Bernard Nchindila

North-West University

Professor Bernard Nchindila currently lectures at the North-West University, South Africa. He holds a BA in Education in English, an Advanced Certificate in Human Resource Management from the University of Zambia, and a Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) from England. He also holds a MA and Ph.D. from the University of South Africa, Pretoria. Prof. Nchindila has 29 years of academic research and management experience and has supervised several graduate students. His research interests include digital humanities, reading literacy, academic English, pragmatics, and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). He is a member of the Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL). He is also an established rated researcher by the South African National Research Foundation.

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Latest work with IntechOpen by Bernard Nchindila

This volume is a collection of research on academic performance. Chapters cover such topics as targeting underserved urban youth, education and science, community-based projects, pedagogy, and developing educational programs, among others. Written by experts, this book offers a comprehensive view of recent developments in the field of academic performance.

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The Essence of Academic Performance

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Standard English for Empowerment in Multilingual Sub-Saharan Africa

By Bernard Nchindila

Standard English for empowerment in sub‐Saharan Africa is a complex issue for several reasons, chief of which is the slavery, colonial and neo‐colonial legacies in which English was deliberately packaged by early British explorers of the region. In line with explorer legacies, English has been largely administered for both general and literary purposes, which have tended to cast this language as a British colonial crown jewel. Consequently, sub‐Saharan Africa has used English for this limited educational purpose, ending up producing items the region does not consume and consuming items it does not produce. Using qualitative methods and critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyse some of the archival material of one of the early British explorers to the southern part of the region—David Livingstone—the chapter presents some sociolinguistics findings. It then suggests how Standard English in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) can be used for mediating the ills of slavery, colonial and neo‐colonial legacies.

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Bernard Nchindila

Latest work with IntechOpen by Bernard Nchindila

The Essence of Academic Performance

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