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Rethinking Academic Literacies

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2013
AbstractThis manuscript introduces a multidimensional framework for academic literacies to help instructors become more aware of different aspects of literacies and how they might be used to plan and orchestrate meaningful, multifaceted literacy experiences in their classes.
Kiili, Carita, Mäkinen, Marita, Coiro, Julie   +2 more
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Multilingual Academic Literacies

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 2015
As the population of Higher Education (HE) becomes decidedly more multilingual, HE instructors struggle with how to address the Englishes produced in high stakes academic writing. In this paper, we endeavor to unveil a practice-based understanding of how multilinguals can be pedagogically supported in their production of texts in a space in-between ...
S. Michael-Luna, Suresh Canagarajah
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Identifying Digital Literacies to Build Academic Literacies

Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2019
Many students matriculate into college feeling confident in their abilities to make meaning when using digital devices, though recent research suggests these students are not necessarily digitally ...
David C. Caverly, Emily M. Payne, Amarilis M. Castillo, Amber Sarker, Elizabeth Threadgill, Daniel West   +5 more
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Researching Academic Literacies

2018
This chapter discusses how three theoretical perspectives of learning to use written language in academic domains each frame a logic of inquiry for conducting research. The first perspective, academic literacy, focuses on identification and acquisition of underlying, autonomous, cognitive processes and strategies associated with expert use of written ...
David Bloome, Gilcinei T. Carvalho, Sanghee Ryu   +2 more
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Teaching Academic Literacy

1999
Teaching Academic Literacy provides a unique outlook on a first-year writing program's evolution by bringing together a group of related essays that analyze, from various angles, how theoretical concepts about writing actually operate in real students' writing.
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Developing Academic Literacy

2010
Contents: George Blue: Developing Academic Literacy: Introduction - Christopher Brumfit: Literacy or Literacies? Academic Identities in a Language-Sharing World - Sian Preece: The Positioning of Learners and Educators in Discourses associated with Academic Literacy - Joan Turner: Supporting Academic Literacy: Issues of Proofreading and Language ...
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Relationships between academic literacy support, student retention and academic performance

Nurse Education in Practice, 2019
Retention and the academic success of nursing students remains a high priority in Australian and global higher education. This study examines an embedded academic support strategy, provided by Professional Communication Academic Literacy (PCAL) support staff, and undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing student uptake of the support. It reports on the profile
Paul J. Glew, Lucie M. Ramjan, Mandy Salas, Katherine Raper, Heidi Creed, Yenna Salamonson   +5 more
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Researching academic literacy metaphors

2015
The particular interest of the researchers has been to identify the dominant metaphorical views of literacy. We begin the chapter by introducing and describing a content-valid instrument for collecting school and life metaphors that has a long research history with cross-cultural populations and established validity.
Donita Shaw, Marc Mahlios
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Circulating tumor DNA in advanced solid tumors: Clinical relevance and future directions

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2021
Michael L Cheng, Glenn J Hanna, Heather A Parsons   +2 more
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Defining and Assessing Academic Literacy

2015
We move now to consider the construct of academic literacy. On the face of it, this concept has a large overlap with academic language proficiency, except for the specific focus on reading and writing that is indicated by the term ‘literacy’; however, on closer inspection the overlap turns out to be both more and less, depending on which perspective on
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