This is a time of c-words. Corona, control, contagion, consequence, confinement, challenge. To counter these, the SU Language Centre’s Language Service would like to offer ‘collaborate’, ‘connect’ and ‘create’. By collaborating with lecturers to edit and translate lecture material such as notes, slides, and other SUNLearn content, we make it easier for you to connect with your students in the language of their choice and create and upload great content.
In any academic discipline, conveying knowledge and comprehending complex ideas are crucial steps in the learning process. The Language Service can help you ensure that your ideas come across clearly by fine-tuning the language of your lecture notes and slides during editing. By leaving the ‘how’ to us, you can focus on what you want to say – with more time and energy to concentrate on creating and uploading engaging content and interacting with your students.
Considering that we work in 15 languages (including Afrikaans, English and isiXhosa), we can also translate your material. In this way your students can learn in the language with which they are most comfortable.
By combining the skills and expertise of our in-house language practitioners and tried-and-tested, qualified external freelancers, we are flexible in tackling assignments and meeting deadlines. Why not contact us?
The Language Centre is a vibrant hub for students, staff and clients who require language and communication assistance.
One of our most important jobs is to help students speak university. Although academic language is no-one’s mother tongue, you could get by very well once you’ve learnt its ins and outs.
We assist students to get there, in many different language-related ways:
We present credit-bearing academic literacies modules in seven of the University’s 10 faculties to equip our students for strategic communication – in an academic setting and in their occupation and industry. Modules focus on professional, business and scientific communication, writing skills and skills for academic discourse.
We provide real-time interpreting in lectures – in Afrikaans, English, isiXhosa or South African Sign Language.
We’ve created a safe space to discuss one’s writing with a trained writing consultant at our Writing Lab, as well as opportunities to create writing support groups, take part in writing marathons, or attend workshops on writing research proposals, literature reviews, journal articles or other academic writing.
We’ve established a Reading Lab that offers workshops, consultations and a visual cognitive processing program to optimise reading.
We’ve built a trilingual terminology tool for subject terminology in Afrikaans, English and isiXhosa – try it out here.
The Language Centre also casts its language and communication assistance net wider than the student community:
We offer an editing and translation service in English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa, and we translate into more than 12 other languages. Our services are available to the University, corporate clients and individuals, and we can edit and translate any document – from letters, reports, journal articles and advertisement copy to informed consent forms. In addition, we do transcriptions.
We provide an interpreting service at meetings or conferences. We work in Afrikaans, English, isiXhosa and German, but you could speak to us about other language combinations too.
We offer language courses aimed at individuals or groups who would like to learn isiXhosa or Afrikaans, or prepare themselves for the International English Language Testing System(IELTS) exam, or who wish to gain the skills to teach English as a foreign language (TEFL).
We also present superbly crafted corporate communication short courses through our Comms Lab. Think: effective office documentation, report writing, writing for the media, or crafting confident presentations, to name but a few possibilities.
For us, language creates a transformational space that has the power to change lives, inform policy and unite people. If one of our services or courses appeals to you, speak to us at taalsentrum@sun.ac.za or 021 808 2176.
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The Language Centre is a vibrant hub for students, staff and clients who require language and communication assistance.