Ramona Kunene Nicolas

Biographic Data

ID3531424
NAMERamona Kunene Nicolas
GIVEN NAMESRamona Kunene
FAMILY NAMENicolas
SIGNATURENICOLAS R K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ORCID0000-0002-0100-2388
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • The Discursive Strategies in the Spoken Narratives of Multilingual Sepitori and Sesotho Speakers

    Open AccessRamona Kunene Nicolas, Nonhlanhla NtuliARTICLELanguages2025References: 38

    In linguistically diverse and multilingual South African communities, it is common to use non-standard language varieties (NSLVs), often called mixed languages, as lingua franca. These NSLVs are primarily spoken in black townships throughout South Africa. Previous studies show that the discursive production of oral narratives impacts the development and use of higher-order language processing, as they require the knowledge, language skills and ab…

  • The categorisation of questions in the assessment of language subjects for multilingual learners in South African primary schools

    Nonhlanhla Ntuli, Ramona Kunene NicolasARTICLESouth African Journal of African…2023

    This study examines the structure and cognitive demands of questions found in Grade 5 learners’ English first additional language (FAL) and isiZulu home language (HL) subject workbooks. Using document analysis as the qualitative method, the present study provides an analysis of different comprehension task questions using Bloom’s revised taxonomy of educational objectives (BRT) as a framework for evaluating the standard and existence of a continu…

  • Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research

    Paulina Aravena-Bravo, Alejandrina Cristia et al.PREPRINT2023

    A survey of diversity in leading language acquisition journals revealed that only 2% of the 7,000+ languages of the world are represented. With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to this literature, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/). /L+/ was a free 5-day virtual school that facilitated the interchange of expertise among early career researche…

  • A cross-linguistic study of the development of gesture and speech in Zulu and French oral narratives

    Open AccessRamona Kunene Nicolas, Michèle Guidetti et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2017

    The present study reports on a developmental and cross-linguistic study of oral narratives produced by speakers of Zulu (a Bantu language) and French (a Romance language). Specifically, we focus on oral narrative performance as a bimodal (i.e., linguistic and gestural) behaviour during the late language acquisition phase. We analyzed seventy-two oral narratives produced by L1 Zulu and French adults and primary school children aged between five an…

  • How Language Began

    Ramona Kunene NicolasARTICLELanguage and Sociocultural Theory2016

    How Language Began: Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution David McNeill (2012)

  • Effects of age and language on co-speech gesture production

    Open AccessJean-Marc Colletta, Michèle Guidetti et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2015

    The aim of this paper is to compare speech and co-speech gestures observed during a narrative retelling task in five- and ten-year-old children from three different linguistic groups, French, American, and Italian, in order to better understand the role of age and language in the development of multimodal monologue discourse abilities. We asked 98 five- and ten-year-old children to narrate a short, wordless cartoon. Results showed a common develo…