Tessa Dowling
Tessa Dowling is Senior Lecturer of African Languages in the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Cape Town. She is also a director of African Voices, South Africa’s only company entirely dedicated to the development of multimedia materials for the learning of South Africa’s African languages.
isiXhosa: an interview with Tessa Dowling
2023-02-28During International Mother Tongue Language Month, Tessa Dowling talks about her love and teachings of the Xhosa language. "I was captivated by the superb sound of Xhosa and the absolute grammatical sense that it made to me! Its power to connect me to people."
Abafundi abathetha iAfrikaans bangaziva njani ukuba bona bangafundiswa mhlawumbi ngesiXhosa? | How would Afrikaans-speaking students feel if they were taught in the medium of Xhosa?
2015-09-22"Mhlawumbi uyazibuza ukuba singayenza njani na le nto yokuphuhlisa iilwimi zesiNtu ukuze zibe kumgangatho ofanayo neAfrikaans?" | "Perhaps you are asking yourselves what we could do to improve African languages so that they reach the same level as Afrikaans?"
Tessa Dowling on the Funza Lushaka bursaries
2015-05-26"So Chumani Maxwele is correct: we South Africans who are not first-language speakers of African languages need to lose our arrogance, our feelings of superiority and our fear of making fools of ourselves, and learn what it is like to flounder in a language that is not our own, but still make sense."
LALA = Learn an African Language App
2014-02-18 Naomi Meyer asked Tessa Dowling: "Kutheni nizenzile ezi apps na?"