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Professor Frenette Southwood

Acting Heard of Department???

Qualifications: PhD
 fs@sun.ac.za
+27 21 808 2010?
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Short biography:??

Highest Qualifications

PhD (Radboud 肆客足球 Nijmegen)entitled “Specific language impairment in Afrikaans: Providing a Minimalist account for problems with grammatical features and word order".

Fields of academic expertise

Child language, language impairment

Current research project(s) as at December 2021

Early childhood language development and family socialisation in three South African language communities Towards a dialect-neutral evaluation instrument for the language skills of South
African English and Afrikaans-speaking children Linguistically fair and culturally relevant early child language assessment:
Developing the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventory in seven South African languages

Recent completed research projects

Receptive and expressive activities for language therapy

Recent Publications

Simonsen, H.D.G. & Southwood, F. 2021. Child language assessment across different multilingual contexts: Insights and challenges from South and North. In: U. R?yneland
& R. Blackwood. Multilingualism across the Lifespan. New York: Routledge.
Southwood, F., & White, M.J. 2021. The elicited production of part/whole and general/specific articles by 4- to 9-year-old Afrikaans-speaking and South African English-speaking children. Language Matters. https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2020.1825514
Southwood, F., White, M.J., Brookes, H., Pascoe, M., Ndhambi, M., Yalala, S., Mahura, O.,
M?ssmer, M., Oosthuizen, H., Brink, N., & Alcock, K. 2021. Sociocultural factors
affecting vocabulary development in young South African children. Frontiers in Psychology 12: 1645. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.642315
Southwood, F. & de la Marque Van Heukelum, M.L. 2020. Intercultural communicative
competence is essential for students of international business – but can it be taught?
The case of third-year BCom students. South African Journal of Higher Education
34(3): 297–318.
Southwood, F., & White, M.J. 2020. Fast mapping of Verbs in Afrikaans-speaking children
from low and mid socioeconomic backgrounds and children with language impairment. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2020.1839968
Southwood, F., Oosthuizen, H. & the Southern African CDI team. 2020. Afrikaanse
taalvariasie: Uitdagings vir regverdige meting van jong kinders se taal. SPiL PLUS 59:
81–104.
Oosthuizen, H. & Southwood, F. 2019. South Africa. In Law, J., McKean, C., Murphy, C.-A.,
& Thordardottir, E. (Eds.) Managing children with developmental language disorder:
Theory and practice across Europe and beyond. Oxon: Routledge. pp. 441–450.
Ssentanda, M.E., Huddlestone, K. & Southwood, F. 2019. “800 words in three years":
Curricula expectations versus teachers' opinions and practices in teaching English in
rural primary schools in Uganda. Language Matters 50(2): 141–163.
Haman, E., M. ?uniewska, P. Hansen, H.G. Simonsen, S. Chiat, J. Bjeki?, A. Bla?ien?, K.
Chyl, I. Daba?inskien?, P. Engel de Abreu, N. Gagarina, A. Gavarró, G. H?kansson, E.
Harel, E. Holm, S. Kapalková, S. Kunnari, C. Levorato, J. Lindgren, K. Mieszkowska, L.
Montes Salarich, A. Potgieter, I. Ribu, N. Ringblom, T. Rinker, M. Roch, D. Slan?ová, F.
Southwood, R. Tedeschi, A. Müge Tuncer, ?. ?nal-Logacev, J. Vuksanovi? & S.
Armon-Lotem. 2017. Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children
across 17 languages: Data from cross-linguistic lexical tasks (LITMUS-CLT). Clinical
Linguistics & Phonetics 31(11–12): 818–843

Recent MA supervision

T. Beyers. 2021. Scents and sensitivity: The emotional valence and flexibility of
Afrikaans taste and smell adjectives.
T. Collington-O'Malley. 2021. 'What's in a name?': Political correctness,
euphemism, and the impact of name-words on thought.
L. Schütz. In progress. The foreign language effect in a southern African context.

Current PhD supervision (as at December 2021)

M. Kajombo. Communicating cultural taboo and women's bodies: A
sociolinguistic study of speech codes in gynaecological consultations in Blantyre,
Malawi (Co-supervisor).
A. Nozewu. Investigating the language practices and literacy practices of isiXhosa
families in Western Cape homes: An ethnographic approach (Co-supervisor).

Recent completed PhD supervision

M. White. 2018. Processes underlying language development and rate of English language acquisition, with specific reference to ELLs in a multilingual South African Grade R classroom.
S. Nahayo. 2017. Construction of linguistic identities among cross-border
communities: The case of Samia of Uganda and Samia of Kenya (Co-supervisor).
J. Nel. 2015. The comprehension and production of later developing language
constructions by Afrikaans-, English- and isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners.

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Prof Mawande Dlali

Associate Professor

Qualifications: PhD
mdl@sun.ac.za
+27 21 808 2014
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 Curriculum Vitae

Prof Mawande Dlali is the Associate Professor and Head of Department of African languages at Stellenbosch 肆客足球. He has vast experience of 肆客足球 teaching and research on African languages and Linguistics and has published high quality journal articles and chapters in books. His main interest is Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, political discourse and Interpersonal communication. He is also preoccupied with the description and documentation of highly endangered languages. His central concern is to investigate the circumstances and processes of language endangerment and marginalisation. 

Prof Dlali holds a PhD degree from SU and is a member of several editorial boards and academic associations. He has also been involved in many national projects aimed at promoting national languages.

Prof Marianna Visser

Professor

Qualifications: PhD
mwv@sun.ac.za
+27 21 808 2217
 ResearchGate Profile?
 Curriculum Vitae

The exploration of the theory-research -practice relationships is characteristic of the teaching and research activities of Marianna Visser at the Department of African Languages at Stellenbosch 肆客足球. Focus areas of her research and postgraduate supervision projects in formal African linguistics, include the nature of phonologically empty categories, in morphosyntax, the causative/anti-causative distinction in argument alternation constructions, and definiteness and specificity in Determiner Phrase ( DP ) syntax of African languages, relating in particular to phenomena concerning the (non-) occurrence of the noun pre-prefix, and specificity-denoting element in the inflectional morphology of various nominal modifiers in the DP. In addition, her work in the latter area also explored the syntax-information structure interface.

Marianna’s teaching, research and postgraduate supervision projects in applied linguistic areas include three distinct areas. Her work in second language teaching and learning, which focuses on syntactic and cognitive complexity of task design in task-based syllabus design, assumes a Task-based approach. Her work in academic literacy development, focuses on the discourse -rhetorical structure and lexico-grammatical properties of academic texts in African languages in especially secondary school education, within a systemic functional linguistics approach. Her work in the field of political and media discourse analysis assumes the framework of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation.

Dr Zameka Sijadu

Lecturer

Qualifications: PhD
sijadu@sun.ac.za
+27 21 808 2200
 ResearchGate Profile?
 Curriculum Vitae

Dr Sijadu’s areas of specialisation includes pragma-dialectical theory in political discourse, humour in socio-political discourse, multilingualism, translation, and appraisal theory. After completing her PhD in 2018 she has worked in several research projects including publishing an article in 2020, “Metaphors as strategic manoeuvring in isiXhosa traditional argumentative political discourse” in 2021. She has further co-authored a Covid-related article in 2022 Politics of Language in COVID-19: Multilingual Perspectives from South Africa, which investigates the political discourse of official COVID-19 addresses by South African national government ministers with a focus on language practices and linguistic choices. Her next research project is also a Covid-related book chapter on South Africa Laughs at 肆客足球: A functional perspective on humour in social media, to be published in 2022. This study explores the functional dimensions of humour in response to governmental speeches on social media during the 2020 肆客足球 lockdown in South Africa. Dr Sijadu has served as an external examiner in various South African Universities and has reviewed articles in accredited journals and book chapters. Dr Sijadu is currently serving as chair of Social Impact Committee for the Faculty of Arts Stellenbosch 肆客足球. 

Dr Sijadu is involved in teaching Communication and Discourse Analysis both at under-graduate and post-graduate honours and masters students. 

Research awards: 

1. Building Capacity for Early Career Humanities Scholars (BECHS-Africa) 2022
   
2. Intra-ACP TRECCAFRICA 11 (2019)
   
3. Early Career Academic Development (ECAD) Programme (2017)
   
4. Cetra Summer School in Belgium (2016)?
   

Mrs B.N. Moropana

Lecturer

Qualifications: MA (African Languages) Stellenbosch 肆客足球
bnm@sun.ac.za
+27 21 808 9200?
 ResearchGate Profile?
 Curriculum Vitae

I started working as a lecturer in the department of African Languages in December 2020. I’m teaching Xhosa communication skills, literature and culture to undergraduates’ students who are mother tongue and non-mother tongue speakers. 

During my spare time I like to read novels and drama books and listen to Gospel music. I would like to complete my PHD studies and be one of the best researchers in my department. 

Areas of Specialization

I specialize in translation and editing, Annual Reports, Annual Performance Plans, and minutes from English into isiXhosa.

Current & Recent Research Projects

Currently busy reading on Appraisal Theory by RPR White in preparation for my PHD studies focusing on Media studies (Hard News). ????

Mr TA Simayile

Lecturer

Qualifications: MA Stellenbosch 肆客足球
simayile@sun.ac.za
+27 21 3842
 Curriculum Vitae?

Thulani Simayile is a lecturer in the Department of African Languages. Thulani’s teaching areas include Basic Xhosa communication skills for first years’ non-isiXhosa language speakers, literature, and culture. His research interest is within the language learning and teaching, in particular genre-based pedagogy underpinning systemic functional linguistic (SFL). The main focus of his research is based on literacy and language teaching, reading and text-linguistic analysis, writing and genre analysis. He is currently working on his PhD, which explorers “Genre-based language teaching in Senior Phase isiXhosa Home Language to advance bilingual literacy across the curriculum.”?