Research Archives - Stellenbosch University Language Centre

English language specialist to visit the Intensive English portfolio next year

7 November 2022

Academic and professional literacies, English courses, Our languages, Recent news, Research

The Language Centre will be visited by an English language specialist from America in 2023! On Friday 28 October, two staff members from the Language Centre (LC), Dr Arné Binneman and…

Book chat with Selene D

3 March 2022

Book chat, Reading Lab, Recent news, Research, Writing Lab

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…

What’s happening on the research front at the Language Centre?

13 February 2022

Life is language, Recent news, Research

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

3 February 2022

Book chat, Reading Lab, Recent news, Research, Writing Lab

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…

Writing centres as decolonising spaces

18 November 2021

Academic and professional literacies, Recent news, Research, Writing Lab

On 4 October, the head of the SU Writing Lab, Rose Richards, attended an online colloquium about decolonisation in South African writing centres. She shares her thoughts about the colloquium…

Writing lab honours retired co-founder

4 March 2020

Dialogos, Recent news, Research, Writing Lab

Sharifa Daniels, one of the founding staff members of the Writing Lab of the Language Centre, retired in 2018, after nearly 17 years of service to the writers on campus.…

Welcome to our interpreting world

27 November 2019

Dialogos, Our languages, Recent news, Research

An experiential interpreting workshop – that’s what the research team of the Language Centre’s Interpreting Service came up with this year for the University’s annual Scholarship of Teaching and Learning…

Phakama for academic literacy

27 November 2019

Dialogos, Reading Lab, Recent news, Research

This year, lecturers from the Language Centre, Chemistry and Computer Skills launched a brand new and exciting collaboration project. They joined forces to give extra dimension to the Language Centre’s…

A contemplation of living translation and interpreting on our doorstep

27 November 2019

Dialogos, Our languages, Recent news, Research

In September, one of the biggest triennial events on the global translation studies calendar took place in Stellenbosch: the ninth Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST). The…

A mosaic of experiences at the oldest university in the world

17 September 2019

Dialogos, Our languages, Recent news, Research

Sanet de Jager, a Language Centre interpreter, took part in the University’s mobility project, through which SU students and staff can participate in exchange programmes for international exposure. Sanet spent…