Lecturer Primary School Education Department Education

SUMMARY:
To teach IsiXhosa Home Language at undergraduate level. 2. To teach isiXhosa Conversational Compet

POSITION INFO:

CORE PURPOSE OF JOB

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To teach IsiXhosa Home Language at undergraduate level.
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To teach isiXhosa Conversational Competence at undergraduate level.
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To contribute to faculty administration as required.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

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Facilitate the learning, teaching, and assessment processes in the faculty.
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Participate in academic engagement.
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Participate in faculty administration.
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Conduct, publish and promote research.
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Supervise postgraduate students.

CORE COMPETENCIES

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Facilitation of learning, teaching, and assessment.
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Teaching of IsiXhosa Home Language and isiXhosa Conversational Competence at undergraduate level.
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Have a sound knowledge of learning, teaching, and assessment strategies.
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Be able to teach isiXhosa Conversational Competence to English and Afrikaans Home Language speakers.
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Be able to converse (speak) read and write in isiXhosa.
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Be able to facilitate and engage in curriculum development processes at undergraduate level.
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Be able to conduct scholarly work with an increasing focus on Africanization and Decolonization of the curriculum at undergraduate level.

REQUIREMENTS

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A relevant Masters degree (M Ed or MA Linguistics or Language Education – specializing in isiXhosa).
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A two-year experience of teaching language (IsiXhosa and English or one of these two languages) at school or university level.
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Sound disciplinary and content knowledge of IsiXhosa Home Language.
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Sound disciplinary and content knowledge of IsiXhosa Conversational Competence.
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Sound knowledge of various techniques for teaching isiXhosa Home Language and isiXhosa Conversational Competence.
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Experience with Moodle, or similar learning platforms, will be an advantage.

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