| Summary: | Thesis (MPhil (Modern Foreign Languages))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. === Over the past three years, Weston High School has received an increasing number of
Xhosa-speaking learners. They come from remote rural towns in the Eastern Cape. At
present, there are approximately forty Xhosa-speaking learners at the school. Many of
these learners understand very little English or Afrikaans while others speak “broken”
Afrikaans and / or English. They have a lack op prior knowledge and their exposure to
Afrikaans was limited.
As part of this project, a computer programme was designed to support the Afrikaans
language needs of these learners. The programme endeavours to develop the limited
vocabulary and language abilities of these learners in elementary Afrikaans. The
emphasis is on Afrikaans as a medium of communication. The programme has been
developed according to the language needs of these learners.
The design and composition of the project is based on general theoretical principals of
computer-assisted language learning (CALL). The project is discussed and analysed
within the CALL environment.
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