Rochelle Kapp
Rochelle Kapp is an Associate Professor in the Language Development Group. She has taught on a range of undergraduate academic literacy courses, as well as on Honours and Masters’ postgraduate courses in the areas of academic literacy, language education and the politics of English. She has engaged in language-related curriculum development and tutor training in a range of departments. She has also played a key role in language planning and language and student-related policy development at UCT. Her PhD research focussed on classroom discourses in a former DET school. Her more recent research has focussed on academic literacies, language attitudes and practices and identity. Together with Bongi Bangeni, Rochelle has just completed a longitudinal project in which they traced the shifts in language, literacies and identities of 20 undergraduate Humanities’ students.
Rochelle is currently working on a project titled ‘A new generation of university students: an investigation of changes and continuities’. This is a longitudinal project sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and located in the Academic Development Programme (ADP) in the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) at the University of Cape Town under the leadership of Rochelle Kapp and Robert Prince. Several members of the Language Development Group are participants: Moeain Arend, Bongi Bangeni and Ermien van Pletzen. The project focuses on access and throughput of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, particularly those who have been admitted into dedicated Academic Development Programmes. This research takes place at a key historical moment. In October 2008, grade twelve learners wrote the new National Senior Certificate (NSC) for the first time. They are the first cohort of learners who have been educated in a curriculum based on the principles of Outcomes Based Education.
Contact Details
Email: Rochelle.Kapp@uct.ac.zaPhone: +27 21 650 4072
Fax: +27 21 650 5045