28 FACULTY OF HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2021 national project by the Afrikaanse Taal Raad (Afrikaans Language Council) that aims to broaden the scope of Afrikaans high school curricula. Prof Llewellyn Howes is a member of the Opportunity Knocks career exploration network, which connects university students and high school learners with people in various industries to have interviews or attend job shadowing for a day, from June 2020 to the present. 2022 Empowering staff I do not foresee doing anything differently, but will continue to do the nine things listed above to empower and support staff. The new permanent staff need to be welcomed, accommodated, and fully integrated. Enhancing efficiency I aim to increase LanCSAL’s research outputs to 25 DHET units. When looking at LanCSAL’s publication breakdown (2017-2020), three groups can be identified as not contributing much or anything to our LanCSAL’s research outputs, namely (1) Lecturers and Senior Lecturers; (2) PDRFs; and (3) postgraduate students. Many of those in the first group (Lecurers and Senior Lecturers) are still busy with their doctoral studies, so my strategy there has been to empower them in various ways to complete those studies (see above) and then get them to publish from their theses soon after getting their doctoral degrees. Luckily, the people who graduated this year have started submitting articles and book chapters for publication, some of which have indeed been published this year already. I will continue to support and empower those still busy with their doctoral studies, and also continue to encourage staff who recently graduated their doctoral studies to publish. LanCSAL currently has no PDRFs. I am starting with my own course, CLC, but have also asked Marilena Piperides Triandafillou to investigate PDRF possibilities for her subject, Modern Greek. For CLC, I have identified a number of candidates, both nationally and internationally, shared all the relevant information with them about the application process, and encouraged them to apply. In the third category, I will encourage supervisors to get their students to publish from their dissertations and theses. I have further appointed a number of Research Associates this year, and some of them have produced research outputs for UJ. I might appoint a few more next year. I also expect some research outputs from our two Visiting Professors, Andries Coetzee and Liz Gunner. New initiatives/projects There is one new initiative that will be investigated next year and launched in either 2022 or 2023. We plan on registering one or two new SLPs, focusing on academic literacy and professional writing skills respectively. These SLPs will target both students and the business sector. With the help of the deanery, I would like to market these programmes fervently among Humanities students. Department of African Languages Teaching The Department of African Languages offers modules in isiZulu and Sesotho sa Laboa (Sepedi) to undergraduate students. These modules include linguistics, literature and non-mother tongue ones in the two languages. Two online short learning programmes (SLPs), one for ether language, got approved in 2021. The department also offers service modules for the Faculty of Education. These include methodology and PGCE modules in the languages, in preparing students to teach them at schools. African languages are a valuable assert in South Africa. Apart from just being languages, they are also identity marks, as the different nations speaking them are referred to by the same names. For instance, isiXhosa is the language of amaXhosa, isiZulu that of amaZulu, Sepedi that of Bapedi and so on. The existence of these languages alongside of each other also offers an opportunity for multilingualism, as most people strive to be fluent in more than one of them. The ability to express one in any of these languages is also a sign of decolonisation on the part of the speaker. To fit well within the larger society of South Africa, it is imperative that even non-speakers of these languages strive to be fluent in at least one of them. It is mainly
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