Ms. Mmagonkahloleng Brudence Makua

Presentation Title: Sexism in Language Use Amongst Sepedi Speaking Students

University of Fort Hare, South Africa

Past Speaker

Education and Credentials: Final year PhD candidate in Lexicography at Stellenbosch university. She has a Masters degree in Linguistics and Translation studies obtained from university of Limpopo.

Current position:  She is  a Lecturer in the Department of English studies and Comparative Literature at University of Fort Hare. She teaches first year students and Third year students Advanced Language and General literature where her focus is on Linguistics. She also supervise Honours students in Linguistics. She has also work as a Language specialist at Department of Education to develop language-appropriate assessments aligned to the newly developed reading benchmarks and  developing South African languages.

Areas of Interest: Lexicography, Linguistics, and Translation studies