PanSALB
Private Bag X08, Arcadia, 0007
Tel: 012 341 9651, Fax: 012 341 5938
Email: communication@pansalb.org.za
Web Address: www.pansalb.org.za
SERVICES
Services Offered by PanSALB (Pan South African Language Board)
Translation and Interpreting
Objectives
Skills development in translation and development
Celebration of International Translation Day
Monitoring the use of translation and interpreting facilities
Technical support to provincial language committees.
Linguistics Human Rights and Mediation
Objectives
To facilitate investigations of linguistic human rights violations and to publish findings by the Hearing Committee.
To raise awareness in order to influence and promote multilingualism in all organs of society through effective protection and promotion of linguistics human rights
To provide legal services for the Board, Chief Executive Officer, office staff and PanSALB structures.
To act as an agent of change in assisting those who violate language rights
To commission, studies into complaints etc.
Language in Education
Objectives
To establish and maintain strategic partnerships and networks with the national and provincial departments of education.
To create a climate conducive to the successful implementation of the Language in Education and the Higher Education Policies in the provinces.
To identify strategic projects for the development of marginalized languages.
To create a climate conducive to the advancement of the Language in Education Policy and Multilingualism in education.
To identify mechanisms to promote all languages in education.
Research and Development
Objectives
To assist in initiating studies and projects
To manage all PanSALB projects.
To develop and maintain a database of funded projects
To develop guidelines for project proposal writing
To coordinate applications for financial support
To provide support to National Language Bodies(NLBs) and Board members
To cooperate with both national and international research and funding bodies.
Standardization and Terminology Development
Objectives
Provide technical guidance to NLBs
Ensure that the nine African language NLBs revise the spelling and orthography rules of their respective languages.
Set primary standardization processes in place
Set primary terminology development processes in place
Development Of Literature
Objectives
To support reading clubs in order to encourage a culture of reading
To interact with writers’guilds
To hold workshops on selection criteria for the the prescription of books
To hold literary awards in conjunction with NLBs
National Language Bodies
Objectives
To initiate and implement projects that promote languages
To identify development needs of these languages
To raise funds for recording languages that have small number of speakers left (Khoe and San), to avoid extinction.
