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Multilingualism and the language curriculum in South Africa: contextualising French within the local language ecology 447 307 0 5 759
Writing centres as dialogic spaces: Negotiating conflicting discourses around citation and plagiarism 488 184 0 21 693
Using African languages at universities in South Africa: The struggle continues 335 70 0 6 411
Language ideologies and the politics of language in post-colonial Africa 135 186 0 0 321
Translating Yemeni cartoons into English: A Systemic Functional Linguistics approach 246 4 0 2 252
Narrative impact: How stories change minds 201 21 0 0 222
Using multimodal pedagogies in writing centres to improve student writing 189 9 0 2 200
Hiatus resolution in Xitsonga 158 26 0 1 185
Foreground and background in the narrative discourse of Luke's Gospel: Some remarks on the function of the Greek imperfect and pluperfect indicative tense-forms 142 13 0 8 163
The associative copulative and expression of bodily discomfort in Northern Sotho 77 39 0 3 119
Effects of morphology in the nativisation of loanwords: The borrowing of /s/ in Xitsonga 106 6 0 2 114
Extended exponence in isiNdebele morphology 102 8 0 0 110
An analysis of metaphorical idioms in South African Indian English 96 7 0 1 104
Are dialects markers of ethnic identity? The case of Setswana dialects and ethnic groups 93 10 0 0 103
The perfective and imperfective aspects in Xhosa 86 4 0 1 91
Interpreting research in South Africa: A bibliometric study 64 18 0 7 89
Space, place, and power in South African writing centres: Special issue in honour of Sharifa Daniels 75 11 0 1 87
The curse of poverty and marginalisation in language development: The case of Khoisan languages of Botswana 76 7 0 2 85
Stabilising determinants in the transmission of phonotactic systems: Diachrony and acquisition of coda clusters in Dutch and Afrikaans 79 2 0 2 83
The loyalty of the literary reviser: Author, source text, target text or reader? 76 4 0 1 81
Construction of deaf narrative identity in creative South African Sign Language 68 9 0 4 81
Speaker's reference, semantic reference and public reference 74 3 0 0 77
Mind the gap: Towards determining which collocations to teach 70 7 0 0 77
Youth discourse in multilingual Mauritius: The pragmatic significance of swearing in multiple languages 71 5 0 0 76
Afrikaanse taalvariasie: Uitdagings vir regverdige meting van jong kinders se taal 54 7 0 13 74
ATR vowel harmony in Ateso 62 4 0 1 67
A comparative study of depression in Bantu, Khoisan and Chinese Wu - laryngeal settings and feature specifications 47 19 0 0 66
Challenges of multilingual education: Streamlining affordances through Dominant Language Constellations 50 11 0 4 65
A usage-based investigation of Afrikaans-speaking children's holophrases and communicative intentions 52 8 0 4 64
A perfect end: A study of syllable codas in South African Sign Language 58 4 0 1 63
Developing agency in a writing centre context: A Social Realist interpretation 25 35 0 0 60
Distribution of conjunctive and disjunctive forms in Xitsonga 54 3 0 2 59
The syntax of relative clause constructions in Runyankore-Rukiga: A typological perspective 47 8 0 2 57
From African languages to an African perspective on language: The work and research of Prof. Marianna W. Visser 48 5 0 2 55
Against words with two main stresses: The case of Guugu Yimidhirr revisited 49 2 0 2 53
Yorubá vowel deletion involves compensatory lengthening: Evidence from phonetics 28 18 0 5 51
Equitable multilingualism? The case of Stellenbosch University Writing Laboratory 44 4 0 2 50
Negation of subject with nominal modifiers in Sesotho 42 2 0 0 44
A spin to preserve contrast: Taiwanese tone sandhi 36 4 0 4 44
Sensationalism in argumentation: A case of the Zimbabwean parliament debates 37 5 0 1 43
The syntax of interjections in isiXhosa: A a corpus-driven study 36 5 0 1 42
"We are not a 'fix-it shop'": The writing centre as a uniquely configured learning space 31 8 0 0 39
Decentering and recentering the writing centre using online feedback: Towards a collaborative model of integrating academic literacies development 31 5 0 2 38
Combining Forces: The South African Sign Language Bible Translation Project 35 2 0 0 37
Evaluating four readability formulas for Afrikaans 35 1 0 0 36
A heuristic framework for voice instruction at the doctoral level 31 3 0 0 34
Writing centre consultants as critical friends 29 4 0 1 34
Interpreter training: Devising a model for aptitude testing for simultaneous interpreters 29 5 0 0 34
The subjective use of postural verb in Afrikaans (I): evolution from progressive to modal 27 3 0 3 33
Recontextualisation and reappropriation of social and political discourses in toilet graffiti at the University of the Western Cape 28 5 0 0 33
The subjective use of postural verbs in Afrikaans (II): a corpus analysis of CPV en in Zefrikaans 29 2 0 1 32
What the giant tells us about agreeing post-verbal subjects in Xhosa 25 6 0 1 32
'Hopeful' directions for writing centres in South Africa: From safe spaces to transitional sites of articulating practice 24 5 0 3 32
Exploring the gap between what we say and what we do: Writing centres, 'safety', and 'risk' in higher education 28 4 0 0 32
Deconstructing and reinventing the concept of multilingualism: A case study of the Mauritian sociolinguistic landscape 28 3 0 0 31
Negotiating new ways of developing writing in disciplinary spaces: The changing role of writing consultants at the Wits School of Education Writing Centre 20 11 0 0 31
Validating the performance standards set for language assessments of academic readiness: The case of Stellenbosch University 28 1 0 1 30
'n Vergelykende ondersoek na die Afrikaans- en Zulu-vertalings van "South Africa's Suspended Revolution: Hopes and Prospects" deur Adam Habib 28 0 0 1 29
Resolving verbal reduplication paradoxes in Malawian Tonga 27 1 0 0 28
Meeting them halfway: Altering language conventions to facilitate human-robot interaction 25 2 0 1 28
Writing within simultaneity: A reflective progress report through letters from the Wits Writing Programme 21 7 0 0 28
On augment-less NPs in Xhosa and de NPs in French 23 3 0 2 28
The lexical semantics and syntax interface of anticausative alternations in Kiwoso 10 7 0 10 27
The 'rise and fall' of a genre: The generic and rhetorical renditions of a Runyankore-Rukiga editorial 24 2 0 1 27
Assessing spoken-language educational interpreting: Measuring up and measuring right 25 1 0 0 26
Evaluating the Synthesis Model of tutoring across the educational spectrum 22 3 0 0 25
From physical to online spaces in the age of the #FeesMustFall protests: A Critical Interpretative Synthesis of writing centres in emergency situations 18 7 0 0 25
Aiming beyond the written, to the writer and writing: The writing consultation as a mentoring process for life-long writing 17 7 0 1 25
The path to verbal bodily diagnostics in isiXhosa 21 1 0 2 24
Buriat dorsal epenthesis is not reproduced with novel morphemes 19 4 0 1 24
It may be copyrighted, but it still needs help: Improving research questionnaires by means of intralingual translation 22 0 0 1 23
High tone lowering and raising in Tsua 22 1 0 0 23
An interview with Sharifa Daniels 22 1 0 0 23
Kernstappe vir kwaliteitbestuur in die vertaalbedryf en in akademiese vertaalkantore 17 2 0 2 21
Definition and design: Aligning language interventions in education 20 1 0 0 21
China Town as a multilingual workplace 13 3 0 4 20
Power dynamics in writing consultations and potential lessons for teaching: An English Studies perspective 17 2 0 0 19
Adapting writing laboratory activities to different spaces and cultures 17 1 0 0 18
Prosodic marking of focus and givenness in Kinyarwanda and Rwandan English 15 2 0 1 18
Die waarde van Akteur-Netwerk-Teorie en 'n etnografiese navorsingstrategie vir die ondersoek van opvoedkundige tolking aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch 10 1 0 6 17
Op pad na optimale ondersteuning vir akademiese geletterdhede: Die strewe na beter belyning tussen teorie en praktyk 14 1 0 2 17
From the Writing Lab to the ESL classroom 15 2 0 0 17
South Africa's image as translated in Dutch-language media 16 0 0 1 17
In-between access and transformation: Analysing a university writing centre's academic support programme for education students as third space 10 4 0 2 16
Then and now: The relevance of the writing consultant experience today 13 3 0 0 16
Dative applicative elements in Arusa (Maa): A canonical approach to the argument-adjunct distinction 12 2 0 2 16
On cosmopolitan translation and how worldviews might change 14 0 0 2 16
On five-level tone contrasts: The case of Dan-Gblewo 13 1 0 2 16
Editors' Preface 9 6 0 0 15
Van tematiese na alfabetiese na tematiese ordening in woordeboeke - wisselwerking tussen teorie en praktyk 11 1 0 2 14
A pseudo-consecutive non-canonical serial verb construction in isiXhosa 11 3 0 0 14
Using reflective pedagogy to improve writing consultant practice 13 1 0 0 14
Participation and decision-making at community development meetings: An appraisal of a subtle style in Luganda 8 5 0 1 14
Die sigbaarheid van vertaaldheid in resensies van vertaalde Engelse en Afrikaanse romans 13 0 0 1 14
Die wisselwerking tussen teorie en praktyk in die ontwerp van 'n kurrikulum met transtaling as kernkomponent 11 1 0 1 13
Principles and challenges of programme planning at a language centre serving two Swiss universities 13 0 0 0 13
Clear mind, full head, can't lose 12 1 0 0 13
Manifestation of kubanga causal connectives in English-Luganda bilingual discourse 10 2 0 1 13
A long walk to freedom: Charting a way for doing comparative translation studies in Africa 8 2 0 2 12
Phonetic and phonological considerations on the moraic status of pre-NC vowels in Bemba 8 2 0 2 12
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