Book chat with Jackie vW
Get to know us through the books we read! This month we chat to Jackie van Wyk, an educational interpreter at the Language Centre’s Interpreting Service. “I studied languages at…
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Book chat with Anne-Mari L
Get to know us through the books we read! This month we chat to Anne-Mari Lackay of the Writing Lab. Anne-Mari has been working at the Writing Lab since 2001,…
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Book chat with Eduard dK
Get to know us through the books we read! This month we chat to Eduard de Kock, a senior interpreter at the Language Centre’s Interpreting Service and presenter of the…
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Book chat with Elzette W
Get to know us through the books we read! This month we chat to Elzette Wickens, a language practitioner at the Language Service of the Language Centre. “I edit and…
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Book chat with Selene D
Get to know us through the books we read! This month we chat to Selene Delport, coordinator of writing skills workshops for postgrad students at the Writing Lab. Selene joined…
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Mother Language Day 2022: Let’s look beyond our own language
We celebrate International Mother Language Day on 21 February each year. It is appropriate to take time on that day to celebrate that first language; the one that allowed…
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What’s happening on the research front at the Language Centre?
Here are some of our research interests at the Language Centre. Feel free to get in touch with our researchers to learn more about our latest research.
Book chat with Rose R
Get to know us through the books we read! This month we chat to Rose Richards, head of the Writing Lab and the Language Centre’s Research portfolio. Rose says she…
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Book review by Marisca C
Get to know us through the books we read! We kick off the new year with a book review interview with Marisca Coetzee, an academic literacies lecturer who also coordinates…
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Book chat with Risha L
This month we chat to Risha Lötter, an educational interpreter who also has her own podcast and blog. Risha says she reads indiscriminately, but has a special passion for stuffy British whodunits, and she daydreams of one day writing an Agatha Christie homage detective novel.
