The Department of Dutch and South African Studies announces a series of guest lectures, to be delivered in Afrikaans and English, by Dr Joanine Nel (University of Pretoria).
The third lecture in the series is: The language policy in South African schools and literacy in South Africa (Die taalbeleid in Suid-Afrikaanse skole en geletterdheid in Suid-Afrika)
Date: 19 March 2024
Time: 13:15
Room: 208, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki
About the speaker:
Dr Joanine Nel is a Lecturer of Afrikaans and Applied Linguistics at the University of Pretoria. Dr Nel has a keen interest in language and how language use affects people's lives; be it in terms of research areas including socio- and psycholinguistics, morphology and syntax and how language plays a role in academic literacy. Interests include first and second language acquisition in children and adults and multilingualism in society and the classroom.