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Igor Kotlyar; Noel J. Pearse; Joe Krasman – Discover Education, 2024
AI-based simulations for educational and assessment purposes are gaining global recognition. Informed by cultural comparison research, this study investigates cross-country variations in users' utilization and perceptions of a simulation-based assessment. Specifically, we conducted a comparative analysis between a sample of South African and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Simulation
Tlatso Nkhobo; Chaka Chaka – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2023
This article reports on a comparative analysis of two sets of essays, student-discursive essays (SDEs) and ChatGPT-generated discursive essays (ChatGPT-GDEs) on the same essay topic using Coh-Metrix. It focused on three Coh-Metrix indices, lexical density, syntactic complexity, and referential cohesion as the basis for the comparative analysis.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition)
Bylund, Emanuel; Athanasopoulos, Panos – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
The present study seeks to expand the current focus on acquisition situations in linguistic relativity research by exploring the effects of nativisation (the process by which a L2 is acquired as a L1) on language-specific cognitive behaviour. Categorisation preferences of goal-oriented motion events were investigated in South African speakers who…
Descriptors: Motion, Classification, Native Language, English
de Klerk, Vivian – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2006
The paper analyses selected aspects of the codeswitching behaviour in a spoken corpus of the English of 326 people, all of them mother-tongue speakers of Xhosa (a local African language in South Africa), and all of whom would see themselves as Xhosa/English bilinguals. The corpus comprises approximately 550,000 transcribed words of spontaneous,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), African Languages
van der Westhuijzen, Leo – Deutschunterricht in Sudafrika, 1972
This article makes two points about foreign language: (1) proper pronunciation is indispensable to initial accuracy and comprehension, as well as to later study of literature and culture; and (2) the best approach to pronunciation is based on the native language as a contrastive model. Taking as an example the learning of German by…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, German, Interference (Language), Language Instruction
Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
Monographs on pragmatics and language learning include: "Do We All Apologize the Same?--An Empirical Study on the Act of Apologizing by Spanish Speakers Learning English" (Montserrat Mir); "Conversational Openings in Kiswahili: The Pragmatic Performance of Native and Non-Native Speakers" (Alwiya S. Omar); "Experimental and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Cultural Traits

de Kadt, Elizabeth – World Englishes, 2002
Draws on studies of gender and bilingualism to investigate ways in which acquisition and usage patterns of English as an additional language in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa may be gendered. Results are interpreted in terms of the construction of gender identities, to explore ways in which gender identities may be changing in modernizing contexts.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Patterns

Finlayson, Rosalie; Calteaux, Karen; Myers-Scotton, Carol – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1998
Argues that specific patterns of code switching indicate how language is both an index of identity and a tool of communication in South Africa. Suggests speakers exhibit strong loyalty to their first language by the codeswitching patterns they use. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bantu Languages, Code Switching (Language), Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Peeters, Yvo J. D., Ed.; Williams, Colin H., Ed. – 1993
Papers from a conference on cartography in geolinguistics include: "The Political Importance of Visualisation of Language Contact" (Yvo J. D. Peeters); "Some Considerations on People and Boundaries" (Guy Heraud); "Geolinguistic Developments and Cartographic Problems" (Colin H. Williams, John E. Ambrose); "A…
Descriptors: Cartography, Foreign Countries, Geographic Distribution, Language Patterns
de Kadt, Elizabeth – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
A study investigated requests as speech acts in "Zulu English," the English of Zulu first-language speakers, seeking to explain miscommunication in interactions between Zulu- and English-speakers by pointing to pragmatic transfer as one possible cause. Data were collected by means of a series of discourse completion tests in Zulu, Zulu…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Prinsloo, Mastin, Ed.; Breier, Mignonne, Ed. – 1996
Essays on literacy patterns and practices in South Africa include: "Literacy, Voter Education and Constructions of Citizenship in the Western Cape During the First Democratic National Elections in South Africa" (Mastin Prinsloo, Steven Robins); "Literacy, Knowledge, Gender, and Power in the Workplace on Three Farms in the Western…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Case Studies, Citizenship Education, Cultural Context