Dr. Nomfundo Nondalana-Vuzane

Nomfundo Nondalana-Vuzane (PhD) is a lecturer in the Department of Language Education at the University of the Western Cape. She teaches undergraduate student teachers who will specialize in isiXhosa Home Language Literacy Teaching in the Foundation Phase. Her research interest is in Early Childhood literacy development. Her special focus is on literacy interventions to enhance reading and writing difficulties through the integration of isiXhosa folklore. She has a special interest in how idioms as linguistic and cultural tools are used to enhance Foundation Phase learners’ creative writing in isiXhosa. Her teaching and research are guided by their educational value in order to foster African epistemology in the early phase of formal learning. The aim is to communicate the richness of African tradition, in other words, to draw on idioms as expressions of African culture.