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Dr Marais elected representative of nodes on SADiLaR’s steering committee
SADiLaR’s Governance Steering Committee is pleased to announce the nomination of Dr Laurette Marais as representative of the nodes of SADiLaR on the committee. Marais is a senior researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and has served as the Speech Node manager since 2022. She has been involved in human language…
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Revitalising siPhuthi: language and culture
Language and culture are closely intertwined; a person’s language influences their perceptions of the world and shapes their cultural identity. This is why, when a language is lost, we lose so much. Dr Sheena Shah and Dr Matthias Brenzinger are working on a SADiLaR-supported project in collaboration with the ebaPhuthi (Phuthi people), a minority group…
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Write It: a free multilingual programme to support students with academic writing
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) forges ahead with an initiative to help students with basic academic writing. SADiLaR’s language development and testing node, the Inter-institutional Centre for Language Development and Assessment (ICELDA), has developed a series of videos, called Write It, to fill the gap by guiding students through writing. Academic writing…
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Launching the Digital Humanities Open Educational Resources Champions Initiative
The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) and the North-West University’s (NWU) UNESCO Chair on Multimodal Learning and Open Educational Resources (OERs) are proud to announce the first intake of our Digital Humanities OER Champions Initiative. This programme, offered through SADiLaR’s ESCALATOR Digital Champions Initiative, seeks to stimulate activism and research around the…
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SADiLaR Newsletter: June 2021
This is the second edition of the SADiLaR newsletter that is now available in all the official South African languages. Click on the newsletter that you would like to read.
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SADiLaR Newsletter: November 2021
This is the third edition of the SADiLaR newsletter that is now available in all the official South African languages. Click on the newsletter that you would like to read.
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SADiLaR Newsletter: June 2022
This is the fourth edition of the SADiLaR newsletter that is now available in all the official South African languages. Click on the newsletter that you would like to read.
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SADiLaR Newsletter: April 2023
This is the fifth edition of the SADiLaR newsletter that is available in allthe official South African languages.Click on the newsletter that you would like to read.
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Workshop: Language resources for the classroom
WORKSHOP: LANGUAGE RESOURCES FOR THE CLASSROOM As language educators, we need to understand how our learners/students are changing and the ways technology can be used to aid their teaching and learning strategies. The movement towards multimodal language learning, from contact teaching to autonomous as well as blended and fully online modes, requires different…
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Celebrating Setswana as an official language of South Africa
As part of its participation in the UNESCO Year of Indigenous Language Project, the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) has dedicated the month of May to the celebration of Setswana as an official language of South Africa. The main celebration event was held at the North-West University’s Mafikeng Campus on 6 May…
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