The Effect of Sense of Meaning in the First-year of Study on Throughput at an Institution of Higher Learning in South Africa

Abstract

Inevitably, life in the twenty-first century globalised world brings people into contact with "others". Through these contacts, the need for interactions demands that these people find different ways of understanding one another to generate knowledge. In order for them to achieve this objective, they need a strong and coherent medium. First additional language education has been developed in South Africa to unravel as well as address challenges posed to competence in intercultural communication, with the emphasis placed on how to communicate with a different "other" since the world now has become a small village. The study made use of a qualitative research methodology, revolving around an ethnographic design. The research population constituted lecturers, tutors and students from the University of Western Cape. The four principal tools used for data collection included: Interviews, Questionnaires, Naturally Occurring data and Participant Observation.

Anxiety only makes it worse: Exploring the impact mechanisms of app‐based learning on performance progress

“…However, few insights have examined the influence of environmental incentives on the consequent learning processes and outcomes from an analytical perspective (Liu et al, 2020). Our results are in accord with previous studies indicating that mental engagement design (Khedher et al, 2019), meaning clues (Makola, 2015), and real‐time accomplishment perception (Imran, 2019) could predict subsequent behavioural routine and learning performance through learning app (Yang et al, 2016). Although existing evidence emphasized learners could collaborate and communicate with each other by the mobile technology, our findings indicated that it is insufficient to merely focus on engaging design and sophisticated social features.…”