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Browsing Research Articles (Unit for Academic Literacy) by Type "Preprint Article"
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Kruger-Roux, Helena; Angu, Pineteh
(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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Eybers, Oscar Oliver; Kruger-Roux, Helena
(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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Eybers, Oscar Oliver
(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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Von Fintel, Celeste; Eybers, Oscar Oliver
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-07)
This study critically reflects on the effectiveness of a new hybrid curriculum implemented in a heavily populated academic literacy module aimed at first-year students from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences ...
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Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah; Adika, Gordon Senanu
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-12)
Students’ literacy levels, in particular their academic reading and writing, have been an area of concern in education for many years. Students who have high academic reading and writing proficiency are usually successful ...
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Angu, Pineteh; Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah; Eybers, Oscar Oliver
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-02)
bstract: This article explores the concept of decolonization and its implications for the teaching of academic literacy in the Unit for Academic Literacy at a South African university. It draws on existing literature on ...