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Integrating Qualitative Research into the Community College Linguistics Course: An Autoethnographic Inquiry

International Journal of Educational Research Open, 2021
This article presents an autoethnographic inquiry of a professor's journey when integrating qualitative research practices into the community college linguistics course.
Tuvi Terry Voorhees, Oksana Vorobel
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The relationship between self-efficacy and reading proficiency of first-year students: An exploratory study

Reading & Writing, 2015
Self-efficacy, which is the belief about one’s ability to perform a task successfully, has been widely acknowledged as important in learning. This affective factor, though not explicitly evident, has been said to play an important role in academic ...
Naomi A.N.Y. Boakye
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Digital media, the body and agency in a South African education institution from the perspective of narrative research

The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2020
In developing countries, digital media have created uneven nexuses of literacy, power and societal adjustment. Whilst literacy and power have been the subject of much research in South Africa, often supporting a conception of digital media as a resource (
William Kelleher
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The value and impact of cross professional collaborations in developing student information and academic literacy skills at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. [PDF]

, 2013
The paper is jointly written by an academic and librarian and discusses the value and impact of two examples of cross professional collaboration at Sheffield Hallam University.
Alison Lahlafi, Diane Rushton
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Applying Ayittey’s Indigenous African Institutions to generate epistemic plurality in the curriculum

Transformation in Higher Education, 2019
Background: South Africa’s institutions of higher learning are currently experiencing a dispensation in which calls for curricula transformation and decolonisation reverberate.
Oscar O. Eybers
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Investigating the learning transfer of genre features and conceptual knowledge from an academic literacy course to business studies: Exploring the potential of dynamic assessment [PDF]

, 2017
Academic literacy courses aim to enable higher education students to participate in their chosen academic fields as fully as possible. However, the extent to which these students transfer the academic skills taught in these courses to their chosen ...
Shrestha, Prithvi N.
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Extensive reading in a tertiary reading programme: Students’ accounts of affective and cognitive benefits

Reading & Writing, 2017
This article reports on the extensive reading (ER) component of a reading intervention programme to improve first-year students’ reading proficiency. To make the intervention more practical and to accelerate improvement, an ER component was included in ...
Naomi A. Boakye
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Ons kyk vanself – Kreatiewe Skryfkuns, konkrete poësie en ’n verset teen skrywersnorme

Literator, 2012
In hierdie artikel word daar gefokus op die kunstenaarsboek Sanity on the line – ’n katalogus van individuele (studente-)werk saamgestel uit ’n snipperdigprojek wat as deel van die kunstenaarsboekprojek Oor die einders van die bladsy uitgestal is.
Leti Kleyn
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The idea of lingual economy

Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2007
A number of philosophical concepts in linguistics may be conceptualised as primitives or founding concepts. Many of these are historically significant; cf. the concepts lingual system; lingual position and sequence, lingual constancy.
A. Weideman
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Ubuntu pedagogy – transforming educational practices in South Africa through an African philosophy: from theory to practice

Inkanyiso, 2021
Education in South Africa, and Africa at large, has always been construed from Eurocentric perspectives despite Africa being rich with indigenous philosophies and knowledge systems such as the Ubuntu philosophy.
Nomlaungelo Ngubane, Manyane Makua
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