Brits Karien
Visiting senior lecturer
Office: Collegium Novum, room 16A
Phone: (0-61) 829 3715
e-mail: karien@ifa.amu.edu.pl
Duty hours: link
Degrees
- BA Honours in Business Communication (Corporate Communication, Public Speaking, New Media) North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), RSA
- BA Honours in Setswana cum laude: North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), RSA
- MA in Setswana and computational linguistics cum laude: North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), RSA
Research interests
- Cultural Studies
- Computational Linguistics
- Setswana Morphology
- Language Acquisition
Teaching experience
- Web design
- New Media
- German language
- Setswana language
- Zulu language
Scholarships
- University of Rostock, Germany: winter semester 2003/4.
- Bursary from the French Embassy to attend a French linguistic course in Reunion (December 2001)
- Bursary from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to attend a winter course in Tübingen, Germany (January 2002)
Papers read at international conferences and congresses
- Special Track for Human Language Technologies (HLT)
13th International Conference of the African Language Association
of Southern Africa, July 2005
