Doctor Zanele Ellen Mtshali joined the Department of Early Childhood Education at the University of Zululand in 2011, after working in several primary schools in the Empangeni area. She also taught Grade One for seven years at a diverse elementary school. She is passionate about teaching languages both IsiZulu and English to young learners. Her research focuses on how language is taught to learners from diverse language backgrounds. She published a paper which says: Teaching English home language comprehension skills to Foundation Phase learners from diverse language backgrounds in South Africa Journal Childhood Education in 2022 and Foregrounding the gender divides in Early Childhood Teachers in 2015. She has two students pursuing Ph.D. and master’s degrees. She has a Ph.D. in Psychology from UKZN, a Master of Linguistics from UNIZULU, Honours from Stellenbosch, a BA from UNIZULU, and a PTD from Vista. She has different portfolios at UNIZULU: a member of the Higher Degree Committee, a member of teaching and learning, and review proposals and programs from other universities for both Ph.D. and masters. She also presented at different universities like Fort hare University, Walter Sisulu, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Mangosuthu Technology, at the moment is doing PGDip with UKZN. As an ECE department, we collaborated with Karlstad University in Sweden in 202 and a project with the University of KwaZulu-Natal language development in helping our students to have a clear understanding of teaching reading in a nearby school with our Campus.