Congratulations to ICELDA intern Marilize Pretorius, who has completed her first MA with distinction. Her dissertation was entitled “The transnational intellectual in contemporary Nigerian literature”. Marilize is currently registered for another master’s study with the Department of Linguistics and Language Practice at the University of the Free State. Her...
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On 6 May Colleen du Plessis will address the Language Policy Forum at Tel Aviv University. The forum brings together academics and language policy experts from the region on a monthly basis to share insights on various issues of a sociolinguistic nature. Colleen will talk on the topic of  “Dealing...
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Anna Pot, MA Applied linguistics student from the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, has just arrived to serve a four-month internship with ICELDA. The internship is a credit-earning component of her course, and the requirement is that it should ideally be done in an organization in which language plays a central role.

Sanet Steyn, former ICELDA bursary holder, NRF-funded intern and now ICELDA research associate, has been awarded the prestigious Erasmus Mundus scholarship. Funded by the European Union, this programme is geared towards meeting regional needs in higher education. Sanet will be enrolling for the highly regarded MA in Applied Linguistics...
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ICELDA welcomes to the ranks of its growing number of researchers and collaborators Marilize Pretorius, who has been appointed an intern with us under an NRF funded initiative. Her mentor, ICELDA’s CEO, Albert Weideman, says: “Marilize joins us as a mature student, with an outstanding academic record. It is...
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