Joanine Hester Nel
Biographic Data
| ID | 5889669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanine Hester Nel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanine Hester |
| FAMILY NAME | Nel |
| SIGNATURE | NEL J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7618-6014 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Afrikaans first language wh -question acquisition in low socio-economic status Grade 1 learners
Young typically developing children find wh-questions challenging, while researchers typically expect children from low socio-economic status (SES) contexts to struggle more with language tasks, even when wh-questions test fundamental grammatical skills, especially in children aged four and older. This study thus aims to ascertain how well low SES typically developing Afrikaans first language (L1) Grade 1 learners perform on the comprehension and…
An exploratory analysis of code-switching and borrowing in a corpus of Zimbabwean English
Articles in Zimbabwean English
This study investigated the usage frequency of articles in the Zimbabwean English (ZE) corpus and the International corpus of English Great Britain (ICE-GB) for British English (BrE) to determine whether there are variations between the two corpora. A log-likelihood test was used to determine whether the observed variations were statistically significant. In addition, eight morphosyntactic features that are reported to show variation by Kortmann,…
The helpfulness of code-switching in teaching Afrikaans as a first additional language
This study aimed to establish the different perceptions that teachers of Afrikaans First Additional Language (FAL) hold towards the helpfulness of different teaching strategies and their effectiveness in the language learning process of Afrikaans FAL in a high school setting. Code-switching has been proven to be a common strategy used by teachers in teaching languages to learners in bilingual and multilingual situations that can serve as a resour…
The Comprehension and Production of Passive Constructions by Afrikaans and isiXhosa First Language Grade 1 Children
The acquisition of passives is well-studied in many languages, with evidence of crosslinguistic differences in the age at which passives are acquired. The aim of this study is to add to the existing knowledge of child acquisition of passives by providing data from Afrikaans and isiXhosa, two under-researched and typologically different languages spoken in South Africa. Comprehension and production data were collected from first language speakers …
The comprehension of ellipsis in isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners
Ellipsis occurs on and above sentence level, forming a part of the discourse-internal linguistic devices that children need to access and comprehend narratives and other classroom discourse for literacy and academic literacy development A dearth exists in the knowledge about the development and mastery of ellipsis in child language, specifically for speakers of African languages regarding both first and second language acquisition timetables and …
Material Evaluation of Communicative Competence in a Setswana Beginner Language Learning Course
This study investigated the possible facilitation of communicative competence development in adult beginner learners of Setswana in a set of self-access course materials. The overarching aim was to evaluate this set of self-access course materials to determine whether, and how, it facilitated the successful development of everyday communicative competence. Following a material evaluation procedure, a mixed method of data evaluation was used, incl…
Discourse markers so and well in Zimbabwean English
This analysis of discourse markers so and well in Zimbabwean English (ZE) and British English was carried out to determine possible statistically significant variations in their occurrence and function frequencies in spoken and written registers, and in different genres to ascertain if they are used in the same manner in both languages and in different language use contexts. The ZE corpus and the International Corpus of English‐Great Britain (ICE…
Analysing Afrikaans-English bilingual children’s conversational code switching
It has been observed that children mix languages more often if they have been exposed to mixed speech, especially if they are in bilingual company. Very little research, however, exists on the code switching (CS) of children brought up in multilingual contexts. The study discussed in this paper investigates the grammatical and socio-pragmatic characteristics of the conversational CS of three Afrikaans-English bilingual children and aims to contri…
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Analysing Afrikaans-English bilingual children’s conversational code switching
It has been observed that children mix languages more often if they have been exposed to mixed speech, especially if they are in bilingual company. Very little research, however, exists on the code switching (CS) of children brought up in multilingual contexts. The study discussed in this paper investigates the grammatical and socio-pragmatic characteristics of the conversational CS of three Afrikaans-English bilingual children and aims to contri…
The comprehension of ellipsis in isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners
Ellipsis occurs on and above sentence level, forming a part of the discourse-internal linguistic devices that children need to access and comprehend narratives and other classroom discourse for literacy and academic literacy development A dearth exists in the knowledge about the development and mastery of ellipsis in child language, specifically for speakers of African languages regarding both first and second language acquisition timetables and …
Material Evaluation of Communicative Competence in a Setswana Beginner Language Learning Course
This study investigated the possible facilitation of communicative competence development in adult beginner learners of Setswana in a set of self-access course materials. The overarching aim was to evaluate this set of self-access course materials to determine whether, and how, it facilitated the successful development of everyday communicative competence. Following a material evaluation procedure, a mixed method of data evaluation was used, incl…
Discourse markers so and well in Zimbabwean English
This analysis of discourse markers so and well in Zimbabwean English (ZE) and British English was carried out to determine possible statistically significant variations in their occurrence and function frequencies in spoken and written registers, and in different genres to ascertain if they are used in the same manner in both languages and in different language use contexts. The ZE corpus and the International Corpus of English‐Great Britain (ICE…
Articles in Zimbabwean English
This study investigated the usage frequency of articles in the Zimbabwean English (ZE) corpus and the International corpus of English Great Britain (ICE-GB) for British English (BrE) to determine whether there are variations between the two corpora. A log-likelihood test was used to determine whether the observed variations were statistically significant. In addition, eight morphosyntactic features that are reported to show variation by Kortmann,…
The helpfulness of code-switching in teaching Afrikaans as a first additional language
This study aimed to establish the different perceptions that teachers of Afrikaans First Additional Language (FAL) hold towards the helpfulness of different teaching strategies and their effectiveness in the language learning process of Afrikaans FAL in a high school setting. Code-switching has been proven to be a common strategy used by teachers in teaching languages to learners in bilingual and multilingual situations that can serve as a resour…
The Comprehension and Production of Passive Constructions by Afrikaans and isiXhosa First Language Grade 1 Children
The acquisition of passives is well-studied in many languages, with evidence of crosslinguistic differences in the age at which passives are acquired. The aim of this study is to add to the existing knowledge of child acquisition of passives by providing data from Afrikaans and isiXhosa, two under-researched and typologically different languages spoken in South Africa. Comprehension and production data were collected from first language speakers …
Afrikaans first language wh -question acquisition in low socio-economic status Grade 1 learners
Young typically developing children find wh-questions challenging, while researchers typically expect children from low socio-economic status (SES) contexts to struggle more with language tasks, even when wh-questions test fundamental grammatical skills, especially in children aged four and older. This study thus aims to ascertain how well low SES typically developing Afrikaans first language (L1) Grade 1 learners perform on the comprehension and…
An exploratory analysis of code-switching and borrowing in a corpus of Zimbabwean English
Linguistics (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · History (3 works) · Language Development and Disorders (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works)