Dr. Karen Ferreira-Meyers
Senior Lecturer/Coordinator
LATEST PROJECTS
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Research Project | MIDT
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Learners’ Feedback on the effectiveness of IDE-Eng302/Eng302 using Moodle as a Delivery Platform
This particular study aimed at determining the meanings/sense learners give to their autonomous learning situation in a learning management system such as Moodle. The problem statement was centered around the learners and sought to find out how these learners rate/perceive their learning process and whether the instructional design of the environment in Moodle can assist in the learning of a course like ENG302 (Writing, composition and stylistics). It also sought to find out whether there were significant differences between respondents from the Institute of distance education IDE (part-time learners) and respondents who take the same course but on a full-time basis.
Research Project | Empowering School Teachers in Swaziland
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Research project funding (by Uniswa Research Board): title of empirical research project: Empowering School Teachers with Educational Technology using the Distance Education mode. Prof. Satish Rastogi (IDE), Dr. Karen Ferreira-Meyers (IDE), Dr. B. S. Dlamini (Faculty of Education) and Dr. N.H. Nsibande (Faculty of Education).
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General research |03
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Comparative Syntax of French, Portuguese, siSwati and English; Vocabulary and Terminology; Methodology of Foreign Language Teaching; Linguistics: Semantics, Pragmatics, Socio- and Psycholinguistics (language policy issues), Translation and Interpretation, XXth and XXIst century Francophone literature, African contemporary literature (genres: novel and cartoons).
Teacher training; content of DELF and DALF examinations; use of Internet in teaching and learning, e-learning (Moodle). Autofictional/autobiographical writing. Crime fiction.
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