Dr Kathleen Heugh

Kathleen Heugh is the Course co-ordinator of the English Language Pathway. She has taught courses on language policy and planning, bilingual and multilingual education and language acquisition at the Universities of Cape Town and Antwerp. She has undertaken large-scale studies on languages and literacy in education in sub-Saharan Africa for various development agencies and governments.Currently she works closely with colleagues in several universities and research organisations in South Africa, India, Europe and the USA; is interested in the education of minority and marginalised communities; and works towards disseminating research and expertise from the peripheries to the centre/s.

• Second language (and literacy) acquisition
• Bilingual and multilingual education
• Language policy and planning
• Post-colonial debates on languages and citizenship

Extraordinary Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

External Partner (Southern Hemisphere), Sustainable Development in a Diverse World [SUS.DIV, a European Union Network of Excellence] http://www.susdiv.org/

International Advisor to the National Multilingual Education Resource Centre(NMRC), Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi http://www.nmrc-jnu.org/

Ambassador, Minority Research Network, Erasmus School of Law,Erasmus University, Rotterdam http://www.frg.eur.nl/pub/sectie_staats_en_bestuursrecht/minorityresearchnetwork/

AILA Research Network: Language Policy

Consortium on Training in Language Documentation and Conservation

BA Hons (Rhodes University, South Africa)

M Phil (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

PhD (Stockholm University)

Higher Diploma in Education (Rhodes University, South Africa)

• Language and literacy acquisition in diverse settings
• First, second and foreign language teaching
• Language assessment in multilingual settings
• Language policy and planning
• Post-colonial debates on languages and citizenship

Books and Chapters in Books:

Heugh, K. 2009. Literacy and bi/multilingual education in Africa. In Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson, Ajit K Mohanty and Minati Panda (eds.) Multilingual Education for Social Justice. New York and Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 103-124.

Heugh, K. 2009. Literacy and bi/multilingual education in Africa: Recovering collective memory and expertise. In: Multililngual Education for Social Justice. Globalising the Local. Mohanty, A., M. Panda, R. Phillipson and T. Sktutnabb-Kangas (eds). 95-113. New Dehli: Orient Blackswan.

Heugh, K. 2008. Language Policy and Education in Southern Africa. In May, S. & Hornberger, N. (eds) Volume 1: Language Policy and Political Issues in Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Second Edition. New York: Springer Science + Business Media, LLC, 355-367.

Heugh, K. 2007. Implications of the stocktaking study on mother-tongue and bilingual education in sub-Saharan Africa: who calls which shots? In Cuvelier, P., du Plessis, T., Meeuwis, M., & Teck, L. (eds) Multilingualism and Exclusion. Policy, Practice and Prospects. Studies in Language policy in South Africa, 40-61. Pretoria: Van Schaik.

Heugh, K. 2007. English in the curriculum in South Africa. In Mercer, N., Swann, J., & Mayor, B. (eds) Learning English, 181-188. Abingdon, Ox. and New York: Routledge and The Open University.

Heugh, K. 2007. Language and Literacy Issues in South Africa. In Rassool, N. (ed.) Global Issues in Language, Education, and Development: Perspectives from Postcolonial Countries. (Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights 4). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 187-218.

Heugh, K. 2005. Language Education Policies in Africa. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, Vol. 6: 414-423. Elsevier Science.

Heugh, K. 2005. Teacher education issues: implementation of a new curriculum and language in education policy. In Alexander, N. (ed) Mother tongue-based bilingual education in South Africa: the dynamics of implementation. Series: Multilingualism, Subalternity and Hegemony of English, 4: 137-158. Frankfurt am Main: Multilingualism Network & Cape Town: PRAESA.

Stroud, C. & Heugh, K. 2004. Language rights and linguistic citizenship. In Freeland, J. & Patrick, D. (eds) Language rights and language survival: Sociolinguistic and sociocultural perspectives. Manchester, UK: St. Jerome Publishing.

Mahlalela-Thusi, B., & Heugh, K. 2004. Terminology in Southern African Languages: Aren’t there any? In Brock-Utne, B., Desai, Z., & Qorro, M. (eds). Researching the language of instruction in Tanzania and South Africa, 177-201. Cape Town: African Minds.

Heugh, K. 2003. Language Policy and Democracy in South Africa. The prospects of equality within rights-based policy and planning. (Published PhD Thesis.) Stockholm: Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University.

Heugh, K. 2003. A Recent Account of Language in Education Policy Developments in South Africa. In Cuvelier, P., Du Plessis, T. & Teck, L. (eds) Multilingualism, Education and Social Integration. Pretoria: Van Schaik.

Heugh, K. 2002. Recovering multilingualism: language policy developments in South Africa. In Mesthrie R (ed) Language in South Africa, 449-475. Cambridge: CUP.

Heugh, K. 2000. Giving good weight to multilingualism in South Africa. In Phillipson, R. (ed) Rights to Language: Equity, Power, and Education. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Heugh, K. 1997.The language issue: Is multilingualism the way to go? In Education Africa Forum: First Edition, Pinegowrie: Education Africa.

Heugh, K., Siegrühn, A. & Plüddemann, P. 1995. Multilingual Education for South Africa. Johannesburg: Heinemann.

Heugh, K. 1995. Disabling and enabling: implications of language policy trends in South Africa. In Mesthrie, R. (ed) Language and Social History. Studies in South African Sociolinguistics, 329-350. Cape Town: David Philip.

Heugh, K. 1995. From unequal education to the real thing. In Heugh, K., Siegrühn, A. & Plüddemann, P. (eds) Multilingual Education for South Africa, 42-52. Johannesburg: Heinemann Publishers.

Edited Journal:

Heugh, K. (guest editor) 2002. Special Issue: Many Languages in Education. Perspectives in Education 20.1.

Journal articles:

Heugh, K. 2009. Into the Cauldron: an interplay of indigenous and globalised knowledge with strong and weak notions of literacy and language education in Ethiopia and South Africa. Language Matters. Studies in the languages of Africa, Volume 40 Issue 2, 166-189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228190903188559

Heugh, K. 2009. Contesting the monolingual practices of a bilingual to multilingual policy English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 8 (2). English Teaching: Practice and Critique September, 2009, Volume 8, Number 2, pp 96-113. http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/files/etpc/files/2009v8n2art5.pdf

Heugh, K. 2006. Die prisma vertroebel: taalonderrigbeleid geïnterpreteer in terme van kurrikulumverandering. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 46.2: 63-76.

Heugh, K. 2003. Can authoritarian separatism give way to language rights? Current Issues in Language Planning, 4(2): 126-145.

Heugh, K. 2002. The Case Against Bilingual and Multilingual Education in South Africa: Laying Bare the Myths. Perspectives in Education, 20(1): 171-196.

Mahlalela-Thusi, B. & Heugh, K. 2002. Unravelling some of the historical threads of mother-tongue development and use during the first phase of Bantu Education (1955-75). Perspectives in Education, 20(1): 241-257.

Heugh, K. 2001. Multilingual Voices Lost in Monolingual Texts and Messages. Writing in South-Africa at the End of Apartheid. Alizés (Trade Winds) 21: 99-122.

Heugh, K. 2000. Multilingual Voices – isolation and the crumbling of bridges. Agenda, 46:21-33.

Heugh, K. 1999. Languages, Development and Reconstructing Education in South Africa. International Journal of Educational Development, 19: 301-313.

Alexander, N. & Heugh, K. 1999. Language policy in the New South Africa. Zegeye, A. & Kriger, R. (eds) Cultural Change and Development in South Africa. Special Issue, 1998-9 Culturelink, 9-33.

Heugh, K. 1997. Disabling and Enabling: Implications of Language Policy in Africa. (Watts J and Jerzy J (eds) Cultural Democracy and Ethnic Pluralism: Multicultural and multilingual policies in education.) Cross Cultural Communication, 5: 243-270.

Heugh, K. 1994. Language as a Functional Resource. Southern African Review of Books, 13.

Heugh, K. 1993. The Place of English in Relation to Other Languages in South Africa. Per Linguam, 9(1): 2-10.

Reports - Government, Development Agency:

Reeves, C., Heugh, K., Prinsloo, C P., Macdonald, C., Netshitangani, T., Alidou, H., Diedericks, G. 2008. Evaluation of Literacy Teaching in the Primary Schools of the Limpopo Province. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council.

Heugh, K., Benson, C., Bogale, B & Gebre Yohannis, M.A. 2007. Final Report: Study on Medium of Instruction in Primary Schools in Ethiopia. Commissioned by the Ministry of Education, Ethiopia. September to December 2006.

Heugh, K., Diedericks, G., Prinsloo, C., & Herbst, D. 2007. Assessment of the Language and Mathematics Skills of Grade 8 Learners in the Western Cape in 2006. Human Sciences Research Council: Pretoria.

Heugh, K. 2006. Theory and Practice – Language Education Models in Africa: research, design, decision-making, and outcomes. In: Alidou, H., Boly, A., Brock-Utne, B., Diallo Y. S., Heugh, K., & Wolff, H.E. Optimizing Learning and Education in Africa – the Language Factor. A Stock-taking Research on Mother Tongue and Bilingual Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, 56- 84. Paris: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). http://www.adeanet.org/adeaPortal/adea/biennial-2006/doc/document/B3_1_MTBLE_en.pdf

Heugh, K. 2006. Cost Implications of the Provision of Mother Tongue and Strong Bilingual Models of Education in Africa. In: Alidou, H., Boly, A., Brock-Utne, B., Diallo Y. S., Heugh, K., & Wolff, H.E. Optimizing Learning and Education in Africa – the Language Factor. A Stock-taking Research on Mother Tongue and Bilingual Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, 138-156. Paris: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). http://www.adeanet.org/adeaPortal/adea/biennial-2006/doc/document/B3_1_MTBLE_en.pdf

Conference Proceedings - Edited:

Heugh, K. 2009. When a school principal does not believe in the impossible. From multilingual explorations to system-wide assessment. Cuvelier, P., Vanderkerckhove, R., & Aerts, A. (eds). Proceedings: Multilingualism from Below. MIDP Colloquium 2009 14-16 September 2009, 52-54. Antwerp: Linguapolis Institute for Language and Communication, University of Antwerp and Province of Antwerpen.

Heugh, K. 2008. Linguistic diversity and the resource vs. human rights conundrum. A Response to François Grin’s ‘The affordability of multilingualism: an economic view.’ In Du Toit, J.B. and Viljoen, H.C. (eds) Proceedings of the Symposium on Multilingualism in South Africa. Stellenbosch, 8 March. Stellenbosch: iMAG and TABEMA, 22-29.

Heugh, K. 2004. Is Multilingual Education Really More Expensive? In Pfaffe, J. (ed.) Making multilingual education a reality for all: operationalising good intentions. Proceedings of the joint Third International Conference of the Association for the Development of African Languages in Education, Science and Technology (ADALEST) and the Fifth Malawian National Language Symposium, Mangochi, Malawi 30 August-3 September. 212-233. Zomba: Centre for Language Studies, University of Malawi & GTZ (German Technical Cooperation). http://www.adalest.com/

Heugh, K. 2003. A re-take on bilingual education in and for South Africa. In: Fraurud, K. & Hyltenstam, K. (eds) Multilingualism in Global and Local Perspectives. Selected papers from The 8th Nordic Conference on Bilingualism, November 1-3, 2001 Rinkeby, 47-62. Stockholm: Centre for Research on Bilingualism.

Heugh, K. 2002. A History of Mother Tongue and Bilingual Education in SA. In: Beckett, T. (ed) Reports on Mother-Tongue Education: Proceedings of the Mother-tongue education with special reference to South Africa and Belgium, International Workshop, 14-15 May 2001, 11-22. University of Cape Town. Cape Town: University of Antwerp-PRAESA.

Heugh, K. 2001. A Proposal for a Southern African Program for the Training of Trainers of Educators in Multilingual Education. In: Pfaffe, J. (ed) Cross-Border Languages within the context of mother-tongue education. Proceedings of the Third national Symposium on Language Policy and Language Policy Implementation, Mangochi, 20-21 August 2001. Zomba: Centre for Language Studies, University of Malawi & GTZ (German Technical Cooperation).

Heugh, K. 1999. Languages, Development and Reconstructing Education in South Africa. In Limage, L. (ed) Comparative Perspectives on Language and Literacy: Selected Papers from the Language and Literacy Commission of the 10th World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, 13-17 July, in Cape Town, 159-173. Dakar: UNESCO.

Heugh, K. 1999. Effective and Efficient Multilingualism in the Building of a Democratic South Africa or Linguistic Hegemony and Marginalisation. In: Seminar Report: Consolidating Democracy in South Africa, 75-81. Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.

Heugh, K. 1996. The impact of two NGOs on language policy and planning in South Africa: a case-study. In: Accountability in governmental and NGO projects and programmes. Dunford Seminar Report, 52-59. Manchester: The British Council.

Heugh, K. 1993. Entrenching Inequality: English in the Classroom. In: Young, D. (ed) How do we ensure Access to English in a Post-Apartheid South Africa? Proceedings of The English Academy Conference of Southern Africa, Cape Town 1-3 July 1992, 107-112. Cape Town: English Academy & UCT.

Heugh, K. 1987. Trends in language medium policy for a post-apartheid South Africa. In Young D (ed) Language Planning and Medium in Education, 206-220. Cape Town: The Language Education Unit, UCT and SAALA.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Languages, Education

• Language policy and planning in African countries
• Mother tongue, bilingual and multilingual education, especially in Africa
• Second language acquisition, especially English as a second language
• Literacy/biliteracy in developing countries