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UCT RESEARCH REPORT 2012
De Kok, I. 2012. One poem in
The Times Literary Supplement
5718, November 2012. The poem is ‘Dyad’ (p11).
De Kok, I. 2012. One poem in
The Poetry Paper
, 9, 2012.
(Suffolk, UK). The poem is ‘Found Names’ (p13).
Dean’s Office
Profile
Apart from its central leadership, management and
administrative role in CHED, the Dean’s Office houses
special projects, including the Multilingualism Education
Project, headed by Associate Professor Mbulungeni
Madiba, the OpenUCT Initiative (OUI) under the
directorship of Associate Professor Laura Czerniewicz,
the Confucius Institute, and student fellowship and
scholarship programmes that comprise the Equity
Development Programme.
Office Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Associate Professors
3
Total
3
Research Fields and Staff
Associate Professor Nan Yeld
Admissions; educational measurement; academic literacy;
higher education policy.
Associate Professor Mbulungeni Madiba
Language policy and planning; sociolinguistics; terminology
and terminography; corpus linguistics, human language
technology, concept literacy, language acquisition, politics
of language; phonology.
Associate Professor Laura Czerniewicz
Educational technology in higher education; academics’
and students’ digitally mediated scholarship and
educational practices; scholarly communication.
Ms Nolubabalo Tyam
Second language acquisition; second language teaching;
intercultural communication; code-switching.
Contact Details
Tel: +27 21 650 4158
Fax: +27 21 650 5045
E-mail: nan.yeld@uct.ac.za
Web: http://www.ched.uct.ac.za
Research output
Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals
Madiba, M.R. 2012. Language and academic achievement:
perspectives on the potential role of indigenous African
languages as a lingua academica. Per Linguam: A Journal
of Language Learning, 28(2): 13-25.