Afrikaans for Education

Afrikaans is one of the youngest languages in the world, and was (like Hindi, Modern Hebrew, and Indonesian) established as a fully standardised language during the 20th century. Afrikaans can be taken as a university subject in, amongst others, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and USA. Afrikaans is one of the 11 official languages of South Africa and is the mother tongue of the majority of the students studying on the Potchefstroom campus of North-West University.

Setswana and African Languages for Education

In this subject group we offer core subjects as well as electives. Our focus is on equipping students to deal with the realities of language education as home language, 1st Additional and 2nd Additional language and the use of basic Setswana in the multilingual classrooms in South Africa.

English for Education

In the subject group we offer core subjects as well as electives. Our focus is on equipping students to deal with the realities of language education in multilingual classrooms in South Africa, as well as dealing with the challenges of teaching overseas.