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Carstens, Adelia (University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2019)There appears to be a weak alignment between manuals on using hand gestures in oral presentations, theoretical sources on gesture production, and empirical studies on dimensions of gesture processing and use. Much of the ...
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Carstens, Adelia (South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT), 2013-12)This contribution enters into dialogue with studies conducted both at school and university level on the effectiveness of interaction between subject teachers and language teachers to improve learners’ subject-specific ...
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Carstens, Adelia (Ensovoort Society, 2007)The article reports on a research project that was aimed at determining differences in picture comprehension between literate and low-literate audiences in the context of HIV and AIDS. Structured interviews were held with ...
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Immelman, Susan; Carstens, Adelia; Smith, S.; Masenge, Andries (Higher Education South Africa, 2020-03)While great strides have been made to improve accessibility to higher education in South Africa, successful completion of bachelor's degrees within the prescribed time remains a challenge. Research suggests that a lack ...
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Carstens, Adelia (Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2016-09-29)BACKGROUND : In the construction industry, there is an increased awareness of the importance of soft skills. However, no empirical studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of pedagogical strategies in higher ...
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Carstens, Adelia; Eiselen, Roald (Routledge, 2019)This article provides an overview of the process and initial outcomes of designing a multilingual corpus of academic texts produced by university students with different mother tongues in South Africa, with a view to making ...
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Designing linguistically flexible scaffolding for subject-specific academic literacy interventions Carstens, Adelia (University of Stellenbosch, Education Faculty, Department of Curriculum Studies, 2016)The majority of South African universities are faced with the challenge of teaching subject-specific academic literacy in English to linguistically diverse student groups, while the academic literacy lecturers themselves ...
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Carstens, Adelia; University of Pretoria, Unit for Academic Literacy (University of Pretoria, 2015-09-29)Although multilingualism is the norm in most countries of the world, monolingualism has become the hegemonic mindset. In higher education in South African it has become imperative to give preference to a mindset that ...
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Carstens, Adelia; Rambiritch, Avasha (University of the Free State, 2021-09)The reigning orthodoxy in writing centres has been to avoid directive approaches and embrace non-directive approaches to tutoring. Although since the late 1990s various writing centre scholars have debunked this myth, ...
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Brandt, Mandie; Carstens, Adelia (NISC, 2005)This article demonstrates, through critical analysis, how words and pictures are manipulated in 'The Beauty of Sport', a regular feature section in SA Sports Illustrated (henceforth SASI), to construe images of sportswomen ...
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Carstens, Adelia (University of Stellenbosch Institute for Language Teaching, 2008)Increasing evidence from corpus, discourse and genre analysis has indicated that there is significant variation between disciplines in the way that they structure their discourses, in particular their written genres. ...
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Carstens, Adelia; Fletcher, Lizelle (South African Asociation for Language Teaching, 2009)In tertiary education settings it is imperative for students to move confidently between the academic discourses of a variety of disciplines. Thus, it is merited to aim writing interventions at genres that straddle ...
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Carstens, Adelia (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2013)During recent years the reading and writing of literacy self-narratives has received renewed attention in Higher Education. Of particular interest are the ways in which these narratives reflect the literacy identities ...
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Carstens, Adelia (Routledge, 2011-12)Departing from a socio-constructivist perspective, the main purpose of the research on which this article reports was to indicate the effectiveness of both discipline-specific and generic approaches in teaching academic ...
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Carstens, Adelia (Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2004)In the literature regarding the use of pictures to communicate verbally and visually with less skilled readers, a number of recurring problems are mentioned. These include problems relating to the interpretation of depth ...
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Carstens, Adelia; Snyman, M.E. (Martha Elizabeth) (Suider-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek, 2003)Comprehension of what is communicated in a text can be tested to check a text's effectiveness. In most text types, including persuasive texts, comprehension is the prerequisite for successful information processing. In ...
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Carstens, Adelia (De Gruyter, 2015-07)This article reports on a study of pre-service teachers’ literacy narratives in a South African institution of higher learning. Literacy self-narratives of 57 students were collected and analysed for categories and themes ...
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Carstens, Adelia (Routledge, 2011)This article reports on an analysis of academic essays written by two groups of second-year university students: one group with History as a major, and a mixed group. The analyses focused on key features representing each ...
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Carstens, Adelia (South African Asociation for Language Teaching, 2008)Genre approaches to academic writing are still enjoying wide support among pedagogues and applied linguists in the UK, US and Australia. However, genrebased pedagogies have been widely criticised for their explicit teaching ...
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Van Houwelingen, Francien; Carstens, Adelia (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 1998-08)Although there is concensus among linguists that Afrikaans and Dutch are related languages, and that Afrikaans originated from 17th century Dutch, the differences between present-day varieties of Afrikaans and Dutch serve ...
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