Audrey Mbeje is from Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She is the Director of the African Language Program at Penn Language Center. She also teaches Zulu language courses and a course titled African Language and Culture.
Office Hours
By appointment
Education
Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, Ball State University
Research Interests
Discourse analysis and second/foreign language pedagogy, foreign language curriculum design and assessment, online and text-based material development, anaphora, passivization, and tense/aspect in the Nguni languages of South Africa.
Courses Taught
- ZULU 0100 Elementary Zulu I
- ZULU 0200 Elementary Zulu II
- ZULU 0300 Intermediate Zulu I
- ZULU 0400 Intermediate Zulu II
- ZULU 0800 Elementary Zulu I in Residence
- ZULU 0120 Accelerated Elementary Zulu
- LING 3040 Structure of a Language - Zulu
Selected Publications
- Zulu Learners' Reference Grammar, National African Language Resource Center (NALRC) 2005
- Discourse Analysis and Foreign Language Pedagogy: A Case of Zulu Demonstratives, Journal of African Language Teachers Association (JALTA) 2005
- The Function of Demonstratives in Zulu and English: A Contrastive Study with Pedagogical Implications. Dissertation. Michigan: UMI Publishing Company 2002
Affiliations
- Vice President, African Language Teachers Association (ALTA)
- Member, National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL)
- Member, Annual Conference in African Linguistics (ACAL)
- Member, World Congress in African Linguistics (WOCAL)