Kristin van der Merwe

Lecturer
BA, MA (Stellenbosch)
Email: k.vandermerwe@ru.ac.za

Research interests:

• Early childhood development of language 
• Language delays and other speech and language pathologies
• Psycholinguistic aspects of bilingualism and multilingualism

Courses taught:

• Linguistics 2 Second Language Learning
• Linguistics 3 Language Disorders
• Professional Communication: Spoken Communication

Publications:

2008: Southwood, F. and van der Merwe, K. First and second language child speakers of Afrikaans’s knowledge of figurative language. Per Linguam, 24(1): 45-64.

MA thesis:

2007: The comprehension of figurative language by Afrikaans-speaking children with and without specific language impairment and by child second language speakers of Afrikaans. University of Stellenbosch.

Current research project:

• Mathematical literacy / abilities in children with language impairments