Mbulungeni Madiba

Biographic Data

ID6723995
NAMEMbulungeni Madiba
GIVEN NAMESMbulungeni
FAMILY NAMEMadiba
SIGNATUREMADIBA M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of South Africa
ORCID0000-0002-1862-9224
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Critical perspectives on teaching in the multilingual university

    Ibrar Bhatt, Khawla Badwan et al.ARTICLETeaching in Higher Education2022

    Globalisation, for which language is a pivotal instrument, is defined by Giddens (1990) as the ‘intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities’ (64). Though it is a contested terrain, of globalisations – from above and from below (Torres 2009), there are both negative and positive effects on any society. The globalisation of higher education has elevated the international status of colonial languages, such as English,…

  • An evaluation of the implementation of the new Language-in-Education Policy (LiEP) in selected secondary schools of Limpopo Province

    Mbulungeni Madiba, Matome Mabiletja et al.ARTICLELanguage Matters2008

    Language policy implementation evaluation constitutes an important component of language planning. The implementation of any language policy needs to be preceded or accompanied by an evaluation of the contextual factors, that is, factors that have to do with a broad range of physical and discursive complexity. The evaluation of contextual factors is important as'all language planning activities take place in particular sociolinguistic settings, a…

  • Parallel corpora as tools for developing the indigenous languages of South Africa, with special reference to Venda

    Mbulungeni MadibaARTICLELanguage Matters2004

    This article shows how parallel corpora can be used as tools for developing the indigenous languages of South Africa. Parallel corpora provide a strategic means to fast-track the development of modern terminologies, bilingual dictionaries and glossaries for the indigenous African languages. The article focuses on the issue of translation equivalents. The analysis of translation equivalents is based on the English-Venda Parallel Corpus, which is a…

  • The Intellectualisation of the Indigenous Languages of South Africa

    Rosalie Finlayson, Mbulungeni MadibaARTICLECurrent Issues in Language Planning2002Cited by: 5References: 3

    There is growing consensus among language planning scholars that, in developing languages such as those of Africa, there is a need for a deliberate effort to effectuate and accelerate the process of language intellectualisation. Intellectualisation of the African languages should be seen within the context of national development initiatives. This paper examines the situation in South Africa where the government is obliged by the Constitution to …

  • Towards a Model for Terminology Modernisation in the African Languages of South Africa

    Mbulungeni MadibaARTICLELanguage Matters2001

    The lack of modern terminology in the indigenous languages of South Africa for use in domains such as science, technology and commerce raises the need for a model of intervention for the development of these languages. Accordingly, an attempt will be made in this paper to establish a systematic approach to the modernisation of these languages, and to Venda in particular. The paper argues against simply adopting a puristic or a liberal approach to…

  • Multilingualism and Nation-building in the “New” South Africa

    Mbulungeni MadibaARTICLELanguage Matters1999

    South Africa's recent transformation to a democratic society is dubbed by many scholars as miraculous. There is a great interest among political scientists and language planning scholars as to whether South Africa will, despite its divided past which was characterised by racial and ethnic conflicts, emerge as a united nation. One area which has become the main focus of various studies and conferences is the newly adopted policy of official multil…