Special edition

A former student of mine, Professor Tobie van Dyk, current Director of the School of Languages at North-West University, spearheaded an initiative by the executive committee of the South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT) to dedicate a special issue of their journal to me. For this honour I am deeply grateful.

The celebratory publication contains contributions and tributes from some of my former students on academic literacy. I am extremely proud of all of them.

My heartfelt thanks to the contributors: former students, colleagues and associates from South Africa, Edinburgh, Antwerp, Nijmegen, Ann Arbor and Groningen.

“I first met Albert Weideman in 1996… I have learned much from Albert over the years as I have watched him in his many accomplished roles. A self-described ‘philosopher,’ Albert Weideman is that. However, he also operates skillfully out of the ivory tower and in the world; he is, in short, a rare combination of an academic and an entrepreneur.” — Diane Larsen Freeman

“The philosophical paradigm of Weideman enables an appreciation of the uniqueness of aspects and the coherence between them.”— Danie Strauss

“… die onselfsugtige skep van geleenthede vir verdienstelike mense, die bemiddel van beurse vir jongmense, die afstaan van besluitneming met delegeer, die vestig van selfvertroue met bemagtiging ….”— Christo van Rensburg.

Journal for Language Teaching

Volume 46, Issue 2, 2012

Table of Contents*

* Courtesy Sabinet Online