Dumisile Mkhize
Biographic Data
| ID | 6742786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dumisile Mkhize |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dumisile |
| FAMILY NAME | Mkhize |
| SIGNATURE | MKHIZE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2207-1937 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reconceptualising the notion of cross-linguistic transfer in multilingual spaces
Situating Some Aspects of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in South African Higher Education Within Southern Theories
This paper discusses aspects of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in South African higher education (HE) and locates it within what it calls Southern theories. Three examples of such theories that the paper advances are Southern decolonial theory, decoloniality, and transversality, which it frames from the Global South standpoint. Concerning the first theory, the paper argues that SoTL, both as a notion and as a practice, needs to b…
Translanguaging mediating reading in a multilingual South African township primary classroom
Monolingual oriented practices that largely dominated reading instruction in most multilingual African contexts in the twentieth century are increasingly being challenged in this century. Despite this, there remains a dearth of research on the concurrent use of more than one language during reading instruction in these contexts. In this qualitative study, we examined the reading practices of multilingual learners and one teacher in isiZulu and En…
‘The palm-oil with which Igbo words are eaten’
The aim of this article is to investigate the way in which idioms in Things Fall Apart by Achebe (1958), have been translated into Zulu in Kwafa Gula Linamasi by Msimang (1995). The researcher specifically examines Igbo culture as portrayed by idioms and the depiction of some characters through idioms in the translation. This is accomplished by conducting a descriptive comparative analysis of Msimang's translation strategies. The analysis shows t…
Translanguaging mediating reading in a multilingual South African township primary classroom
Monolingual oriented practices that largely dominated reading instruction in most multilingual African contexts in the twentieth century are increasingly being challenged in this century. Despite this, there remains a dearth of research on the concurrent use of more than one language during reading instruction in these contexts. In this qualitative study, we examined the reading practices of multilingual learners and one teacher in isiZulu and En…
‘The palm-oil with which Igbo words are eaten’
The aim of this article is to investigate the way in which idioms in Things Fall Apart by Achebe (1958), have been translated into Zulu in Kwafa Gula Linamasi by Msimang (1995). The researcher specifically examines Igbo culture as portrayed by idioms and the depiction of some characters through idioms in the translation. This is accomplished by conducting a descriptive comparative analysis of Msimang's translation strategies. The analysis shows t…
Translanguaging mediating reading in a multilingual South African township primary classroom
Monolingual oriented practices that largely dominated reading instruction in most multilingual African contexts in the twentieth century are increasingly being challenged in this century. Despite this, there remains a dearth of research on the concurrent use of more than one language during reading instruction in these contexts. In this qualitative study, we examined the reading practices of multilingual learners and one teacher in isiZulu and En…
Situating Some Aspects of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in South African Higher Education Within Southern Theories
This paper discusses aspects of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in South African higher education (HE) and locates it within what it calls Southern theories. Three examples of such theories that the paper advances are Southern decolonial theory, decoloniality, and transversality, which it frames from the Global South standpoint. Concerning the first theory, the paper argues that SoTL, both as a notion and as a practice, needs to b…
Reconceptualising the notion of cross-linguistic transfer in multilingual spaces
Linguistics (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (2 works) · Multilingualism (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (2 works)