Robyn Tyler

Robyn Tyler is a senior researcher in the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR) at the University of the Western Cape. Her research and teaching focuses on multilingual learning, translanguaging, school language policy, biliteracy, bilingual learning materials development, language across the curriculum and research methodology. She currently has a special interest in tracking the uptake of Mother Tongue Based Bilingual Education (MTBBE) in South African primary schools. Robyn leads the NRF-funded Bilingual Learning Materials Project (2024-2026) working on trialling bilingual learning materials in two Cape Town primary schools. She recently published a monograph with Multilingual Matters entitled: Translanguaging, coloniality and decolonial cracks: Bilingual Science Learning in South Africa (2023) and edited a special issue of Multilingual Margins entitled: Ukuzilanda within decolonial learning and teaching (2024). Robyn is also a founding member of the bua-lit language and literacy collective which advocates for multilingual education and rich literacies for South Africa’s children (www.bua-lit.org.za).