Helena Zybrands  presented a paper on her research. She investigated the use of complex adaptive systems theory in the field of applied linguistics. Her particular interest is academic writing development,…

Grade 12 results are seemingly no longer adequate to the task of predicting achievement at tertiary education institutions, particularly in the case of students who come from previously disadvantaged schools…

At the Language Centre’s Unit for Document Design, we create professional communication. Not only do we write to inspire, inform or instruct but also to persuade and to motivate. And…

We could have used this article to boast about our astonishing statistics, but we decided a spot of nostalgia would be more in order, as we find ourselves celebrating two…

Most of what I know about writing, I’ve learned through running every day. Haruki Murakami The Language Centre is ten years old this year and the Writing Lab decided to…

The Unit for isiXhosa has a twofold function of advancing Xhosa by means of terminology development and offering basic language-acquisition courses to students, university staff and private individuals. To date,…

As part of our ten-year celebrations, the Language Centre’s own “Amazing Race” was organised by the Unit for Afrikaans and English and approximately 50 of its students, mainly from the…

South Africa is a challenging place. Our Constitution is a dream: equity; democracy; diversity. Our reality is nightmarish: inequality; sectorial dominance; increasing monolingualisation. How do we bridge this gap? How…

This article is taken from our newsletter, Dialogos, and some parts may therefore be in Afrikaans. You can click on Dialogos in the list of categories to your right to…