Albert Weidemann is director of the Unit for Academic Literacy of the University of Pretoria, and formerly Director of Professional Programmes in the Faculty of Education at the University of the Western Cape. He was director of the teacher development agency Language Methods and Programmes (L-MAP), and director of the Centre for Education Development (CENEDUS) at the University of Stellenbosch. Before that, he taught Latin and English at the University of the Orange Free State. His main interests are alternative and innovative second language teaching methodologies, and he has published more