UCT Language Development Seminar Series
Language, Writing and Identity
In 2009, the Language Development Group hosted an evening seminar series on the theme of Language, Writing and Identity which featured a number of international and local scholars. The programme was as follows:
10 June 2009
Dr Carolyn McKinney , University of Cape Town
“Disrupting ‘asymmetrical relations of knowing ’: pedagogy, discourse and identity in a de(re)segregated girls’ school?”
23 July 2009
Professor John Trimbur, Emerson College, USA.
“The problem of Genre in Writing Theory and Pedagogy”
6 August 2009
Professor Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University , USA.
“Shuttling Between Academic Discourses:Theorizing Multilingual Writing Competence”
21 September 2009
Dr Theresa Lillis, Open University, UK
The Politics of Location in Academic text production
29 October 2009
Ms Bongi Bangeni and Associate Professor Rochelle Kapp, UCT.
"Students negotiation of language, home, institutional and disciplinary discourses in a time of transition".
9 November 2009
Professor Anne Herrington, University of Massachusetts, USA
"Assessment and Accountability for Writing and Learning across Disciplines.”