PROGRAMME

MONDAY, 8 JULY

MORNING
08.00 – 08.15	Coffee & Registration	Hexagon Foyer
		Plenary Session - Hexagon Theatre Chair: R.Wildsmith-Cromarty
08.15 - 08.45	Welcome	DVC-UN: Prof A Kaniki
	Welcome	LSSA & SAALA Executive
08.45 – 09.30	OpeningInteractive Panel Discussion
09.30 – 10.20		R Hasan; E Williams; P. Watson Shariff; D.Young; E.Ramani
10.20 – 10.30	Announcements	A.Weideman
	Housekeeping	Conference Convenor: F.Jackson
10.30 – 10.55	TEA
11.00 – 11.55	Poster Sessions	Hexagon Theatre & NAB Foyer
		Presenters: Conduah A: Introducing an African language as MOI Dixon K: Literacy, power & embodied subjects Joseph M & Ramani E: Turning non-readers into book lovers Kruger Z: Policing activities and assessment procedures in Afrikaans Pretorius E:The Family Literacy Project Riener I:Ways of working critically with writing Watkinson J: Interaction and the development of scientific literacy Wildsmith R: The acquisition of language & literacy
12.00 – 12.50		Keynote Address (LSSA) W.Botha, (Linguistics, PTA)
13.00 – 13.50	LUNCH	Hexagon
AFTERNOON	Parallel Sessions	(40 MINS)– New Arts Building

TIME	NAB	NAB Literacies	NAB	NAB
	Language in Education Chair:Rasana	Chair:Prinsloo	Language Learning & LT Chair:Weidema	Language in Society Chair:Shariff
14.00–14.40	Shariff & Riener: Getting wired for the information age	Pluddemann: Literacy, orality & assessment	Pretorius & Nkwe: I don’t understand this story ma’am	De Klerk & Barkhuizen: English in the prison services
14.45–15.25	Joseph & Ramani: Accessing mainstream assignments through foundation assignments	Suzman & Malan: Beyond the oral tradition	Kilpert: Using systemic functional grammar in teaching	Yates: Descriptive Internet linguistics
15.30–16.10	Probyn: Language & science teaching	Davis & Reed: Assessing multimodal texts	Suzman & Jordaan:Effects of English Education on home Language Competence	De Kadt & Busayo: Finding `space’ in South Africa

TIME	NAB	NAB Literacies
	Syntax Chair:Kasanga	Afrikaans Linguistics Chair:Pienaar
14.00-14.40	Twala: The predicate projection in SiSwati	Jenkinson: Taal in beweging:metalinguistiese manipulasie?
14.45-15.25	Simango: Is the remote past in Bantu a myth?	Van Niekerk: Morfologiese produktiwiteit:operasionele parameters
15.30-16.10	Mathonsi: Stem & Root problem revisited	Van der Merwe: n’ Etimologiese perspektief op semantiese veranderinge in die Afrikaanse leksikon
16.15–16.40			TEA
HEXAGON FOYER
Time	NAB Lang in Ed Chair:Ramani	NAB Literacies Chair:Davis	NAB Lang learning & teaching Chair:Kilpert	NAB Lang in Society Chair:De Klerk
16.45–17.25	Winberg: The role of situated learning in acquiring academic discourse	Bangeni:The literacy orientation of rural Xhosa learners	Fotheringham: How communicative do teachers want `communicative'	Mchunu: Sources of asynchrony between different sociolinguistic groups in SA
17.30–18.10	Moyo:English for Specific Purposes		Sarinjeive: Teaching English in the post-modern coca-cola age	Balfour: Is English a failed lingua franca?
NAB Syntax Chair:Mathonsi
16.45–17.25		Sabel & Keller: Asymmetries in wh-question formation in Southern Bantu
17.30–18.10		Jones: Afrikaans word order: a performance-based account

18.15 – 20.00 COCKTAIL PARTY!! HEXAGON FOYER

TUESDAY, 9 JULY

MORNING
08.00 – 08.15	Coffee & Registration	Hexagon Foyer
Plenary Session – Hexagon Theatre - Chair: M.Hart
08.15 – 08.30	Announcements
08.30 –09.20	Keynote Address	Prof. Ruqaiya Hasan, Macquarie Univ
09.30 – 10.30	AGM (SAALA & LSSA) – venues to be announced
10.30 – 10.55	TEA	Hexagon Foyer
Parallel Sessions - (25 Mins)– New Arts Building

Time NAB1
Lang in Ed
Chair:Joseph NAB2
Literacies
Chair:Pluddema NAB3
Language learning & teaching
Chair:Kamuang NAB4
Language & Discourse
Chair: McCormick

11.00–11.25 Rasana: Learners’ reading preferences Prinsloo:children literacy is/as child’s play Chidi: In the hurly-burly of the language classroom Meyer: An investigation into the discourses of theology students

11.30–11.55 Young & Abrahams: Some words on word sums & concept literacy Mchazime & Mtambo: Making Literacy development meaningful in Malawai Cooper & Van Dyk: Measuring vocabulary Van Pletzen: Developing critical discourses

12.00–12.25
Kamuangu:
Teaching writing in three secondary schools
Banda: Literacy mediation as cross-cultural brokerage Adams: Students’ daily struggle to survive in an unfamiliar language Joosten:Report writing as surveillance

12.30–12.55 Postma: Mother tongue, other tongue? McKenna: Changing discourses of academic literacy at Technikon Natal Weideman:Resistance to change in language teaching Hunt: The beginning of female friendship

Time NAB Phonology Chair:Gxilishe NAB - Applied Sociolinguistic Chair:Pienaar

11.00–11.25 Ploch: On the purposes of phonological phenomena Moodley & Kamwangamalu:Code switching as a technique in teaching literature

11.30–11.55 Donnelly: Very relativised locality: Extended toneless gaps inside phuthi H domains Kasanga:The language of questionnaires:semantic appropriateness and the issue of validity

12.00–12.25 Naude: The consonantal root in semitic languages Schafer & Van Rooy: Evaluation of part of speech taggers for L2 English data

12.30–12.55 Van Rooy & Butler: The perception of English phonemic contrasts by first and second language speakers in SA

13.00–13.50 LUNCH HEXAGON FOYER

AFTERNOON Parallel Sessions (25 Mins)– New Arts Building

Time NAB
Language learning & teaching
Chair:Ridge NAB
Language Policy
Chair:Coetzee-van Rooy
NAB
Lang in Ed
Chair:Rodseth

NAB
Sociolinguistic
Chair:DeKadt

14.00-14.25 Vuyokazi: Parents and teachers perceptions of the use of isiXhosa Young & Mbatha:Teaching & Learning with two tongues Bruynse: School TV Desai: Revival of Indian languages at tertiary level?

14.30–14.55 Narismulu: Reviewing curriculum development & research in language & gender Moyo: Perspectives for a SADC language policy Moletsane: Selective error correction Barnes: An overview of language shift in SA

15.00–15.25 Land: Mkhize: a local hero Chebanne: Language policy & ethnicity in Botswana Sprackett: Bridging the gap Botha & Naude: An instrument for the quality assessment of local government transitions

15.30–15.50 Fumba: Development of a language policy at a SA secondary school Tumelotle:Language preferences of primary school teachers Jackson: Effective writing for commerce Gxilishe: Order of emergence of click consonants amongst Xhosa-speaking children

16.15–16.40 TEA HEXAGON FOYER

19.00 – 22.00 CONFERENCE DINNER PETRIE HOUSE

WEDNESDAY, 10 JULY

MORNING

08.00 – 08.15 Coffee & Registration Hexagon Foyer

08.15 – 08.30
Announcements

Plenary Session – Hexagon Theatre - Chair: R.Mesthrie

08.30 –09.20 Keynote Address
Eddie Williams, Reading

09-30 – 10.00 Poster Presentations & Book Launches Hexagon Foyer

10.00 – 10.25 TEA Hexagon Foyer

Parallel Sessions (40 MINS)– New Arts Building

Time	NAB Language Policy Chair: Conduah	NA Lang in Ed Chair:Riener	NAB Translation Chair:VDBerg
10.30–11.10	Coetzee-Van Rooy: The Language Issue & Transformation	Rodseth: The Home Language Project	Mwepu: Am I in control?
11.15-11.55	Alant: The debate about Afrikaans	Mankowski: Group work as divisive or co-operative learning?	Van der Berg: Linguistics & Translating
12.00–12.40	Van der Walt & Groenewald: Contributing to the achievement of higher education goals	Ridge: Old wine in new bottles?	Mabule & Mabule: The taboos attached to the translation of natural sciences
	NAB Sociolinguistics Chair:Watson	NAB Afrikaans Linguistics Chair:Jenkinson	NAB Interpreting Chair:Mwepu
10.30–11.10	Mesthrie: Fanakalo: an upside down pidgin?	Van Niekerk: Sportskommentaar – sintaktiese aspekte van registrevariasie	Wallmach: Professional interpreting in SA: the gap between theory and practice
11.15–11.55	McCormick: Now you see it, now you don’t: perceptions of language difference in Cape Town’s District Six	Pienaar: Kan die kognitiewe linguistiek n’ bydrae lewer tot vertaal teorie?	Spofana:Whose language is it anyway
12.00–12.40	Du Plessis: Die taal politiek van die Vyrstaatse regering – die nommerplaatkwessie	De Jager: Die jeugmisdadiger se dialek: n’ sosiolinguistiese perspektief binne die forensiese linguistiek
12.40–13.00	PLENARY SESSION:	SUMMARY & CLOSURE

13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH HEXAGON FOYER

Time	NAB1 Lang in Ed Chair:Joseph	NAB2 Literacies Chair:Pluddema	NAB3 Language learning & teaching Chair:Kamuang	NAB4 Language & Discourse Chair: McCormick
11.00–11.25	Rasana: Learners’ reading preferences	Prinsloo:children literacy is/as child’s play	Chidi: In the hurly-burly of the language classroom	Meyer: An investigation into the discourses of theology students
11.30–11.55	Young & Abrahams: Some words on word sums & concept literacy	Mchazime & Mtambo: Making Literacy development meaningful in Malawai	Cooper & Van Dyk: Measuring vocabulary	Van Pletzen: Developing critical discourses
12.00–12.25	Kamuangu: Teaching writing in three secondary schools	Banda: Literacy mediation as cross-cultural brokerage	Adams: Students’ daily struggle to survive in an unfamiliar language	Joosten:Report writing as surveillance
12.30–12.55	Postma: Mother tongue, other tongue?	McKenna: Changing discourses of academic literacy at Technikon Natal	Weideman:Resistance to change in language teaching	Hunt: The beginning of female friendship

Time	NAB Phonology Chair:Gxilishe		NAB - Applied Sociolinguistic Chair:Pienaar
11.00–11.25	Ploch: On the purposes of phonological phenomena		Moodley & Kamwangamalu:Code switching as a technique in teaching literature
11.30–11.55	Donnelly: Very relativised locality: Extended toneless gaps inside phuthi H domains		Kasanga:The language of questionnaires:semantic appropriateness and the issue of validity
12.00–12.25	Naude: The consonantal root in semitic languages		Schafer & Van Rooy: Evaluation of part of speech taggers for L2 English data
12.30–12.55	Van Rooy & Butler: The perception of English phonemic contrasts by first and second language speakers in SA
13.00–13.50	LUNCH		HEXAGON FOYER
AFTERNOON Parallel Sessions (25 Mins)– New Arts Building
Time	NAB Language learning & teaching Chair:Ridge	NAB Language Policy Chair:Coetzee-van Rooy	NAB Lang in Ed Chair:Rodseth	NAB Sociolinguistic Chair:DeKadt
14.00-14.25	Vuyokazi: Parents and teachers perceptions of the use of isiXhosa	Young & Mbatha:Teaching & Learning with two tongues	Bruynse: School TV	Desai: Revival of Indian languages at tertiary level?
14.30–14.55	Narismulu: Reviewing curriculum development & research in language & gender	Moyo: Perspectives for a SADC language policy	Moletsane: Selective error correction	Barnes: An overview of language shift in SA
15.00–15.25	Land: Mkhize: a local hero	Chebanne: Language policy & ethnicity in Botswana	Sprackett: Bridging the gap	Botha & Naude: An instrument for the quality assessment of local government transitions
15.30–15.50	Fumba: Development of a language policy at a SA secondary school	Tumelotle:Language preferences of primary school teachers	Jackson: Effective writing for commerce	Gxilishe: Order of emergence of click consonants amongst Xhosa-speaking children
16.15–16.40	TEA		HEXAGON FOYER

MORNING
08.00 – 08.15	Coffee & Registration	Hexagon Foyer
08.15 – 08.30	Announcements
Plenary Session – Hexagon Theatre - Chair: R.Mesthrie
08.30 –09.20	Keynote Address	Eddie Williams, Reading
09-30 – 10.00	Poster Presentations & Book Launches	Hexagon Foyer
10.00 – 10.25	TEA	Hexagon Foyer
Parallel Sessions (40 MINS)– New Arts Building