Investigating literacy narratives among ethno-linguistically diverse South African students

Vocabulary used by ethno-linguistically diverse South African toddlers: a parent report using the language development survey.

OBJECTIVE The primary aim of this study was to ascertain the relevance of the vocabulary of the Language Development Survey (LDS) for typically developing South African toddlers who attend ethno-linguistically diverse early childhood development centres. RATIONALE The need for exploration of the expressive vocabulary of this population stems from the diverse linguistic contexts to which toddl...

investigating email literacy of iranian students’ learning english

abstract this study aimed at analyzing a corpus of emails gathered from iranian students studying in england. the corpus contained 996 emails that were investigated by employing the framework of chen (2006) to find common patterns in the discourse of these emails. another aim of the study was to find how two request acts (want statements and query preparatory) were used in the emails. the...

Factors affecting condom use among South African university students.

OBJECTIVE To investigate factors affecting condom use among South African university students. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Department of Psychology, University of the North, South Africa. PARTICIPANTS One hundred and forty six female and sixty first year male psychology students, mean age 20.9 years (SD = 3.4), with a range from 17 to 34 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Sexual ac...

Suicidal ideation and attempt among South African medical students.

International data reveal that medical students are at higher risk of attempting suicide than the general population. We aimed to determine the prevalence of suicidal ideation and attempt among South African medical students from three universities and identify key predisposing risk factors. Data were collected via a questionnaire to medical students on demographics, mental health history, depr...

Uses and gratifications of mobile Internet among South African students