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22 November 2023 | Story EDZANI NEPHALELA

The Academy for Multilingualism invites papers for the upcoming Third International Translanguaging Symposium in the Global South from 26 to 28 March 2024. 

This symposium in the Global South aims to provide a space for international, continental, and national scholars, academics, practitioners, researchers, and postgraduate students with a kin interest in translanguaging to share their high-quality research and reflect on the critique, contradictions, challenges, complexities, and opportunities proffered by translanguaging. 

The symposium seeks to disrupt the characterisation of the periphery within the university space through the following sub-themes:

  • Translanguaging and Social Justice
  • Translanguaging and Teaching Learning
  • Translanguaging and Ubuntu Translanguaging Pedagogies
  • Translanguaging and Decoloniality
  • Translanguaging and Language Policy
  • Translanguaging and Globalisation
  • Translanguaging and Multilingualism
  • Translanguaging and Educational Equity, Access, and Success
  • Translanguaging and Literacy in Education
  • Translanguaging and Curriculum
  • Translanguaging and Assessment

Please submit an abstract of 250-300 words by 31 December 2023 to AfM@ufs.ac.za; the registration fee is R1 500. 

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Computer lab on UFS Qwaqwa campus in operation
2007-05-18

The new computer laboratory at the University of the Free State’s (UFS) Qwaqwa Campus has started operating. The laboratory, equipped with 57 computers, is accessible to both the staff and the students of the UFS. The Dell Foundation donated the computers to the university in March this year. Pictured in the laboratory are, from the left front: Ms Monica Snymes (Laboratory Assistant), and Mr Teboho Miya (Laboratory Assistant); back: Mr Motlalepule Motloung (Laboratory Assistant), Mr Isaac Moeketsane (Laboratory Assistant) and Mr Patrick Tobias (Laboratory Supervisor). The student working on the computer is Mr Vusumuzi Maphalala.
Photo: Supplied
 

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