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"Arabic-Afrikaans is coined and defined by Van Selms as Afrikaans written in Arabic script. The community where these texts were used consisted of the offspring of the slaves and tradesmen shipped to the Cape by the Dutch East Indian Company. They established Islam in South Africa."

"[T]he article introduces the concept of liminality not as an inevitable result of the migration process, but uses it to describe the long-term emotional and identity-related effects after migrants have achieved a degree of stability."

"This article examines the COVID-19 pandemic as a critical external determinant that fundamentally disrupted the functioning, structure, and resilience of the South African education system at all levels."

"The focus is especially on the functioning (nature and effect) of criminal tendencies within the South African political dispensation and the implications thereof for the democratic political dispensation."

"In this article, elements of various models and frameworks are discussed, including the simple view of reading, Scarborough’s rope, the pillars of reading, and the active view of reading. Frameworks of the reading system, such as the linguistic and writing system of reading by Perfetti and Stafura, and the direct and inferential mediation model of reading (DIME), are also discussed."

"[T]he aim of the research project was to investigate the technical translation quality of ChatGPT-4o from English into Afrikaans at two different reader levels, namely an expert reader level and a lay reader level. More specifically, the study sought to determine to what extent human intervention is still necessary to achieve a high-quality translation."

"The creation of interpreting-learning strategies from language-learning strategies is investigated to enrich the field of interpreting as a lifelong learning process."

"The assumption, therefore, is that preservice teachers and other role-players in teaching practice would try to comply with a code of ethics and code of conduct to act ethically during their teaching practice if these codes were available to them. The assumption is therefore that codes of ethics and conduct specific to teaching practice and with direct guidelines of what is expected of various role players, could enhance ethics in teaching practice."

"VivA’s Lees-en-luister application was examined to determine how it could be utilised as a teaching aid to support the development of reading and listening skills among Grade 4 to 6 Afrikaans FAL learners within a task-based teaching and learning approach."

"This article therefore wants to explore the logic behind the 2020 At of Romans 8:16. Why did it find it necessary to change the previous translations’ 'saam met' ('with') to 'teenoor' ('over against')?"

"This study is guided by UNESCO’s model of people, processes, places and principles, also referred to as the 'Happy Schools' framework. The aim of this global initiative is to promote well-being, education and adaptability by creating healthy and balanced teaching and learning environments."

"Before any interpretation or appropriation, one must carefully study the lexical concepts, grammar, syntax, structure and stylistic features of a text in its original language."

"Using the work and 1975 doctoral dissertation of the composer Roelof Temmingh as a point of departure, the article proposes that the most explicit self-identifications with the avant-garde in South African art music paradoxically reinforced Western modernist ideologies rather than challenging their institutional or political underpinnings."

"The article thus positions itself at the intersection of postmodern narratology, affect theory, and cognitive literary studies, seeking to demonstrate how postmodern form and affective experience need not be oppositional categories."

"For the purposes of the larger study, Breytenbach’s entire Afrikaans poetic oeuvre is divided into four periods which are compared with each other to determine whether signs of late style are present, and if so, which type(s) of late style can be identified."

"[A]ttention is paid to the run-up to the voyages of discovery, and what events and views formed the basis and led to the flourishing of the Portuguese maritime industry [...]. The discovery of a sea route around the southern tip of Africa to India did not happen all at once, but was preceded by a series of events that flowed together into a fascinating story that began in the Middle Ages with the founding of the Order of the Templars."

"[T]he American-led Western approach to Ukraine is an example of Mearsheimer’s buck-passing, so that Ukraine – in the language of Girard – is made the sacrificial lamb of the West and Russia its scapegoat."

"Investigating the (narratological and representational) differences in the Steynshoops of the two novels allows me the opportunity to reflect on how rural South Africa has changed in the quarter century between the two novels, and how these changes are mirrored and negotiated in the genre of the town novel."

"Calvin’s repeated insistence that the faithful should be overwhelmed, astonished, and left utterly speechless by the revelation of God’s glory when contemplating the beauty and magnificence of nature is of particular interest here."

"[D]ue to a lack of research regarding the integration of chatbots in schools to teach taboo words, the purpose of this research was to better understand the implications for education if chatbots are integrated in schools to teach taboo words."