Areas of Expertise

• • English
• • Communication
• • Academic Literacy
• • Language Studies

Postgraduate Supervision

Master's Students

• • P. Senyane (2016) — An Investigation into the Use of Mother Tongue Instruction at the Central University of Technology, Free State.
• • O. Setlalentoa (2016) — Investigating the Influence of Filmic Discourse on Creative Writing Skills among Language Practice Students.
• • V. Mpanya (2018) — The Sociolinguistic Implications of Code Switching amongst Sesotho Mother Tongue Speakers.
• • W. Henning (2018) — Topic not supplied.

Doctoral Students

• • Peace Fiadzomor (2018) — A Discourse Analysis of the Abstracts of Undergraduate Students' Research: An Interdisciplinary Study.

Selected Publications

• • Fredericks, B. & Nel, E. (2020). A Pilot Academic Writing Support Course for Doctoral Students at a University of Technology in South Africa. In N. Srisawasdi (Ed.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Educational Research, Faculty of Education, Khon Kaen University, Thailand, 208-215.
• • Fredericks, B. & Alexander, G. (2020). From Theory into Practice: Student Experiences of a Language Practice and Media Studies Programme at a University of Technology in South Africa. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Educational Research, Faculty of Education, Khon Kaen University, Thailand, 216-221.
• • Tondi, T. & Fredericks, B.G. (2020). Dominant Epistemology, African Indigenous Languages, Culture and the Discourse on the Decolonization of Knowledge within the (African) University. African Journals Online, 18(1), 15000-15004.
• • Koai, M. & Fredericks, B.G. (2019). Sesotho Is Still a Marginalised Language. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 37(4), 303-314. DOI →
• • Fredericks, B. (2017). Turning Up the Heat in South African Education. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Research, Khon Kaen University, Thailand, 988-1004.

Conference Proceedings & Presentations

• • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference in Higher Education (2020) — Implementing Work-Integrated Learning in a Programme at a Higher Institution of Learning.
• • 13th International Conference on Educational Research (2020) — A Pilot Academic Writing Support Course for Doctoral Students at a University of Technology in South Africa.
• • 13th International Conference on Educational Research (2020) — Student Experiences of a Language Practice and Media Studies Programme at a University of Technology in South Africa.
• • 10th International Conference on Educational Research, Khon Kaen, Thailand (2017) — Turning Up the Heat in South African Education.
• • 3rd South African Education Research Association Conference, University of the Free State (2015) — Educator Perspectives on the Influence of Immediacy, Verbal Aggression and Compliance Gaining on Learner Achievement.

Internationalisation Activities

• • International Memorandum of Understanding with Thomas More University College, Belgium.
• • International Memorandum of Understanding with a university in Mittweida, Germany.
• • Research project under the NRCT-DFG Cooperative Program between Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University, Thailand; Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany; and the Central University of Technology, Free State. The project was listed as being in the planning stage for 2021-2022.

Community Engagement

• • Teaching English to Grade 11 and 12 learners through the Saturday School project of CUT's Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology.