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Inspecting EFL teachers' academic literacy development in multilingual contexts: A global vision [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 Academic literacy, as a representation of required skills in the academic community, has gained increasing prominence and attention over the past decade. It has been the focal point of many studies in different contexts drawing on different perspectives.
Jia Fu, Yongliang Wang
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From Academic Literacy to Critical Literacy:
Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2021 This paper will argue that the dominant imagining of ‘academic literacy’ as an organising framework for English language learning within both public and private universities in India cannot adequately engage with the imperative of social and political ...
Sayan Chaudhuri
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Ampersand, 2021 Transnational living patterns have become increasingly more common. Language is how transnationals ‘forge and sustain multi-stranded social relations that link together their societies of origin and settlement’ (Basch et al.
Tijana Hirsch, Orly Kayam
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Journal of Languages and Language Teaching, 2023 Languages are not set, autonomous, bounded entities whose nature cannot be disrupted; they are flexible entities that can be reformed, re-arranged and recreated to fit into new contexts of communication.
Kufakunesu Zano, Vimbai Mbirimi-Hungwe
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Academic, keyword, and plain English subtitles for natural sciences students: Intralingual views
Transformation in Higher Education, 2023 The study is an analysis of the reaction of students in a faculty of natural and agricultural sciences (NAS) to subtitles and also includes an investigation of their responses thereto.
Elmarie Kruger-Marais +1 more
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Reading & Writing, 2021 Background: Many first-year students find the reading of academic texts to be challenging and overwhelming. In particular, first-year students studying sociology at the South African institution where the study was conducted complain of comprehension ...
Naomi A.Y. Boakye
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Relocalising academic literacy
Learning and Teaching, 2017 This article contributes to the continuing discussion about academic literacy in international higher education. Approaching international study programmes as temporary educational contact zones, marked by a broad diversity in students’ educational and discursive experiences, we examine the negotiation and relocalisation of academic literacy among ...
Nana Clemensen, Lars Holm
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Open Linguistics, 2020 With the increase in global movement, both temporary (travel and transsettlement) and permanent (e/immigration), traditional conceptions of the linguistic processes rooted largely in the long-term translocation(s) or migrations are revisited through the ...
Hirsch Tijana, Kayam Orly
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Literary translation, symbolic development and inclusion in South Africa
Literator, 2021 Post-apartheid South African society remains characterised by significant social asymmetries and the need for development. Yet development should encompass not only meeting people’s material needs to ensure survival, but also the attainment of higher ...
Maricel Botha
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Extended strategy-use instruction to improve students’ reading proficiency in a content subject
Reading & Writing, 2018 Background: Student reading challenges have been reported worldwide. In many classrooms around the world, teaching students appropriate strategy-use has been a technique used to improve comprehension and improve reading proficiency. However, strategy-use
Naomi A.Y. Boakye, Michal-Mare Linden
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