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Browsing Unit for Academic Literacy by Subject "Academic literacy"
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(University of Stellenbosch, Education Faculty, Department of Curriculum Studies, 2014)This paper focuses on the results of a questionnaire administered to students who wrote the Test of Academic Literacy for Postgraduate Students (TALPS) between 2008 and 2010. The purpose of the questionnaire was to elicit ...
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(University of the Free State, Faculty of Education, 2015)Applied linguists should strive to ensure that the tests they design and use are not only fair and socially acceptable, but also have positive effects – this, in light of the fact that tests can sometimes have far-reaching ...
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(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This study explores a transformative method to revise an academic literacy study guide in a Humanities faculty in South Africa. The methodology includes a critical literature review, positioning the study within the ...
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(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-10)Over the past thirty years, the educational applications of subtitling, such as incidental language learning, improved literacy, and comprehension and retention of visual content, have been well documented. Seminal studies ...
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(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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Creating “transdisciplinary spaces” for a real-world scenario : a practical teaching collaboration (South African Association for Language Teaching, 2017-06)A lack of transfer of academic literacy competencies was identified by academic literacy and Statistics lecturers involved in an extended programme course. This paper reports on one attempt at a workable collaborative ...
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(MDPI, 2025-04-29)This study proposes Tewahedo epistemology, an Ethiopian knowledge sys‑ tem grounded in the Ge’ez language, as a decolonial framework for re‑visualizing aca‑ demic literacy in higher education. Tewahedo, meaning “oneness” ...
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(NISC, 2009)As a consideration in the design of a test of academic literacy, the face validity of such a test is determined by its perceived suitability and usefulness in addressing the literacy requirements of specific academic ...
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Designing linguistically flexible scaffolding for subject-specific academic literacy interventions (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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(The International Journal of Literacies, 2025-01-16)South Africa has enjoyed post-apartheid democratic freedom for thirty years. However, three decades after apartheid’s legal end, institutions of higher learning still grapple with a significant crisis of student attrition. ...
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(Common Ground Research Networks, 2021-09)This study aims to identify the efficacy of social factors in the ways that first-year science students attempt to argue. Argumentation is an essential tool used to produce scientific knowledge. As a linguistic phenomenon, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The reading crisis in South Africa is well-documented by now, and the implications of poor reading proficiencies can be observed in the limited outcomes and high attrition rates at primary, secondary and tertiary educational ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009)The main purpose of the research was to investigate the effectiveness of genre-based approaches in teaching academic writing. The study was motivated by the researcher's perceptions about university students' difficulty ...
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(Unisa Press, 2013)Die artikel stel dit ten doel om verbande te ondersoek tussen die leesgedrag van ’n aantal eerstejaarstudente aan die Universiteit van Pretoria en hulle taal- en akademiese geletterdheidsvaardighede. Die studente is getoets ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-09-11)Academic writing is generally regarded as the most important communication medium through which people in the tertiary academic context choose to communicate their ideas. It is also well known that it is sometimes an arduous ...
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(Higher Education South Africa, 2018)The following theoretical analysis aimed to highlight perceived, conceptual differences between constructivist and realist ontologies as meta-theories for approaching students’ well-being in institutions of higher learning; ...
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(South African Association for Language Teaching, 2017)Academic literacy interventions are becoming increasingly important in a country where the secondary education system no longer adequately prepares students for the literacy demands of higher education. This article ...
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(Stellenbosch University, Library and Information Service, 2016)Considering the vast array of academic literacy interventions that are presented both nationally and internationally, and the resources required to present these interventions, it is becoming increasingly important for ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009)Over the past years, there has been a consistent call from Government and industry for South African tertiary institutions to deliver more graduates in the fields of science and technology. This, however, is no mean feat ...
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(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-04)Persistent South African dialogue around curricula decoloniality and epistemic pluralism in the higher education system evolves. However, an unresolved question between decolonial and global citizenship education advocates ...
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