Litnet

"Given the emphasis on using multimodal teaching for both language teaching and learning, subtitles can be a highly beneficial component of foreign language learning."

"The answer to the question whether the reading of the Purgatory could deepen the reader’s conception and experience of the far-reaching events of Easter is not a simple 'yes'."

"The philosophical requires a free and spontaneous discussion and interaction about the meaning of texts, and provides a platform for a type of thinking that invites others outside to participate."

"Although it is widely accepted that courts, and even the state, should not force religious associations to exercise their religion in a particular way, they are not automatically exempt from procedural constitutional and other legislative provisions and measures."

"Twenty years later one can state that the interpretation of the events is a good example of both concepts of loyal resistance and the idea of the continuous, open dialogue that moulded Naspers’s inherent culture."

"Nell's text thus, especially by its use of numinous and mystical elements, provides a provocative and profound perspective on the human soul and the continuous quest for psychological integration."

"Through knowledge of the natural systems and an understanding of the intertwinement of all things in the cycle of life, the child reader may be empowered to engage in talking about the natural environment and environmental issues in an informed and critical way."

"Online learning environments allow teachers to collectively solve the problems they encounter, despite hierarchical, geographical and time differences."

"During the last century and more we learned to accept the idea that being is not an unchangeable reality, but a mere construct imposed on an empty, meaningless and random reality through our own rhetorical inventiveness and technical manipulations."

"Ultimately, we found that while a literal translation was feasible due to the close link between the Afrikaans and German language systems, it remains necessary to pay attention to the conventions of Afrikaans in order not to detract from the target-text reader’s experience of the text."

"The analysis therefore indicates that figurative expressions such as patriotic songs may act as powerful political instruments with a view to nation-building and the strengthening of ideological beliefs."

"The objective of this investigation, namely to establish whether learners’ sight vocabulary can be improved by means of enjoyable flash card activities, was achieved. In general there was improvement in reading speed, reading accuracy and comprehension."

"Believers are not purely cognitive beings. They are beings who try to make sense of their lives and experience by interpreting these in terms of the heritage of faith handed down to them in a religious tradition. In this way faith is a hermeneutical rather than a cognitive phenomenon."

"Pentecostals assume that God still speaks through prophets and prophecy that often contains social and religious criticism against the church or individuals. Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible displays diversity, sometimes as the interpretation of dreams and visions and at other times as insights formed in the mind."

"This article reports on an acoustic investigation into aspects of the vowel system of Genadendal Afrikaans (GA), an important variety of so-called Coloured Afrikaans which is spoken in the Western Cape. The aforementioned vowel system is compared with that of Standard Afrikaans (SA)."

"Through preaching, Bible study, programmes and other methods, the Church could use the values of reciprocity and responsibility to assert that one should do to older people what you would like done to you."

"An extended degree programme is based on the same curriculum as the mainstream programme, but students are granted an additional year of study along with supplementary learning opportunities and student support to complete the requirements for the qualification."

"Despite poor academic results by learners from poor, rural backgrounds together with popular media often positioning them as deficient in the schooling system, this article suggests that it is these unique forms of capital which are central in supporting such learners to remain in school and that these generalisations often conceal an undiscovered world of navigational strategies that these learners use to stay on course."

"It is found that as a cultural mediator, Small in his eagerness to introduce Louw to English-speaking South Africans, and in one instance, to young black South African students, may be reconstructing Louw’s position."

"This article asks the question whether one can speak of a transnational poetics in the case of poets who write in a local and minor language such as Afrikaans."