Dr Thabisile Mphahlele

Overview

Dr Thabisile Mphahlele is a qualified language practitioner who obtained her Masters degree in Applied Linguistics at the University of Johannesburg. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree, which focuses on the role of language in religion. Her research interests include multilingualism and translanguaging, language planning, and the sociolinguistics of Christianity. She started her teaching career as a tutor in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) for Economics and Science students. She then joined the Department of Linguistics as a junior lecturer and tutor in the Linguistics Extended module. She currently teaches language practice, linguistics, and language planning modules at different year levels, and also supervises Honours and Masters research. In addition to her teaching and supervision, she is part of various university committees. She started her teaching career as a tutor in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) for Economics and Science students. She then joined the Department of Linguistics as a junior lecturer and tutor in the Linguistics Extended module. She currently teaches the Language Awareness and Cross-Cultural Communication modules in the BA Language Practitioners programme Thabisile was one of the recipients of the Humanities Faculty's Recognition of Excellence in First-Year Teaching Awards for 2011, an award that is based upon the nomination of top students in the Faculty.