominen la llengua oficial poden atènyer l’èxit acadèmic. Amb el propòsit d’analitzar l’assoliment acadèmic dels estudiants depenent de la llengua en què reben els tests, aquest estudi va ser dut a terme en el Senegal rural. Es va recollir informació de 149 participants (66 homes i 83 dones) que cursaven grau 3 o grau 6. Se’ls varen donar dos tipus de tests: sis preguntes de resposta múltiple de ciències socials i naturals i tres problemes de matemàtiques, amb diferent nivell de complexitat lingüística i acadèmica i de proximitat del context social. Els participants van ser dividits en un grup experimental si se’ls varen donar els tests en llengua materna (L1 Serer) i en un grup de control si van rebre els tests en la llengua oficial de l’educació formal (L2 Francès). Tal i com van demostrar els resultats obtinguts, la L1 Serer com a llengua dels tests beneficia els alumnes tant en la quantitat com en la qualitat dels seus assoliments, i aquest fet és especialment rellevant en la població femenina. A més, aquest estudi és una prova de les teories de la Interdependència i del Llindar suggerides per Cummins, i dona suport a la idea de Heugh (2011b), Benson (2013) i Brock-Utne’s (2016) per la qual els currículums educatius en els països en desenvolupament haurien de considerar la L1 dels estudiants com a mitjà d’ensenyament i com a llengua dels tests a les escoles, almenys durant sis anys, amb l’objectiu de millorar les habilitats lingüístiques i acadèmiques en la seva L1 per després transferir-les a la llengua europea com a L2.
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Owens, Jossie Etta. "Parkside Christian Academy: a different choice." Thesis, Boston University, 2003. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/33532.

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PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
The purpose of this study was to discover why African-American parents, traditionally supportive of public school education, are seeking private schooling for their children in growing numbers. In particular, this study addressed the question of "What are the factors, variables, or conditions that contribute to African-American parents selecting Parkside Christian Academy as their school of choice?" Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used to find out how and why African-American parents select schools for their children. The findings of this study suggest that parents make choices regarding their children's early elementary school years many times based on the parents' own personal school experiences. As a result ofthe interviews and the survey, a new model called the Parent Concern Model was created. This model has ten dimensions that correspond to factors that might influence the way parents select schools for their children. The ten dimensions that emerged from the twenty qualitative interviews shape and affect the way African-American parents think and select schools. The ten dimensions, identified as the Parent Concern Model were financial concerns, performance concerns, equity concerns, self-esteem concerns, transportation concerns, safety concerns, displacement concerns, teacher concerns, parental involvement concerns, and emotional distress concerns.
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McDuffie, Kay Frances Ward Crumpler Thomas P. "Private schooling research examination of a christian academy /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1390285861&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1203093443&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2007.
Title from title page screen, viewed on February 15, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Thomas P. Crumpler (chair), Adel T. Al-Bataineh, Carol Camp Yeakey, Mary Murray Autry. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-176) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Weinraub, Clarece D. C. "Influences of African American English that contribute to the exclusion of African American students from academic discourse." Thesis, University of Southern California, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10124477.

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This qualitative study explored how the teacher’s knowledge of African American English (AAE) influenced the interactions and perceptions teachers had about AAE speaking students. African American English is a rule based language system spoken by over 80 percent of African Americans (Charity Hudley & Mallison, 2011; Smitherman, 1977). Despite this statistic AAE is not classified as a second language and is generally not recognized in most U.S. Schools. Programs such as the Academic English Mastery Program (AEMP) classify those speakers of AAE and other languages that are generally referred to as English Only (EO) as Standard English Learner (SEL). This study looked at knowledge of AAE, perceptions demonstrated through interactions with students and strategies teachers used while working with primarily African American middle school students. The researcher observed classrooms, attempted to analyze lesson plans, and conducted teacher interviews. Findings showed that teachers may have known about AAE but most did not explore learning about the language or strategies to work with AAE speaking students despite having classes that were attended by mostly AAE- speaking students. This research also showed that even when teachers felt competent in using AEMP strategies lack of respect for students and understanding of African American culture stifled the teacher’s effectiveness.

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Fokkens, Andries Marius. "Idealised redesign : the South African Military Academy by the year 2030." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85386.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2011.
The changing external environment of the security sector and higher education influences the South African Military Academy (SAMA) as an institution within the broader Department of Defence, which is also associated with Stellenbosch University (SU) through the SAMA’s Faculty of Military Science (FMS). Graduates of the SAMA operate mostly within this changing security environment where their abilities and competencies are required. The research problem investigates the triggers that will initiate change and the drivers that will bring about paradigm shifts on the SAMA as an institution that delivers graduates for a changing security environment. The research question is to forecast an ideal SAMA in the year 2030. This ideal comes forth from critical analyses of current literature and qualitative data collected from experts through the Delphi technique. Sub-questions of the research question includes the programme content of the academic and military training programmes, the profile of the academic and administrative personnel, the student profile upon entering and exiting the SAMA, the organisational structure required, the infrastructure and finally the financial model. Furthermore, triggers and drivers identify actions to bring about change and critical success factors determine the requirements to achieve an ideal SAMA in 2030. The SAMA is a unique military unit that houses the only Faculty of Military Science in Southern Africa. The research report will empower decision-makers in the DOD and SU, including the unit members of the SAMA, to identify the triggers that will precipitate a coming change and properly manage the drivers pressuring change from the perspective of functionality, politics and society.
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Corneilse, Carol E. "Living feminism in the academy South African women tell their stories /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9203.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.
Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Education Leadership, Higher Education, and International Education. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Pretorius, Marlize, and Marlize Redelinghuys. "Validation of a selection battery used by the South African Military Academy." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5274.

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Thesis (MComm (Industrial Psychology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The objective of this study is to determine whether the psychometric evaluation procedure, used by the South African Military Academy to make selection decisions, can validly predict academic performance of first year learners, whether this procedure is fair and whether the procedure is efficient. The sample used for this study consisted of three year groups (First Year Students of 2001, 2002 and 2003) enrolled at the Military Academy. In theory specific learning behaviours (learning competencies) are instrumental in attaining academic performance. These learning behaviours, in turn, depend on and are expressions of a complex nomological network of person-centered characteristics (learning competency potential). Differences in learning performance can be explained in terms of learning behaviours. Learning competencies are instrumental in achieving the learning outcomes for which the academic programme exists. Learning competencies, in turn, can be explained in terms of learner characteristics. In order to differentiate between candidates who have better or poorer training prospects in terms of a construct orientated approach to selection, a performance hypothesis on the person-centered drivers of the learning competencies is used. It is argued that the degree of competence in: (1) the core cognitive processes/competencies that constitute learning (transfer and automatization) and are necessary to create meaningful structure in novel learning material, (2) the intellectual drivers of these learning competencies (fluid intelligence and information processing capacity), (3) proficiency in English and (4) past academic performance, should discriminate between better or poorer academic performance of learners attending the academic programmes at the SA Military Academy. The grade point average of the first year first semester academic results is used as a measure of the criterion construct. Almost all of the results obtained in this study support the theory and propositions made by the performance hypothesis. Only one variable, accuracy of information processing, did not perform as predicted by the performance hypothesis. Prior learning explained the most variance in the criterion (r=0,4312). The inter-correlation amongst the predictors is used to infer the proportion of unique variance each predictor accounts for in the composite criterion. A regression of the composite criterion on the array of predictors (X2 – X12) revealed that only memory and understanding (X9) and prior learning (X12) uncovered relevant and unique information about determinants of performance on the criterion not conveyed by the remaining predictors in the model. The remaining predictors in the selection battery can consequently be considered redundant since they provide no new information not already conveyed by X9 and X12. When YGPA is regressed on the weighted combination of X9 and X12, only X12 significantly explains unique variance in YGPA when included in a regression model already containing X9. In the light of the reported findings there is no need to create a combined weighted linear predictor composite (Xcomp) which would form the basis of the actuarial mechanical decision rule that would guide selection decisions. Prior learning proved to be the only predictor that warrants inclusion in the actuarial mechanical prediction rule that will form the basis of selection decisions. In terms of the derived actuarial prediction rule the expected criterion performance of all applicants (E[Y|X12]) could consequently be estimated by inserting the measures obtained during selection of prior learning into the derived regression equation. The use of this equation could be regarded as permissible to the extent to which E[Y|X12] correlates significantly with YGPA. Since E[Y|X12] correlates 0,431 and statistically significantly (p<0,05) with YGPA, the predictions derived from this equation are valid. The findings of this research suggest that black and white students were sampled from the same population and therefore the use of the single, undifferentiated prediction rule would lead to fair selection decisions. To answer the question whether the selection procedure under investigation is adding any value to the organization, utility analysis is done based on the Taylor-Russell utility model as well as the Naylor-Shine interpretation of selection utility. A criterion-referenced norm table that expresses the risk of failure conditional on expected academic performance is derived from the use of only X12. Recommendations for further research are put forward.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie studie is om te bepaal of die psigometriese evaluasie-prosedure wat deur die Suid Afrikaanse Militêre Akademie gebruik word vir keuringsbesluite, akademiese prestasie van eerstejaar leerders geldig voorspel, en of hierdie prosedure regverdig en effektief is. Die steekproef vir hierdie studie bestaan uit drie jaargroepe (eerstejaar studente van 2001, 2002 en 2003) wat ingeskryf was by die Militêre Akademie. Teoreties is daar spesifieke leergedrag (leerbevoegdhede) wat instrumenteel is in die bereiking van akademiese prestasie. Hierdie leergedrag hang af van en is weer „n uitdrukking van „n komplekse nomologiese netwerk van persoongesentreerde eienskappe (leerbevoegdheidspotensiaal). Verskille in leerprestasie kan verklaar word in terme van leergedrag. Leerbevoegdhede is instrumenteel in die bereiking van die leeruikomste waarvoor die akademiese program bestaan. Leerbevoegdhede, op sy beurt, kan weer verklaar word in terme van leerdereienskappe. Ten einde „n onderskeid te kan tref tussen kandidate met beter of slegter opleidingsvooruitsigte, in terme van „n konstrukgeorienteerde benadering tot keuring, word „n prestasiehipotese gebruik wat gebaseer is op die persoongesentreerde drywers van die leerbevoegdhede. Dit word aangevoer dat die graad van bevoegdheid in: (1) die kern kognitiewe prosesse/bevoegdhede waaruit leer bestaan (oordrag en outomatisasie) en wat nodig is om sinvolle struktuur in nuwe leermateriaal te skep, (2) die intellektuele drywers van hierdie leerbevoegdhede (vloeibare intelligensie en informasieverwerkingskapasiteit), (3) bevoegdheid in Engels, en (4) vorige akademiese prestasie sal onderskei tussen beter of slegter akademiese prestasie van leerders wat akademiese programme by die SA Militêre Akademie bywoon. Die gemiddelde van eerstejaar eerste semester akademiese uitslae is gebruik as meting van die kriteriumkonstruk. Byna al die resultate wat in hierdie studie verkry is ondersteun die teorie en proposisies soos aangevoer deur die prestasiehipotese. Slegs een veranderlike, akkuraatheid van informasie-prosessering, het nie gereageer soos voorspel deur die prestasiehipotese nie. Vorige leer het die meeste variansie in die kriterium verklaar (r=0,4312). Die inter-korrelasie tussen die voorspellers is gebruik om die proporsie unieke variansie wat elke voorspeller in die saamgestelde kriterium verklaar te skat. „n Regressie van die saamgestelde kriterium op die reeks voorspellers (X2 – X12) toon aan dat slegs geheue en begip (X9) sowel as vorige leer (X12) relevante en unieke informasie in verband met die determinante van prestasie in die kriterium weergee wat nie reeds weergegee word deur die oorblywende voorspellers in die model nie. Die oorblywende voorspellers in die keuringsbattery kan gevolglik as oorbodig beskou word aangesien hulle geen nuwe informasie verskaf wat nie reeds deur X9 en X12 oorgedra word nie. Wanneer YGPA geregresseer word op die geweegde kombinasie van X9 en X12, verklaar slegs X12 unieke variasie in YGPA wanneer dit ingesluit word in „n regressiemodel wat alreeds X9 bevat. In die lig van die gerapporteerde bevindinge is dit onnodig om ‟n gekombineerde geweegde liniêre voorspellerkombinasie (Xcomp) te skep om as basis van „n aktuariële meganiese besluitnemingsreël te dien aan hand waarvan keuringsbesluite geneem sal word. Vorige leer blyk die enigste voorspeller te wees wat insluiting regverdig in die aktuariële meganiese besluitnemingsreël wat die basis van keuringsbesluite sal vorm. In terme van die afgeleide aktuariële besluitnemingsreël sal die verwagte kriteriumprestasie van alle toekomstige aansoekers (E[Y│X12]) geskat word deur die meting van vorige leer verkry tydens keuring in die afgeleide regressievergelyking in te stel. Die gebruik van hierdie vergelyking kan as toelaatbaar beskou word in die mate waartoe E[Y│X12] betekenisvol met YGPA korreleer. Aangesien E[Y│X12] statisties betekenisvol 0,431 (p<0,05) met YGPA korreleer, kan die voorspellings afgelei vanuit hierdie vergelyking as geldig beskou word. Die bevindinge van hierdie navorsing dui daarop dat swart en wit studente van hierdie steekproef uit dieselfde populasie geneem is en daarom sal die gebruik van „n enkele, ongedifferensieerde voorspellingsreël lei tot regverdige keuringsbesluite. Om „n antwoord te verkry op die vraag of hierdie keuringsprosedure enige waarde tot die organisasie toevoeg is „n nutanaliese gedoen wat gebaseer is op Taylor-Russell se nutmodel so wel as die Naylor-Shine interpretasie van keuringsnut. „n Kriteriumgerigde normtabel, wat die voorwaardelike risiko op mislukking gebaseer op akademiese prestasie uitdruk, is afgelei deur die gebruik van slegs X12. Aanbevelings vir verdere navorsing word voorgestel.
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Books on the topic "African Academy of Languages":

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International Academy of Language Law. International Conference. Language, law, and equality: Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the International Academy of Language Law (IALL) held in South Africa, April 1992. Edited by Prinsloo K. P. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1993.

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Chatry-Komarek, Marie. Langues africaines: Vers une édition scolaire : à propos d'un programme de formation pour auteurs de manuels scolaires. Paris: Éditions L'Harmattan, 1997.

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Chatry-Komarek, Marie. Langues africaines: Vers une édition scolaire : à propos d'un programme de formation pour auteurs des manuels scolaires. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1997.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs, ed. Professor Modern Languages, Naval Academy. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1985.

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Hurst-Harosh, Ellen, and Fridah Kanana Erastus, eds. African Youth Languages. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9.

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Prah, K. K. African languages, African development and African unity. Lagos, Nigeria: Published for Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC) by Concept Publications, 2009.

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Boyce, Davies Carole, Gadsby Meredith, Peterson Charles, and Williams Henrietta, eds. Decolonizing the academy: African diaspora studies. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2003.

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Keller, Edmond J. Globalization, African studies, and the Academy. Talence [France]: Centre d'étude d'Afrique noire, 1998.

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Bromber, Katrin, and Birgit Smieja, eds. Globalisation and African Languages. Berlin, New York: DE GRUYTER MOUTON, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110891614.

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1939-, Heine Bernd, and Nurse Derek, eds. African languages: An introduction. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Hurst-Harosh, Ellen, and Fridah Kanana Erastus. "An Overview of African Youth Language Practices and Their Use in Social Media, Advertising and Creative Arts." In African Youth Languages, 1–12. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9_1.

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Nopece, Unathi. "Linguistic (and Non-linguistic) Influences on Urban Performance Poetry in South African Contemporary Youth Culture." In African Youth Languages, 205–26. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9_10.

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Asiru, Hameed Tunde, and Emily A. Ogutu. "Slang in Yorùbá Home Videos: A Morpho-pragmatic Analysis." In African Youth Languages, 227–47. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9_11.

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Kanana Erastus, Fridah, and Hilda Kebeya. "Functions of Urban and Youth Language in the New Media: The Case of Sheng in Kenya." In African Youth Languages, 15–52. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9_2.

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Boutin, Akissi Béatrice, and Jean-Claude Dodo. "View on the Updating of Nouchi Lexicon and Expressions." In African Youth Languages, 53–73. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9_3.

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Kouassi, Roland Raoul, and Ellen Hurst-Harosh. "Social Media as an Extension of, and Negotiation Space for, a Community of Practice: A Comparison of Nouchi and Tsotsitaal." In African Youth Languages, 75–101. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9_4.

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Ebongue, Augustin Emmanuel. "The Use of Addressing Terms in Social Media: The Case of Cameroonian Youth Practices." In African Youth Languages, 103–22. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9_5.

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Muaka, Leonard. "The Impact of Youth Language on Linguistic Landscapes in Kenya and Tanzania." In African Youth Languages, 123–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9_6.

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Mose, Edinah Gesare, and Orpha Bonareri Ombati. "Creative Use of Urban Youth Language in Advertisements: A Case of Mixing Codes." In African Youth Languages, 147–58. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9_7.

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Isiaka, Adeiza Lasisi. "Plurality, Translingual Splinters and Music-Modality in Nigerian Youth Languages." In African Youth Languages, 161–80. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9_8.

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Conference papers on the topic "African Academy of Languages":

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Pila, Oniccah Koketso, and Lydia Mavuru. "NATURAL SCIENCES TEACHERS’ PERCEIVED COGNITIVE ACADEMIC LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY (CALP) NEEDS." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2022v1end080.

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"Teachers Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) has been found to be important for meaningful teaching and learning of any subject. Over the years research has focused more on English second language learners’ CALP needs and less on the teachers. Because teachers are the cornerstones who drive the process of teaching and learning in the classrooms, their proficiency in the language of teaching and learning are vital. In the South African context, English is regarded as the official language of teaching and learning from grade 4 onwards despite that both teachers and learners come from diverse linguistic backgrounds where English is a second or third language. Underpinned by the socio-cultural theory as the theoretical framework, the paper reports on a study that determined both in-service and pre-service teachers’ perceived CALP needs when teaching Natural Sciences in multicultural township schools. In a qualitative research approach 12 teachers were randomly selected who comprised of six in-service teachers and six final year pre-service teachers enrolled for a Natural Sciences course at a University in South Africa. Each teacher was interviewed once using a semi-structured interview schedule which allowed them to freely express their perceived CALP needs. The data was analysed using a constant comparative method. Findings from the analysis of data showed that teachers experienced many challenges when teaching Natural Sciences using English, a language different from their home languages and those of their learners. They indicated that because science is a unique language on its own they struggle to spell, pronounce, understand and most importantly to explain to the learners using English. The teachers indicated their little to non-exposure to English other than in the classrooms compared to their home languages. Whilst some of the teachers perceived English as an important language due to its universality, they however indicated that code switching to own home language and those of the learners was inevitable when it comes to meaningfully explain some scientific concepts and processes in a way that learners would comprehend. However, others acknowledged the challenges of using code switching in the linguistic diverse classroom environments. Most teachers suggested training workshops intended to develop them with skills to identify appropriate terms and expressions, and explain complex scientific concepts in English. These findings have implications on both pre-service and in-service teacher professional development programmes."
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Chiarcos, Christian, Ines Fiedler, Mira Grubic, Andreas Haida, Katharina Hartmann, Julia Ritz, Anne Schwarz, Amir Zeldes, and Malte Zimmermann. "Information structure in African languages." In the First Workshop. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1564508.1564512.

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Hocking, Justin, and Martin Puttkammer. "Optical character recognition for South African languages." In 2016 PRASA-RobMech International Conference. IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/robomech.2016.7813139.

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Portugal, Cristina. "Design and the Contemporary Languages in Education." In European Academy of Design Conference Proceedings 2015. Sheffield Hallam University, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7190/ead/2015/9.

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Matthee, Michael H., and Stephen P. Levitt. "Domain specific languages contextualized." In the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2072221.2072265.

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Maher, Zachary. "Exploring Academic Spaces for Equitable Practices: Elementary Educator Dispositions Toward African American Language." In 2022 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1894097.

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Grover, Aditi Sharma, Karen Calteaux, Gerhard van Huyssteen, and Marthinus Pretorius. "An overview of HLTs for South African Bantu languages." In the 2010 Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1899503.1899547.

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Adegbola, Tunde. "Building capacities in human language technology for African languages." In the First Workshop. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1564508.1564519.

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Bański, Piotr, and Beata Wójtowicz. "A repository of free lexical resources for African languages." In the First Workshop. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1564508.1564525.

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Duvenhage, Bernardt, Mfundo Ntini, and Phala Ramonyai. "Improved text language identification for the South African languages." In 2017 Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Robotics and Mechatronics (PRASA-RobMech). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/robomech.2017.8261150.

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Reports on the topic "African Academy of Languages":

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Barry Pittendrigh, Barry Pittendrigh. Ebola video voice-over recording in 10 African local languages. Experiment, December 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18258/4155.

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Afolayan, Anthony, Roumen Anguelov, Don Cowan, Maryke Labuschagne, Natasha Sacks, and Edilegnaw Wale Zegeye. Report on Grouped Peer Review of Scholarly Journals in Mathematics and Science. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2021/0075.

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The peer review report entitled Report on Grouped Peer Review of Scholarly Journals in Mathematics and Science is the 12th in a series of discipline-grouped evaluations of South African scholarly journals. This is part of a scholarly assurance process initiated by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). The process is centered on multi-perspective, discipline-based evaluation panels appointed by the Academy Council on the recommendation of the Academy’s Committee on Scholarly Publishing in South Africa (CSPiSA). This detailed report presents the peer review panel’s consolidated consensus reports on each journal and provides the panel’s recommendations in respect of DHET accreditation, inclusion on the SciELO SA platform and suggestions for improvement in general. The main purpose of the ASSAf review process for journals is to improve the scholarly publication in the country that is consonant with traditional scholarly practices.
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Burger, Philippe, Chris Callaghan, Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, David Coldwell, Rangan Gupta, Roula Inglesi-Lotz, Habofanwe Koloba, et al. Report on Grouped Peer Review of Scholarly Journals in Economics and Business Management. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2022/0079.

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The peer review report titled 'Report on Grouped Peer Review of Scholarly Journals in Economics and Business Management' is the 13th in a series of discipline-grouped evaluations of South African scholarly journals. This is part of a scholarly assurance process initiated by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). The process is centered on multi-perspective, discipline-based evaluation panels appointed by the Academy Council on the recommendation of the Academy’s Committee on Scholarly Publishing in South Africa (CSPiSA). This detailed report presents the peer review panel’s consolidated consensus reports on each journal and provides the panel’s recommendations in respect of DHET accreditation, inclusion on the SciELO SA platform and suggestions for improvement in general. The main purpose of the ASSAf review process for journals is to improve the scholarly publication in the country that is consonant with traditional scholarly practices.
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Rodrigues-Moura, Enrique, and Christina Märzhauser. Renegotiating the subaltern : Female voices in Peixoto’s «Obra Nova de Língua Geral de Mina» (Brazil, 1731/1741). Otto-Friedrich-Universität, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.20378/irb-57507.

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Out of ~11.000.000 enslaved Africans disembarked in the Americas, ~ 46% were taken to Brazil, where transatlantic slave trade only ended in 1850 (official abolition of slavery in 1888). In the Brazilian inland «capitania» Minas Gerais, slave numbers exploded due to gold mining in the first half of 18th century from 30.000 to nearly 300.000 black inhabitants out of a total ~350.000 in 1786. Due to gender demographics, intimate relations between African women and European men were frequent during Antonio da Costa Peixoto’s lifetime. In 1731/1741, this country clerk in Minas Gerais’ colonial administration, originally from Northern Portugal, completed his 42-page manuscript «Obra Nova de Língua Geral de Mina» («New work on the general language of Mina») documenting a variety of Gbe (sub-group of Kwa), one of the many African languages thought to have quickly disappeared in oversea slaveholder colonies. Some of Peixoto’s dialogues show African women who – despite being black and female and therefore usually associated with double subaltern status (see Spivak 1994 «The subaltern cannot speak») – successfully renegotiate their power position in trade. Although Peixoto’s efforts to acquire, describe and promote the «Língua Geral de Mina» can be interpreted as a «white» colonist’s strategy to secure his position through successful control, his dialogues also stress the importance of winning trust and cultivating good relations with members of the local black community. Several dialogues testify a degree of agency by Africans that undermines conventional representations of colonial relations, including a woman who enforces her «no credit» policy for her services, as shown above. Historical research on African and Afro-descendant women in Minas Gerais documents that some did not only manage to free themselves from slavery but even acquired considerable wealth.
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Francesco, Petruccione,, Gastrow, Michael, Hadzic, Senka, Limpitlaw, Justine, Paul, Babu Sena, Wolhuter, Riaan, and Kies, Carl. Evaluation of Alternative Telecommunication Technologies for the Karoo Central Astronomy Advantage Area. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2021/0073.

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The National Research Foundation (NRF) requested the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), on behalf of South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), to undertake an independent and objective evaluation of potential alternative telecommunication technologies for the areas of the Karoo Central Astronomy Advantage Areas (KCAAA). The study encompasses regulatory, public sphere, and technical dimensions to explore options for maintaining the functionality of the telescope while, at the same time, delivering appropriate connectivity solutions for local communities.The objectives of this study are as follows: 1) Assess the technologies currently being, or planning to be, deployed through existing alternative communications programs managed by SARAO, including whether these technologies are comparable with market available technologies that could feasibly be deployed in the KCAAA; and 2) Assessment of current and future telecommunication technologies that may act as suitable replacement and/or improvement (functional and feasible) for existing detrimental technologies, utilised in the KCAAA. This report provides a critical background into the relationship between the SKA and local communities as it relates to ICTs in the area. Based on this understanding, potential technology solutions are proposed to ensure residents of the KCAAA are still afforded valuable access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) within the parameters of affordability, desirability and feasibility.
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Orrnert, Anna. Review of National Social Protection Strategies. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.026.

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This helpdesk report reviews ten national social protection strategies (published between 2011-2019) in order to map their content, scope, development processes and measures of success. Each strategy was strongly shaped by its local context (e.g. how social development was defined, development priorities and existing capacity and resources) but there were also many observed similarities (e.g. shared values, visions for social protection). The search focused on identifying strategies with a strong social assistance remit from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Sub-Sarahan African and South and South-East Asian regions1 (Latin America was deemed out of scope due the advanced nature of social protection there). Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa are most widely available. Few examples are available from the MENA region2 – it may be that such strategies do not currently exist, that potential strategy development process are in more nascent stages or that those strategies that do exist are not accessible in English. A limitation of this review is that it has not been able to review strategies in other languages. The strategies reviewed in this report are from Bangladesh (2015), Cambodia (2011), Ethiopia (2012), Jordan (2019), Kenya (2011), Lesotho (2014), Liberia (2013), Rwanda (2011), Uganda (2015) and Zambia (2014). The content of this report focuses primarily on the information from these strategies. Where appropriate, it also includes information from secondary sources about other strategies where those original strategies could not be found (e.g. Saudi Arabia’s NSDS).
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3rd South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) Science and Society Symposium. Academy of Science of South Africa, June 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2018/0026.

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Report on Grouped Peer Review of Scholarly Journals in History, Philosophy and Politics. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2021/0071.

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The peer review report entitled Report on Grouped Peer Review of Scholarly Journals in History, Philosophy and Politics is the eleventh in a series of discipline-grouped evaluations of South African scholarly journals. This is part of a scholarly assurance process initiated by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). The process is centered on multi-perspective, discipline-based evaluation panels appointed by the Academy Council on the recommendation of the Academy’s Committee on Scholarly Publishing in South Africa (CSPiSA). This detailed report presents the peer review panel’s consolidated consensus reports on each journal and provides the panel’s recommendations in respect of DHET accreditation, inclusion on the SciELO SA platform and suggestions for improvement in general. The main purpose of the ASSAf review process for journals is to improve the scholarly publication in the country that is consonant with traditional scholarly practices.
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Exploring the Prospects of Using 3D Printing Technology in the South African Human Settlements. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2021/0074.

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South Africa is a country with significant socio-economic development challenges, with the majority of South Africans having limited or non-existent access to basic infrastructure, services, housing and socio-economic opportunities etc. The urban housing backlog currently exceeds 2.4 million houses, with many families living in informal settlements. The Breaking New Grounds Policy, 2014 for the creation of sustainable human settlements, acknowledges the challenges facing human settlements, such as, decreasing human settlements grants allocation, increasing housing backlog, mushrooming of informal settlements and urbanisation. The White Paper on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), 2019 notes that South Africa has not yet fully benefited from the potential of STI in addressing the socio-economic challenges and seeks to support the circular economy principles which entail a systematic change of moving to a zero or low waste resource-efficient society. Further to this, the Science and Technology Roadmap’s intention is to unlock the potential of South Africa’s human settlements for a decent standard of living through the smart uptake of science, technology and innovation. One such novel technology is the Three-Dimensional (3D) printing technology, which has produced numerous incredible structures around the world. 3D printing is a computer-controlled industrial manufacturing process which encompasses additive means of production to create 3D shapes. The effects of such a technology have a potential to change the world we live in and could subsequently pave the roadmap to improve on housing delivery and reduce the negative effects of conventional construction methods on the environment. To this end, the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), in partnership with the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the University of Johannesburg (UJ) hosted the second virtual IID seminar titled: Exploring the Prospects of Using 3D Printing Technology in the South African Human Settlements, on 01 March 2021 to explore the potential use of 3D printing technology in human settlements. The webinar presented preliminary findings from a study conducted by UJ, addressing the following topics: 1. The viability of 3D printing technology 2. Cost comparison of 3D printed house to conventional construction 3. Preliminary perceptions on 3D printing of houses Speakers included: Dr Jennifer Mirembe (NDoHS), Dr Jeffrey Mahachi, Mr Refilwe Lediga, Mr Khululekani Ntakana and Dr Luxien Ariyan, all from UJ. There was a unanimous consensus that collaborative efforts from all stakeholders are key to take advantage of this niche technology. @ASSAf_Official; @dsigovza; @go2uj; @The_DHS; #SA 3D_Printing; #3D Print_Housing; #IID
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Social, Psychological and Health Impact of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) on the Elderly: South African and Italian Perspectives. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2021/0069.

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The Panel discussion titled “The Presidential Employment Stimulus: Research Opportunities”, was hosted on 10 December 2020 by the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) at the Science Forum South Africa (SFSA) 2020. The Presidential Employment Stimulus was launched in parliament on 15 October as part of government’s Economic Recovery Strategy. It directly funds 800,000 employment opportunities that are being implemented within the current financial year, but it is anticipated that it will also become a medium-term programme. The stimulus includes public employment programmes, job retention programmes and direct support to livelihoods. The single largest programme is run by the Department of Basic Education, which, in the last fortnight, recruited 300,000 young people as school assistants, to assist schools to deal with the setbacks faced as a result of the pandemic. The stimulus supports employment in the environmental sector and over 75,000 subsistence producers are receiving production grants through an input voucher scheme. There is a once-off grant to assist over 100,000 registered and unregistered Early Childhood Development Practitioners back on their feet, as well as a significant stimulus to the creative sector. The session set out to provide an introduction to the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP), a key programme within government’s economic recovery plan led by Dr Kate Philip. The key objective was to get input from the research community on how the work that they are already doing and future work could contribute to the M&E efforts and be augmented in such a way that the PESP could become a medium-term programme. The DSI plans to hold further engagements in 2021 to mobilise the wider research community to provide evidence-based research in order to shape the research agenda that would support the M&E work and identify short-term issues that need to be factored into the department’s work plans, under the guidance of Dr Philip.

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