Language Courses and Tests - LCaT

28/05/2025

What do language units at tertiary institutions need to focus on? It is both simple and complex. Language is used to do tasks (simple), but preparing students for the language demands of real-life tasks can be challenging (complex). Prof. Weideman argues for a functional approach when designing language courses.

Organisation-wide language unit courses at tertiary institutions worldwide achieve two key objectives: First, they address the challenge of developing language proficiency for higher and continuing…

04/02/2025

Die matrieks van 2024 van die Hoërskool Waterkloof is weer as die uitblinkers van Gauteng uitgewys.

https://www.netwerk24.com/netwerk24/skole-studente/myskool/matrieks/matrieks-klofies-topskool-in-gauteng-toppresteerder-styg-uit-bo-omstandighede-20250114

Continue reading 2024 Matriekuitslae: Geluk, Klofies, julle is alwéér die top skool in Gauteng

http://lcat.design/2025/02/04/2024-matriekuitslae-geluk-klofies-julle-is-alweer-die-top-skool-in-gauteng/

Die matrieks van 2024 van die Hoërskool Waterkloof is weer as die uitblinkers van Gauteng uitgewys.

25/01/2025

Future university students, did you know? Depending on your chosen course and university, you may be required to take the National Benchmark Tests (NBT), opening on 1 April 2025. At certain South African universities, their results serve as additional entrance criteria. We can help you prepare, as these tests are quite different from those you are used to. Check our timetable and get started!

Nasionale Normtoetse (NNT) Akademiese Geletterdheid (AKG): Registrasie vir werkswinkels Future university students, did you know? Depending on your chosen course and university, you may be required…

02/08/2024

How good is your grammar? Grammar is how words fit together in sentences. Here are some tests to check whether you understand where in a sentence an appropriate noun, adjective, verb, preposition or other kinds of words, like conjunctions — those words whose function is to link parts of a sentence — fit....

How good is your grammar? Grammar is how words fit together in sentences. Here are some tests to check whether you understand where in a sentence an appropriate noun, adjective, verb, preposition o…

08/07/2024

JOURNAL FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING 58(1) 2024: The African way.
Our special issue, focusing on the teaching of African languages, contains articles written exclusively in African languages. We have gained significant insights as we ventured into what may be uncharted territory. We hope that this issue serves as a trailblazer, paving the way for more works of this nature. All the articles are free to access and also contain abstracts in English. https://www.journals.ac.za/jlt/issue/view/431

25/03/2023

Try this! Its free, it's fun, and it's quick. And you will probably feel good about yourself. :-)

A quick online test to test your vocabulary. See your results instantly!

29/04/2022

Hierdie leerder van Montana het die oom gaan soek, en gevind. Lees gerus wat sy te sê het!

Waarom voorbereiding nodig is vir die Akademiese-en-Kwantitatiewe-Geletterdheid-komponent van die Nasionale Normtoetse.

02/02/2022

Eersdaags in Bloem! Alle skole welkom.

02/12/2021

https://lcat.design/2021/12/02/already-planning-for-2022/

Well oiled schools schedule their school’s activities well in advance. Many have already approached LCaT and Purple Pepper Maths for workshop slots for 2022. What are your plans 2022? Contact…

17/09/2021

Purple Pepper Maths en LCaT bied vanjaar weer in samewerking met die Skole Ondersteuningsentrum (SOS) werkswinkels aan in wiskunde en taal vir Graad 11’s.

30/06/2021

Putting NBT preparation into perspective.

No preparation for university is ever wasted time or energy. If my generation had arrived at university better prepared, we would have wasted much less of our own time, money and effort, as well as…