RÉSUMÉ

YVONNE BARNARD
2006-10-09
1. PERSONAL

Date of birth 40-04-11
Place of birth Pretoria, RSA
Marital status Married
Maiden name Botha
Previous married name Fouché

2. EDUCATION

2.1 PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Transvaal Higher Education Diploma 1961 Normaal College, Pretoria
UNISA Teacher’s Licentiate of Music 1960 UNISA

2.2 ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
BA (Majors: German III English III Afrikaans-Nederlands II 1960 University of Pretoria
BA (Hons) (Linguistics) (cum laude) 1985 UNISA
MA (Linguistics) (cum laude) 1988 UNISA
DLitt et Phil (Linguistics) 1995 UNISA

3. LAST APPOINTMENT
Head of Department: Language, Literacy and Communication, Durban College of Education -
Retired 2002

4. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

4.1 TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Primary , Secondary and Tertiary education

4.2 MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
Head of Department: Language, Literacy and Communication (English, Afrikaans, Zulu)

4.3 EXTERNAL EXAMINATION AND MODERATION
HDE Course (English Second Language ): Faculty of Education, University of Natal (1993 - 2000)
M Ed (Language Development in Education): Faculty of Education,University of Natal (1998-2000)
PhD : Faculty of Education, University of the Orange Free State (2000)

5. AWARDS
Doctor's Exhibition 1989 University of South Africa

6. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
South African Translators’ Institute

7. DISSERTATIONS AND THESES

Fouchè, Y. 1988 The spelling strategies of Afrikaans-speaking learners of English. Master’s
Dissertation, University of South Africa.

Barnard, Y. 1995 Semantico-grammatical consciousness-raising in an ESL programme for
primary school teacher trainees. Doctoral Thesis, University of South Africa.

8. PUBLICATIONS

Publications from 1985 – 2004 include numerous published papers and three English grammar
books prescribed for students.

9. TRANSLATION EXPERIENCE

1989 - 2002
While employed by Education Department: Translation (Afrikaans < > English) and editing (Afrikaans and English) of official education-related documents, diplomas, testimonials, including official ministerial reports presented in parliament.

2003 -
After a career of four decades at all levels of education, including translation and editing of official education-related documents during the last ten years, I have recently embarked on a second and equally rewarding career in translation.

Have worked as freelance translator in Afrikaans < > English; Dutch > English; Dutch > Afrikaans; also edited / proof read English documents for publication.

Recently translated texts include i. a. letters, architectural articles, yacht building website, press releases, user and quick start manuals (IT, veterinary and household appliances), speech text for IT software, economics articles for general consumption, testimonials, certificates, shorter texts like minutes and reports, translation of texts in diagrams e.g. algorithms & flow charts done directly in PDF format.

Fields of expertise for translation: Pedagogy, Education, Sociology, Art, Music, Ecology, Economics, and all texts of a general nature not requiring analytical subject-specific knowledge. Particularly enjoy working with texts such as user manuals for gadgets that require technological insight.

Dr Y Barnard PO Box 639 Tel/Fax 27 44 8770702
SATI 1001312 6560 WILDERNESS Email [email protected]
Republic of South Africa Skype vonne2032