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Cultivating the soft skills of future construction managers through restorying construction workers’ career narratives

open access: yesThe Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2016
Background: In the construction industry, there is an increased awareness of the importance of soft skills. However, no empirical studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of pedagogical strategies in higher education to improve the soft skills of
Adelia Carstens
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Investigating English First Additional Language educators’ reading comprehension practices in selected schools in Gauteng, South Africa

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Education, 2022
Educators’ reading comprehension instructional practices have been identified as 1 of the factors that contribute to learners’ poor reading comprehension performance.
Tilla Olifant, MP Cekiso, Naomi Boakye
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An information literacy integration model and its application in higher education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present a model for curricular integration of information literacy for undergraduate programs in higher education.
Wang, Li
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Literacy practices: using the literacies for learning in further education framework to analyse literacy practices on a post-compulsory education and training teacher education programme [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The Literacies for learning in further education framework describes nine aspects of a literacy practice that elaborate the basic questions of what?, why?, who?, and how? that are needed to understand and describe literacy practices.
Edwards, Martyn
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A heuristic framework for voice instruction at the doctoral level

open access: yesStellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2018
The notion of voice as an integral aspect of language use has been extensively theorised in linguistics. However, empirical research and pedagogical models have not yet matched the sophistication of voice theories in linguistics, and little attention has
Olivier, Alet, Carstens, Adelia
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A review of academic literacy research development: from 2002 to 2019

open access: yesAsian-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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Designing Information Literacy Instruction for Adult Learners

open access: yes, 2015
An issue currently facing many academic librarians involves the challenge of designing information literacy instruction for nontraditional students, particularly adult learners.
Rhoden, Laura
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�Academic Literacies: Intereses Locales, Preocupaciones Globales? Academic Literacies: Local Interests, Global Concerns? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This chapter has three key aims. The first is to discuss Academic Literacies as a particular orientation to writing and writing pedagogy in terms of epistemology, ideology and methodology and to summarise the key contributions of such an approach to date.
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Exploring behaviour in the online environment: student perceptions of information literacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The aim of this paper is to show how information literacy can be conceptualised as a key learning process related to discipline and academic maturity, rather than as a generic skill. Results of a small-scale study including questionnaires and observation
Oliver, Martin, Smith, Janice
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