Towards Effective Communication: IsiXhosa Language Learning and the Need for Bilingual Dictionaries in Health Sciences Education

Gambushe, Wanga and Ngwendu, Amandla and Marquard, Cael (2025) Towards Effective Communication: IsiXhosa Language Learning and the Need for Bilingual Dictionaries in Health Sciences Education, Proceedings of African Association for Lexicography - 29th International Conference, 2-5 July 2025, Cape Town, South Africa, 28-30, African Association for Lexicography.

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Abstract

This extended abstract describes a survey of dictionary culture in the Faculty of Health Sciences at UCT. It also proposes using the IsiXhosa.click dictionary as a way to mitigate the identified lack of dictionary usage.

Item Type:	Conference paper
Uncontrolled Keywords:	IsiXhosa, Lexicography, e-Lexicography, Dictionary, Online Dictionary, Health Sciences
Subjects:	Information systems > Information systems applications > Collaborative and social computing systems and tools > Open source software Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence > Natural language processing > Language resources Information systems > Information retrieval > Document representation > Dictionaries
Alternate Locations:	https://www.afrilex.co.za/_files/ugd/bd0c6e_26ce7c948ecf4c7283d0edc600ec69fa.pdf
Date Deposited:	13 Oct 2025 12:22
Last Modified:	13 Oct 2025 12:22
URI:	https://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1741

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