Meryl’s TEFL adventure
Meryl Davidson completed her TEFL course with the English portfolio at the SU Language Centre and then went on to teach English in South Korea for two years. Meryl’s TEFL…
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Book chat with Susan L
Get to know us through the books we read! This month we chat to Susan Lotz. She is a language practitioner and content coordinator at the Language Centre. “Among other…
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Meet our English teachers!
Meet our English portfolio! Our teachers are all experts in teaching English as a second language and thrive in seeing their students reach new limits. The English portfolio aims to…
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Africa Day 2023: Our Africa, our future
The practice of interpreting from one language to another on the African continent, as elsewhere, goes back thousands of years. In many African societies, the professional linguists or praise singers belonged to a long line of gifted multilingual orators …
So many kinds of freedom
“I never even knew that such a kind of personal freedom existed, because I had never experienced it before.” In celebration of Freedom Day on 27 April, a Belgian exchange students shares her thoughts on freedom with us, originally in Afrikaans, but translated into English below.
Resources for advancing a multilingual mindset in SU environments
The Language Centre’s mandate to the University is to promote multilingualism and provide language support. We therefore strive to embody a multilingual mindset and to share this mindset with the…
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Book chat with Juanli T
Get to know us through the books we read! This month we chat to Juanli Theron, head of the Interpreting Service of the Language Centre. The Interpreting Service delivers real-time…
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Mother language, heart language
Mother Language Day: A day dedicated to the language in which our very first thoughts were verbalised – that’s a world we can believe in. We’re so different, but this…
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Reading for all levels of English with Carmen 3
You’ve been transported to Carmen’s book corner! Hi there, bookworms! I am back with another instalment of my ESL book recommendations. It is the month of love and this month…
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Guide for lecturers: Introduction to real-time online interpreting
Calling all lecturers: This short video explains how you can easily use real-time online interpreting. Follow this step-by-step guide for an MS Teams set-up.
