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Beverley Burkett was head of the Language in Education Unit at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa from 1985 to 2007 and, for four years, a visiting professor at the SIT Graduate Institute in the USA. Her areas of expertise include designing, managing, and teaching professional development courses and programs for both in-service and pre-service language teachers, teaching content through the medium of English and multilingual education. Prof. Burkett is co-author of a textbook series for English language learners: Keys to English as well as a chapter in The Handbook of Educational Linguistics. She has presented papers at numerous international conferences in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. She is currently chair of the MATESOL program at Marlboro College Graduate School.
Publications by Prof. Burkett
Making the Role of African Languages in Higher Education a Reality (Beverley Burkett & Elize Koch)