Curriculum vitae
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Postal Address:
Britta Edelgard ZAWADA
5912190046087
South African
50 Park View
Stellenberg Rd
Equestria X114
Pretoria
Postnet Suite 565
Private Bag X1
Die Wilgers
0041
Single, with two sons, Jacek (24) and Adam (22), both studying
Family status:
Tel.: +2772-993-9303
Email: zawadbe@unisa.ac.za
Qualifications:
1977
1980
Matric, Overall average: A
BA (US) (cum laude) (Majors: Linguistics, Afrikaans, German;
sub-major English)
1981
BA (Hons) (Algemene Taalwetenskap / Linguistics) (US) (cum
laude)
1986
HOD (nagraads) (UP) (Postgraduate Teaching Diploma) (after
hours)
1993
MA (Linguistics) (Unisa) (cum laude)
Dissertation title: Categorization in the design of linguistic data
bases
(Supervisor: Prof. A. P. Hendrikse)
2005
D. Litt. et Phil. (Unisa)
Thesis title: Linguistic creativity and mental representation
with special reference to intercategorial polysemy
(Supervisor: Prof. A. P. Hendrikse)
2008
Btec Professional Certificate in Project Management
(certificate of attendance)
Currently registered Graduate Certificate in Distance Education and E-Learning at
the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), USA
Summary of occupational experience:
1980-1981
Tutor (Linguistics and German) and Junior lecturer in the Department
of Linguistics, Stellenbosch University
1982-1986
Scientific editor at the Council for Geoscience
1987-2005
Full-time lecturer in linguistics at UNISA; and part-time lecturer in
Linguistics for Speech-Language Pathology MEDUNSA
2006-2008
Chair of the Department of Linguistics at UNISA
2009- 2011 Director of the School of Arts, Education, Languages and
Communication, now the School of Arts, at UNISA
2011Currently Deputy Executive Dean of the College of Human Sciences at
UNISA (University of South Africa)
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Teaching:
I have more than 20 years’ experience teaching Linguistics at all levels.
Teaching involves all aspects of setting and marking assignments and exam
papers, answering student queries, face-to-face lectures, training tutors and using
ICTs in teaching and learner support, in contact, distance and online environments.
1.
At undergraduate level: as primary lecturer in syntax, morphology, phonetics,
phonology, semantics and pragmatics, typology and cognitive linguistics; and
as team member in psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and
text linguistics, and corpus linguistics.
2.
At postgraduate level: various aspects of descriptive and theoretical
linguistics, especially in cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics.
3.
Supervision of Masters and Doctoral students.
Development of study material:
Designing and writing camera-ready and online study material at both
undergraduate and postgraduate level in the domain listed above. This includes
interactive teaching texts which are not based on a primary textbook, as well as a
blended learning approach at Honours level. Editing, translating and doing critical
reading and quality assessment of all other modules in linguistics.
I am currently responsible for the training of the approximately 700 academics
in the College of Human Sciences in e-learning and in using ICTs in the design and
development of study material.
Curriculum design:
1.
Designing (and re-designing) the undergraduate Linguistics major, as well as
designing (and re-designing) the Hons in General Linguistics.
2.
Ensuring that the overall undergraduate and postgraduate linguistics
curriculum is coherent, and complies with all the requirements of School,
College and University.
3.
Experience in the design and compliance of academic programmes with the
DoE / DoHET and CHE / HEQC and HEQSF policies and criteria. This
involved, amongst other things, the submission and accreditation of new
qualifications, as well as aligning existing qualifications, ranging from Higher
Certificates to doctoral programmes. Specific projects in 2013 include the
Music and the Theology PQM at Unisa (ranging from non-formal workshops
and programmes to doctoral level).
4.
Experience in the design, development and quality assurance of non-formal
short courses and learning programmes in the Centres of the College of
Human Sciences.
4.
Pursuing interdepartmental university-wide, as well as international,
cooperation for developing undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Quality Assurance:
1.
Responsible for the Quality Assurance processes in the College of Human
Sciences; this involves amongst others things, self-initiated external peerreviewed programme reviews, as well as programme reviews done by the
CHE, as well as the HPSCSA and the SSCSA.
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2.
During my tenure as School Director responsible for Education Unisa’s B. Ed.
Programmes (which had been on improvement plans before my tenure) were
fully accredited.
Academic administration, management and leadership:
I have more than 7 years’ experience in senior management positions at Unisa, first as
Chair of the Department of Linguistics, as School Director of the School of Arts, and
now as Deputy Executive Dean of the College of Human Sciences. The list below
reflects my experience in the more than 20 years that I have been at Unisa.
1.
Convener of Departmental and School Tuition Committees and Departmental
Research Committee
2.
Departmental representative on the Tuition Committees of Sub-faculty/School
and Faculty/College, including Member of Task Team on Semesterisation,
and Member of Task Team on Tuition Excellence Awards
3.
Course leader at undergraduate level for several modules each year
4.
Paper leader at postgraduate level for two papers each year
5.
Member of the Departmental Management and Executive Committees, Acting
CoD for extensive periods
6.
Chair of Department of Linguistics: involving all aspects of tuition, research
as well as HR and financial management
7.
Director of the School of Arts, Education, Languages and Communication
(now the School of Arts) and member of College Management of the College
of Human Science at Unisa
8.
Chairperson of the School Management Committee and the School Tuition
Committee of the School of Arts
9.
Member of the College Management and Executive, the Board of the College
of Human Sciences, and the College Research and Community Engagement
Committees
10.
Chairperson of the College Tuition and Learner Support Committee, College
Short Learning Programme Committees, as well as the College Projects and
Planning Committee
11.
Member of the Senate of the University of South Africa, also serving in the
Senate Students’ Disciplinary, Senate Tuition and Learner Support Committee
and Senate Language Committee
12.
Elected member representing Senate on the Senate Executive Committee
13.
Involvement in the Commonwealth of Learning and HEQC Institutional
Audits of Unisa in 2007 and 2008
14.
Member of the ODL Task Teams on Assessment and on Open Admissions
2010 - 2011
15.
Convenor of the Senate Task Team on Semesterisation 2012 – 2013
16.
Academic liaison on the Vice-Chancellor’s Task Team on Exam Security
17.
Leading the Senate Language Committee task team and projects on
Multilingualism and the Introduction of African Languages as Languages of
Teaching and Learning.
Mentoring and staff development:
1.
Monitoring and training of lecturers, tutors, e-tutors, student assistants and
outside markers.
2.
Mentoring colleagues in all aspects of tuition, research and academic
citizenship.
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3.
Participating in the College of Human Sciences Mentorship Programme as a
mentor.
External examining:
Third-level linguistics courses at University of Stellenbosch
Honours paper in psycholinguistics at University of Kwa-Zulu/Natal
Masters and doctoral examination of theses in Cognitive Linguistics
Completed Masters students:
Magda Altman Making sense of traditional Chinese medicine: a cognitive semantic
approach (2004) (Awarded with distinction)
Chantelle van Heerden Intertextuality Reinterpreted: A Cognitive Linguistics
Approach With Specific Reference to Conceptual Blending (2008) (Awarded with
distinction)
Completed Doctoral student:
AJG Roux
Kognisiewerkwoorde in Afrikaans (Awarded in May 2012)
Current Doctoral students:
TD Nkwe:
The acquisition of Tsonga in the preschool years to Grade R
S Naicker:
A metatheoretical analysis, comparison and evaluation of generative
and cognitive linguistics
Research:
Publications:
1994 The defining features of scientific concepts. S. Afr. J. Ling., Supplement 20:
285-316. (Accredited article).
1995 On the adequacy of terminological concept theories. Terminology 1 (2): 253275 (Joint author with Prof. P.H. Swanepoel). (International accredited
journal).
1996 The representation of noun and verb polysemy. S. Afr. J. Ling., Supplement
30: 103-117. (Accredited article).
1997 Review of the Dictionary of Geology of the National Terminology Services
Lexikos 7: 315-319. (Book review).
1998 Mineral species: A case for Cognitive Semantics. Proceedings of the XVIth
International Congress of Linguists (Pergamon CD Rom: Elsevier Science).
(Peer-reviewed conference proceedings).
2001 Introduction. In: Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics. John Benjamins:
Amsterdam: 1-13 (together with Hubert Cuyckens). (pages ix-xxvii).
2001 Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics. Issues in Linguistic Theory. John
Benjamins: Amsterdam (together with Hubert Cuyckens). 296 pgs.
2005 Preface. Editor: Special volume of Southern African Linguistics and Applied
Language Studies on Cognitive Linguistics. Volume 23 (2): iii-v.
2006 Linguistic creativity from a cognitive perspective. Southern African
Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 24(2): 235-254. (Accredited
article).
2007 Conceptual integration and intercategorial polysemy. Language Matters 38(1:
150-175. (Accredited article).
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2007 Writing across the lines. Editor: Special volume of Language Matters as a
Festschrift for Prof AP Hendrikse. Volume 38 (1): 1-2.
2008 A cognitive and corpus linguistic re-analysis of the acquisition of the Zulu
noun class system (with Mtholeni N. Ngcobo). Language Matters 39 (2): 316331. (Accredited article).
2012 Education Programmes for Prison Inmates: Reward for Offences or Hope for a
Better Life? (With K Quan-Baffour). Journal of Sociology and Social
Anthropology, 3(2): 73-81. (Accredited article).
2013 Sustaining Informal Sector Women Entrepreneurs through Financial Literacy
(With Veli Jiyane). Libri, 63(1): 47-56. (Accredited article).
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Unpublished research reports:
1989 A manual for describing and analysing morphological data in the Term Bank
of the South African Terminological Service (report commissioned by the
Department of Arts and Culture).
2007 Advisory report on the provision of government information and services for
socio-economic development in local South African Languages of choice
using ICT platforms (report commissioned by the Presidential National
Commission on Information Society and Development). 124 pgs.
Papers read at national and international conferences:
1987 Describing and analysing morphological data in the Term Bank of the South
African Terminological Service: how linguists can help terminographers.
Conference of the Linguistics Society of South Africa, Grahamstown
1989 Terms as words or words as terms? Pre-conference symposium of the
Linguistics Society of South Africa, Pretoria
1996 What noun and verb polysemy can tell us about the lexicon. Symposium on
Linguistic categorisation, Unisa, Pretoria
1997 What noun and verb polysemy can tell us about the lexicon. International
Conference of the Cognitive Linguistics Association, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
1997 Mineral species: A case for Cognitive Semantics. XVIth International
Congress of Linguists, Paris, France.
2003 Using Cognitive Linguistics as a tool to interpret the concept ‘Son of Man’
Conference of the Linguistics Society of South Africa, Johannesburg.
2005 Theoretical models of linguistic creativity Conference of the Linguistics
Society of South Africa, Dhikhololo, Pretoria.
2006 Conceptual integration as a model to account for intercategorial polysemy
Conference of the Linguistics Society of South Africa, Durban.
2007 A framework for church interpreting. Conference of the Linguistics Society of
South Africa, Potchefstroom.
2008 The lexical and conceptual development of pre-school children. Acquisition of
African Languages 2008, Stellenbosch.
2009 The limits and possibilities of quality assurance in an open distance learning
institution: A case study of teacher education and linguistics provision at the
University of South Africa (UNISA). (With KP Dzvimbo). Annual Conference
of the Indian Association of Teacher Educators (IATE) in association with the
Institute of Distance and Open Learning, Mumbai, India.
2010 Adult Basic Education Training Programmes for Inmates: Reward for
offences? (With K Quan-Baffour). EASA Conference, Potchefstroom.
2010 Linguistic barriers to informed consent in clinical trials. First Patient
Recruitment Conference of the South African Association for Clinical
Research, Pretoria.
2011 Cognition and vision in Afrikaans. International Conference of the Cognitive
Linguistics Association, Xi’an, China.
Member of scientific organisations:
Linguistics Society of South Africa (current President and Board member)
Bursaries, awards and other achievements:
1976
Prefect
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1977
Head Girl
Die Burger and The Argus Leadership Awards
Dux Scholar
Numerous Eisteddfod Awards for Drama
Committee member and chairperson of several religious and cultural
organisations (such as debating, choir, drama)
Member of first school team in tennis, hockey, netball and athletics
Cape Provincial Administration Award for Best Matric Pupil in
Afrikaans in the Cape Province
1978-1980
Cape Provincial Administration Education Bursary
1981
US 2000 Bursary
1991
Unisa funding for visiting the Lexicography Unit at the University of
Exeter and the offices of the Oxford English Dictionary
1996
Unisa Doctoral Exhibition
1997
CSD funding for attending conferences in Paris and Amsterdam
1999
Grant from the Istitute Mitteleuropeo di Cultura to attend the Bolzano
International School in Cognitive Analysis 99 in Italy
2006-2008
NRF Thuthuka Women-in-Research
2008-2010
UNISA Strategic project for the development of the UNISA Spoken
Language Corpus (with colleagues from the Unversity of Gothenburg)
Several Unisa conference grants
Other relevant experience:
 Regularly reviewing papers in cognitive linguistics to be published in national
and international journals and/or books.
 Terminology consultant for the development of the linguistic aspects of the
National Term Bank.
 Participated in project management of research projects in the Council for
Geoscience (1982-1986).
 I have edited and supported the writing of several government research
reports, amongst others the Systemic Review of the Science Councils led by Dr
Muhammed Jeenah.
 Attended the Bolzano International School in Cognitive Analysis 99 in Italy.
 HERS-SA Academic Leadership School, Cape Town, 2006 and 2011.
 Various other leadership training programmes
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