languagehat January 31, 2019 at 4:36 pm Congratulations, and yes, it’s entirely conceivable it could have been the lowest. January First-of-Maysays January 31, 2019 at 5:07 pm I’m reminded of the Sheldon coin grades (the system used in the USA) – past the obvious “Mint State”...
The language is natural, the way people talk. In this case voice is reassuring, letting the user know that we're doing the work. Use of "we" provides a more personal feel. If you restart now, you and any other people using this PC could lose unsaved work. As jy nou herbegin, kan...
By the end of the Grade 1 year, the isiXhosa group had acquired full comprehension and production of all passive types, whereas the Afrikaans group had fully acquired comprehension of both short and full passives with actional verbs but not yet passive production. Language group differences are...
The participants consisted of learners in Grade 4 to 7 (n = 1 103) in North-West Province with respectively Afrikaans, English and Tswana as their home language. Results from the data, by calculating intercorrelations and stepwise regression, confirmed that learners' performance in mathematics (...
Bakhtin's view of language interillumination – that languages throw light on each other – challenges such language teaching practices radically. Using conversation analysis methods, this article examines transcripts of interactional sequences from one eighth-grade French......