Internal FULK Meeting: Multilingualism Teaching and Learning from a Critical perspective

Seminar

Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025

Time: 09.30 – 11.00

Location: P402, Svante Arrhenius väg 20 A

Xolisa Guzula is a Linguistic ethnographer with a long history of engaged work with communities and literacy clubs for children in South Africa. She will talk about her experiences from this work.

Xolisa Guzula. Foto: Privat.

Xolisa Guzula is one of the founders of a network of community literacy clubs emerging across South Africa and researches children's translanguaging and multi-literacies practice. She has experience in early literacy and biliteracy teacher training and community literacy training. She is a storyteller, author and translator of children's literature and develops bilingual teacher professional materials.

As an early literacy specialist her research interests encompasses biliteracy development; emergent literacy; bi/multilingual education; language and literacy as social practice; multi-literacies; multi-modality; third spaces and bilingual children’s literature.

Contact Christina Hedman to participate

If you are interested in participating, please contact Christina Hedman by email: christina.hedman@su.se

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Swedish as a second language Language Education

Last updated: September 24, 2025

Source: Department of Teaching and Learning

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