The South African Translators’ Institute (SATI) is a professional association for language practice professionals in South Africa. Membership is open to all translators, interpreters, editors, proofreaders, text reviewers, terminologists, copywriters and others involved in the language practice profession. It currently has some 800 members who work in a wide range of local and international languages.
Continue reading →the South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT), where our passion for language education drives our mission.
The SA Association for Language Teaching (SAALT), are committed to fostering excellence in language teaching through the latest research, trends, and best practices.
Continue reading →The ISEA is a research institute of Rhodes University.
It was established in 1964 to study the problems of English in Africa and in the Republic in particular, as mother tongue, as an official language, and as a second language; how it is spoken and written by the main linguistic groups; how it is taught; to find out the weaknesses of the present system; and devise means to meet them: in fact, a Research Institute with a strong practical bias. – – – the Institute should sponsor research, collect information and organize training both for post-graduate students at the University and for teachers in service.
Today the Institute fulfils the aims of its founders in large-scale research and implementation projects in English education, in the publication of journals devoted to English language and literature in Africa and South Africand by providing a research base for scholars in the field covered by the Institute.
Continue reading →The Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Associations was founded in 1929. Today, the FAK is still the organization that allows you to be creative in your language and culture. The FAK is a future-oriented cultural organization that provides a home for the Afrikaans language and culture and positively promotes our proud Afrikaner history. We like to symbolize a rose tree with Afrikaans, come visit and flower together at the FAK, here you are at home!
Continue reading →The English Academy is a non-profit organisation (021 267 NPO), founded in 1961.The English Academy is concerned with all forms and functions of English. It interests itself in English in education, promotes research and debate, organises lectures, makes representations about language matters, rewards excellence and fosters the creative, critical and scholarly talents of users (and would-be users) of English in Southern Africa.
Continue reading →The Dictionary Unit for South African English (DSAE) is a non-profit company and an affiliated institute of Rhodes University, Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown), South Africa. It was established in 1969 to collect and record English as it is used in South Africa. Since then, it has compiled extensive archives which reflect the diverse influences which shape South African English.
Continue reading →The African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA) was established in 1979 as a non-discriminatory, non-profit-making association at a conference hosted by the Department of African Languages of the University of South Africa (UNISA).
Continue reading →AFSSA ( The Association for French Studies in Southern Africa / Association des Etudes Françaises en Afrique Australe), founded on October 1, 1970, is a non-profit association. Addressing all those interested in research in the field of French language and literature, as well as in the teaching of French at all levels, our objective is to promote French studies in Africa. Southern.
Continue reading →The Alliance Française is a world-wide non-profit, apolitical and non-religious network devoted to promoting French language and Francophone cultures. The Alliance Française is the world’s largest French teaching centre with over 800 organisations in 134 countries, serving over 500 000 students every year, recognised and sponsored by the French government.
Continue reading →The SA Council for English Education (SACEE) is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of the English Language. Founded in 1955, SACEE aims to maintain, promote and encourage education through the medium of English and to improve the standards of written and spoken English in South Africa.
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