Professor Frenette Southwood
Acting Heard of Department
Qualifications: PhD
fs@sun.ac.za
+27 21 808 2010
Short biography:
Highest Qualifications
PhD (Radboud University Nijmegen)entitled “Specific language impairment in Afrikaans: Providing a Minimalist account for problems with grammatical features and word order".
Fields of academic expertise
Child language, language impairment
Current research project(s) as at December 2021
Early childhood language development and family socialisation in three South African language communities Towards a dialect-neutral evaluation instrument for the language skills of South
African English and Afrikaans-speaking children Linguistically fair and culturally relevant early child language assessment:
Developing the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventory in seven South African languages
Recent completed research projects
Receptive and expressive activities for language therapy
Recent Publications
Simonsen, H.D.G. & Southwood, F. 2021. Child language assessment across different multilingual contexts: Insights and challenges from South and North. In: U. Røyneland
& R. Blackwood. Multilingualism across the Lifespan. New York: Routledge.
Southwood, F., & White, M.J. 2021. The elicited production of part/whole and general/specific articles by 4- to 9-year-old Afrikaans-speaking and South African English-speaking children. Language Matters. https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2020.1825514
Southwood, F., White, M.J., Brookes, H., Pascoe, M., Ndhambi, M., Yalala, S., Mahura, O.,
Mössmer, M., Oosthuizen, H., Brink, N., & Alcock, K. 2021. Sociocultural factors
affecting vocabulary development in young South African children. Frontiers in Psychology 12: 1645. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.642315
Southwood, F. & de la Marque Van Heukelum, M.L. 2020. Intercultural communicative
competence is essential for students of international business – but can it be taught?
The case of third-year BCom students. South African Journal of Higher Education
34(3): 297–318.
Southwood, F., & White, M.J. 2020. Fast mapping of Verbs in Afrikaans-speaking children
from low and mid socioeconomic backgrounds and children with language impairment. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2020.1839968
Southwood, F., Oosthuizen, H. & the Southern African CDI team. 2020. Afrikaanse
taalvariasie: Uitdagings vir regverdige meting van jong kinders se taal. SPiL PLUS 59:
81–104.
Oosthuizen, H. & Southwood, F. 2019. South Africa. In Law, J., McKean, C., Murphy, C.-A.,
& Thordardottir, E. (Eds.) Managing children with developmental language disorder:
Theory and practice across Europe and beyond. Oxon: Routledge. pp. 441–450.
Ssentanda, M.E., Huddlestone, K. & Southwood, F. 2019. “800 words in three years":
Curricula expectations versus teachers' opinions and practices in teaching English in
rural primary schools in Uganda. Language Matters 50(2): 141–163.
Haman, E., M. Łuniewska, P. Hansen, H.G. Simonsen, S. Chiat, J. Bjekić, A. Blažienė, K.
Chyl, I. Dabašinskienė, P. Engel de Abreu, N. Gagarina, A. Gavarró, G. Håkansson, E.
Harel, E. Holm, S. Kapalková, S. Kunnari, C. Levorato, J. Lindgren, K. Mieszkowska, L.
Montes Salarich, A. Potgieter, I. Ribu, N. Ringblom, T. Rinker, M. Roch, D. Slančová, F.
Southwood, R. Tedeschi, A. Müge Tuncer, Ö. Ünal-Logacev, J. Vuksanović & S.
Armon-Lotem. 2017. Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children
across 17 languages: Data from cross-linguistic lexical tasks (LITMUS-CLT). Clinical
Linguistics & Phonetics 31(11–12): 818–843
Recent MA supervision
T. Beyers. 2021. Scents and sensitivity: The emotional valence and flexibility of
Afrikaans taste and smell adjectives.
T. Collington-O'Malley. 2021. 'What's in a name?': Political correctness,
euphemism, and the impact of name-words on thought.
L. Schütz. In progress. The foreign language effect in a southern African context.
Current PhD supervision (as at December 2021)
M. Kajombo. Communicating cultural taboo and women's bodies: A
sociolinguistic study of speech codes in gynaecological consultations in Blantyre,
Malawi (Co-supervisor).
A. Nozewu. Investigating the language practices and literacy practices of isiXhosa
families in Western Cape homes: An ethnographic approach (Co-supervisor).
Recent completed PhD supervision
M. White. 2018. Processes underlying language development and rate of English language acquisition, with specific reference to ELLs in a multilingual South African Grade R classroom.
S. Nahayo. 2017. Construction of linguistic identities among cross-border
communities: The case of Samia of Uganda and Samia of Kenya (Co-supervisor).
J. Nel. 2015. The comprehension and production of later developing language
constructions by Afrikaans-, English- and isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners.
Prof Mawande Dlali
Associate Professor
Qualifications: PhD
mdl@sun.ac.za
+27 21 808 2014
ResearchGate Profile
Curriculum Vitae
Prof Mawande Dlali is the Associate Professor and Head of Department of African languages at Stellenbosch University. He has vast experience of University teaching and research on African languages and Linguistics and has published high quality journal articles and chapters in books. His main interest is Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, political discourse and Interpersonal communication. He is also preoccupied with the description and documentation of highly endangered languages. His central concern is to investigate the circumstances and processes of language endangerment and marginalisation.
Prof Dlali holds a PhD degree from SU and is a member of several editorial boards and academic associations. He has also been involved in many national projects aimed at promoting national languages.
