Joyce West

Joyce West is a full-time lecturer at Aros where she is dedicated to Christian Foundation Phase teaching, specifically language instruction. She is also a part-time lecturer at the University of Pretoria and an e-Tutor at the University of South Africa (Unisa). After completing her Honours Degree (Cum Laude) and completing several years of teaching experience in both the Foundation and Intermediary Phases, Joyce observed a theory-practice gap and developed a passion to help bridge this gap. Through accompanying students, investigating problems and solutions in the workplace, as well as researching language teaching, she tries to contribute at a Higher Education level too. Joyce has published several study guides and chapters in study guides throughout her career and has attended diverse Higher Education conferences to present her research projects. In 2015, while completing her Master’s Degree in educational psychology, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to lecture for five months at Dordt College in Iowa and to conduct research on Christian Higher Education and work on multilingual research projects. Joyce’s specialty lies in language teaching as well as multilingual approaches and theories to teaching. The goal of her research is to increase literacy in South Africa by bridging the theory-practice gap and to prepare students for the South African classroom realities including large classrooms.