DLTE Teaching-Learning-Assessment Seminar
You are invited to attend the fourth quarterly Teaching-Learning-Assessment seminar of 2024, offered by the Division for Learning and Teaching Enhancement (DLTE):
Speaker: Prof. Mbulungeni Madiba (Dean, Faculty of Education)
Topic: Using translanguaging pedagogy in the multilingual classroom
Date: 24 October 2024
Time: 13:00-14:00
Place: MS Teams: Join the meeting now
Synopsis
South African universities are faced with many dilemmas in implementing multilingualism in their teaching and learning programmes (SAHRC Report, 2014). These dilemmas are of theoretical/ideological, methodological and practical nature. The aim of this presentation is to discuss these dilemmas and show innovative strategies that have been / can be used to address them in South African universities. I will propose translanguaging as an innovative pedagogic strategy to overcome the language policy implementation challenges identified in this presentation. I will argue that translanguaging not only enables multilingual students to use their full linguistic repertoires in learning but also bridges the gap between university language policies and pedagogical practices.
Biography of speaker
Prof. Mbulungeni Madiba has been Dean of the Faculty of Education at SU since September 2019. He has served as the director of the Multilingual Education Project (MEP) in the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) at UCT. He has been deputy dean and acting dean of the CHED several times, chaired UCT's Senate Language Committee and served on the UCT Council. Prof. Madiba has 30 years of teaching experience and a wealth of experience in leadership and management. A full professor of Multilingual Education, Prof Madiba holds a DLitt et Phil (Linguistics) degree from the University of South Africa (Unisa). He has received research fellowships and study awards from several higher education institutions abroad, including the universities of Cologne, London (Oppenheimer fellow), Birmingham and Harvard (Mandela fellow). As an established researcher with a C-rating from the National Research Foundation, his main research interests are language planning and policy, with a special focus on multilingual education.
References
- Garcia, O. and Kleyn, T. 2016. Translanguaging with multilingual students: Learning from Classroom moments. New York: Routledge.
- Madiba, M. 2018. The Multilingual University. In A. Creese and A. Blackledge (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity. London: Routledge (pp.504-517).
More information about the seminar is available from Dr Karin Cattell-Holden at kcattell@sun.ac.za .
