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Browsing Unit for Academic Literacy by Type "Postprint Article"
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Applying Ayittey’s Indigenous African Institutions to generate epistemic plurality in the curriculum (AOSIS, 2019-06-24)BACKGROUND : South Africa’s institutions of higher learning are currently experiencing a dispensation in which calls for curricula transformation and decolonisation reverberate. While the need for ...
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(Sage, 2023-01)The purpose of this investigation is to frame Global North colonialism in southern and eastern Africa as ontological appropriation. In the article’s conceptual framework, ontological appropriation is colonial claims to ...
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Cultural entanglement, displacement and contemporary Durban in Imraan Coovadia’s High Low In-between (Routledge, 2023)This article focuses on Imraan Coovadia’s High Low In-between and investigates how the novel’s join protagonists, Nafisa and Shakeer, navigate their contemporary Durban. The mother and son, I point out, present two disparate ...
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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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(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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(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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(Sage, 2024-03)The purpose of this article is to critically consider the roles that academic literacy facilitators fulfil in exposing students to Global Citizenship Education (GCE). In university disciplines, literacies are primary tools ...
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(Unisa Press, 2008)The article reports on a research project aimed at identifying salient written genres and text types/rhetorical modes in the Faculty of Humanities at a large university in Gauteng, South Africa. The main purpose of the ...
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(NISC, 2009)Discipline- and genre-specific approaches in language teaching have gained much support in recent years. However, few studies have thus far evaluated the effect of courses resulting from narrow-angled approaches. This ...
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(Wiley, 2018-04)This article discusses how violence between South Africans and Somali migrants plays out in different forms of spatial contestation, victimization and resistance during xenophobic attacks. It analyses Somalis’ entrepreneurial ...
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(Emerald, 2021-11)PURPOSE : This paper aims to explore the individual and social learning experiences of first-year accounting students studying in English as an additional language. The challenges of these students relating to listening, ...
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(Routledge, 2016-07)The purpose of the article is to report on a project aimed at exploring the use of translanguaging as a strategy to support bi-/multilingual students in acquiring academic literacy in English while promoting the ...
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(NISC, 2006)This article reports on a research project aimed at determining the scope and nature of differences in picture comprehension between literate and low-literate audiences in the context of HIV and AIDS. Structured interviews ...
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