| Summary: | Thesis (MA (African Languages))--Stellenbosch University, 20008. === This study employs the theoretical framework of text construction advanced by Feez
and Joyce (1998) and Grabe and Kaplan (1996) for the analysis of Xhosa texts of
biographical recounting and consequential explanation.
Text-linguistic methods are used to analyse five written biographical recounting texts
and five written consequential explanation texts taken from Bona magazine. These
text-linguistic methods explore the incorporation of texts in the National Curriculum
2005, in order to equip both teachers and learners with the skills to get to know the
Xhosa language – to learn, to teach and to follow the language structure when
writing.
The analysis facilitates the discovery of the communicative purpose, culture and
social elements in written text. In addition, models of writing, text-linguistic
construction, properties of written text and elements of text structure are explored in
the analysis of the Xhosa texts. Based on these terms, the broad emphasis will be on
parameters of the ethnography of writing as proposed by Grabe and Kaplan (1996).
These parameters are, among others, as follows: who writes what to whom, for what
purpose, why, when, where and how? This study also proves that the theoretical
framework advanced by Feez and Joyce (1998) and Grabe and Kaplan (1996) about
written texts could result in effective teachers and learners who have acquired skills
and become text experts.
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