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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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A review of academic literacy research development: from 2002 to 2019

Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
Academic literacy as an embodiment of higher-order language and thinking skills within the academic community bears huge significance for language socialization, resource distribution and even power disposition within the larger sociocultural context ...
Dongying Li
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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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The role of emotional intelligence in EFL learners’ academic literacy development [PDF]

Heliyon, 2023
Yang L, Duan M.
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Exploring the complexities of transnationalism: The temporality, the family, and the host language – An empirical study

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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Instructional Design to Promote Translingual Practices in an English First Additional Language Context

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, Helena Kruger-Roux   +1 more
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Using role play and explicit strategy instruction to improve first-year students’ academic reading proficiency

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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“We Speak Pidgin!” – Family Language Policy as the Telling Case for Translanguaging Spaces and Monolingual Ideologies

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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