IsiXhosa language and culture

Name: IsiXhosa language and culture
SKU: 13535
Price: 3781 ZAR
Availability: InStock

R3 781

IsiXhosa Language and Culture is a fun-filled 14-week course offering international students a linguistic and cultural taste of Xhosa as a language in a wider cultural context. This course is for international students with no previous knowledge of isiXhosa and who are registered in the Global Education Programme (GEP). The course aims to teach you about the isiXhosa language and its culture and will enable you to engage in meaningful conversation at beginner level. Through this course you empower yourself to put multilingualism into practice with other South African students.

2023 course dates

13 February – 27 March
10 April – 15 May 2023

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Presenter

Stembele Johnson – Stembele is a young and dynamic isiXhosa language facilitator. She enjoys sharing her love for the isiXhosa language and its culture with her students, and she believes that learning a new language connects people from different cultures and creates a space for people to grow. She enjoys helping her students become part of a broader isiXhosa culture in an encouraging learning and teaching environment.

Location

Stellenbosch University campus

We will focus on the following themes to enhance your ability to communicate in isiXhosa:

Greeting people and making introductions
Asking about someone’s health and feelings
Inviting someone for a drink or something to eat
Ordering something to drink and eat at a restaurant
Making and answering telephone calls
Speaking about the weather
Naming the months and days of the week
Setting up formal and informal appointments
Giving directions on and off campus
Asking for help at a filling station

At the end of the course, you will be able to take part in conversations about the above topics at beginner level.

This course is presented over the course of the semester. Normally we will have face-to-face contact sessions of three hours twice a week, but at the moment those sessions are conducted online. Classes are communicative, interactive and task oriented. We use MS Teams and SUNLearn as platforms for our online activities, and study material is provided.

We love interacting with you to give you the practice you need so that you can become confident in speaking the language. There will be speaking tasks at a beginner level as well as group interaction with the teacher.

You will be assessed continuously in class on the basis of your presence and participation. You will also need to complete formal assessments.

We recommend a computer with internet access and a microphone to participate in the live sessions on MS Teams and to complete the online activities outside of class. You will also need a note pad.

Any international students registered in the Global Education Programme (GEP) who have no previous knowledge of isiXhosa.

For the initial application, you need to contact Stembele Johnson and attend the first meeting, which is scheduled during the welcoming week. See the Global Education Programmes (GEP) offering for more information.

Registration is done through the International Office, but contact Stembele first.

Students who register through the Global Education Programme will receive 12 credits at NQF level 5.

SU International will help you to arrange for accommodation before you leave your home country for South Africa.

The price includes all course material and access to our online learning platforms.

You will not only learn a new language but will also be empowered with multilingual and multicultural skills. You may also find that you can connect better with students and colleagues in basic isiXhosa conversations. In addition, you will be able to start appreciating isiXhosa as a regional language and its position as an official language in South Africa. Become part of the culture in Stellenbosch and South Africa by getting to know one of our indigenous and official languages.