LSSA Conference 2007 (Potchefstroom)
Venue
The joint conference of the Linguistic Society of South Africa, the South African Applied Linguistics Association and the South African Association of Language Teaching was held at North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
Dates
Pre-conference workshops: 2-3 July;
Conference: 4-6 July;
Machine Translation Workshop: 5 July.
Programme and Abstract
The programme and abstract book have been compiled as one large pdf.
Note:the size of this document is large and will take some time to download.
Journals in which the publications will be/are from conference
Please note that the proceedings are not published. You are encouraged to submit your paper after the conference to one of the relevant journals such as:
Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies and The Journal for Language Teaching
Workshops
2nd July: Susan Coetzee-Van Rooy on writing a conference paper.
3rd July: Paul Foulkes, Ghada Kattab & Raj Mesthrie: Sociophonetic essentials for dialectology in South Africa (Workshop presented in English)
3rd July: Christiane Nord: What's the purpose? Identifying communicative functions in pre-translational text analysis (Workshop presented in English)
5th July: Machine Translation in South Africa and beyond, with a paper by Walter Daelemans
6th July: Estelle Kruger: Die virtuele Afrikaans-klaskamer vir ‘millennial kids’.
Keynote Speakers
Programme committee
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Leon de Stadler (University of Stellenbosch)
Paul Foulkes (University of York, U.K.)
Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan, U.S.A.)
Albert Weideman (University of Pretoria)Lande Botha
Wannie Carstens
Susan Coetzee-Van Rooy
Themba Ngwenya
Nhlanhla Thwala
Gerhard van Huyssteen
Bertus van Rooy
Albert Weideman
Organising committee
Sabrina Raaff
Bertus van Rooy