August 31, 2021
SALALS virtual conference 2021 – Programme
Programme
Below is the latest version of the conference programme. Conference participants who have not received the Zoom session links must please email salals.conference2021@gmail.com
Conference information & Registration
Monday 20th September, 2021
08:15–08:30 | Workshop Opening |
08:30–09:30 | Welcome by SADiLaR – Prof Langa Khumalo |
09:30–13:00 | SADiLaR WORKSHOP 1 – REGISTER HERE Introduction to working with digital text Voyant tools Participants will gain new experience on how to analyse and read digital texts in an online environment – no prior experience required. What you can do with Voyant (https://service.sadilar.org/voyant/): Use it to learn how computers-assisted analysis works. Check out our examples that show you how to do real academic tasks with Voyant. Use it to study texts that you find on the web or texts that you have carefully edited and have on your computer. Use it to add functionality to your online collections, journals, blogs or web sites so others can see through your texts with analytical tools. Use it to add interactive evidence to your essays that you publish online. Add interactive panels right into your research essays (if they can be published online) so your readers can recapitulate your results. Regular expressions Participants will learn how to search for patterns in text using regular expressions. Knowledge gained in this session will be transferable to many different platforms and analysis systems. No prior experience needed. |
13:00-14:00 | LUNCH |
14:00–17:30 | SADiLaR WORKSHOP 2 – REGISTER HERE ELAN Participants will gain experience in using ELAN to annotate video and audio recordings. No prior experience needed. With ELAN a user can add an unlimited number of textual annotations to audio and/or video recordings. An annotation can be a sentence, word or gloss, a comment, translation or a description of any feature observed in the media. Annotations can be created on multiple layers, called tiers. Tiers can be hierarchically interconnected. An annotation can either be time-aligned to the media or it can refer to other existing annotations. The content of annotations consists of Unicode text and annotation documents are stored in an XML format (EAF) https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan |
Tuesday 21st September, 2021
09:00 | Day 1 Opening |
09:15-09:45 | Welcome |
09:45–10:45 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Prof Anne Baker What you always wanted (your students) to know about sign languages |
10:45–11:00 | TEA / COFFEE BREAK |
12:30–13:30 | LUNCH |
15:00–15:30 | TEA / COFFEE BREAK |
15:30–16:30 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Prof Leketi Makelela Breaking the walls of colonial education: Translanguaging as a policy for schooling in the Global South |
16:30 | Social event |
Wednesday 22nd September, 2021
09:00 | Day 2 Opening |
09:15–09:45 | Introduction to the SADiLaR | SU Child Language development node |
09:45-10:45 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Dr Katie Alcock Language development in sub-Saharan Africa |
10:45–11:00 | TEA / COFFEE |
12:30–13:30 | LUNCH |
15:00–15:30 | TEA / COFFEE BREAK |
15:30–16:30 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Prof Theresa Biberauer Third Wave Generative Linguistics: an opportunity for South African linguists |
16:30 – 16:45 | TEA / COFFEE BREAK |
16:45 | SALALS AGM |
Thursday 23 September, 2021
09:15 | Day 3 Opening |
Zoom Session 5A | Zoom Session 5B | Zoom Session 5C | |
09:30–10:00 | The impact of interpreting research in South Africa Herculene Kotzé | Automatic Determination of Setswana Noun Classes Gabofetswe Malema, Boago Okgetheng, Moffat Motlhanka & Goaletsa Rammidi | Historical sources for Early Afrikaans 1675-1925: Small (first) steps towards developing an online historical corpus and archive for linguistic research Roné Wierenga & Wannie Carstens |
10:00–10:30 | Exploring challenges of translating culturally vulgar words from English to Xitsonga Mafemani Joseph Baloyi | The automation of the isiZulu noun prefix for pedagogy Mthuli Buthelezi | The Burden of Writing in African Languages Tebogo Maahlamela |
10:30-11:00 | The novice writer as editor: Using peer editing as part of formative feedback in academic writing in an online teaching-learning environment Elsa Meihuizen & Mariska Nel | The exploration of syntactic links: subject-verb agreement defilement in Sesotho Madira Thetso |
11:00–11:30 | TEA / COFFEE BREAK |
11:30–12:30 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Prof Panos Athanasopoulos Learning to think in another language: The case of motion |
12:30 | Closing & Awards |
March 30, 2021