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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"academic literacies"”.
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Academic literacies in policy and practice
… policies. In this thesis, I investigate how academic literacy practices (in particular reading and writing practices) are constructed in policy documents, in interviews with both students and lecturers, which include talk around texts written by students. I explore the academic literacy …
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Academic Literacies as Documenting Becoming Through Mixed Genre Texts
… in turn, led me to investigate the literature on academics who experience problems with representing, and on models of writing in higher education. However, the literature does not locate either the problem of representing or its resolution in the practices of academics struggling to write about …
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An exploration of students from the African diaspora negotiating academic literacies
… of ideological and ethnographic approaches to academic literacies research, the thesis highlights power relations involved in a range of life experiences, social practices and institutional power relations. The study offers a complex reading of the student experience focusing on the negotiation …
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A socio-cultural approach to higher education students' experiences with academic literacies
… is an exploration of students' engagement with academic literacies. The study is based on interview data, visual material and objects brought to these interviews by five students on an Education Studies undergraduate degree course. Drawing from the theoretical frame of New Literacy Studies, …
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Academic Literacies Study of Personal Statements for Higher Education: Students’ and academics’ interpretations and assumptions across institutional contexts
… features of the PS itself. I have drawn on an academic literacies perspective (Lea & Street, 1998; Street, 2004) that considers issues of meaning-making, writer identity that students bring to the act of writing, and writing and evaluation practices within a particular institutional and …
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Expanding the repertoires of practice of multilingual science student teachers through a decolonial approach to academic literacies at an elite English medium university
… Africa to respond to a heterogenous language and literacies context where multilingualism is the norm and where school conditions may shift rapidly is urgent. However, students arrive at university with varying resources and some, due to historical inequality, may not be able to meet the academic …
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Crossing Borders: An Academic Literacies Approach to the Study of M.A. Thesis Writing on English Studies Programmes in an Italian and a Hungarian University.
This thesis is an investigation of academic literacy practices on postgraduate English Studies programmes in two different national contexts in Europe, Hungary and Italy. It examines the transnational comparability of university qualifications in relation to the Bologna Declaration, which currently …
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Establishing an academic identity: Second language writers and the institution.
This study takes an academic literacies approach to writing and draws on the principles of a Critical Applied Linguistic approach to language. It aims to examine international postgraduate students' experiences of academic writing in the UK, with particular reference to their experience of trying …
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When police become postgraduates : an intertextual analysis of research proposals in the MTech Policing degree at an ODL university
… poses the question: How do professional and academic discourse practices amongst MTech Policing postgraduate students intersect in the research proposal at an Open Distance Learning (ODL) institution? The research proposal is chosen as the site for investigation because it is a contested, …
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An Exploration of Practice Surrounding Student Writing in the Disciplines in UK Higher Education from the Perspectives of Academic Teachers
… aims to contribute to our understanding of academic literacies in the UK context by exploring the practices of subject-based academic teachers around student writing through the lens of teachers’ experiences. Empirical work has yielded a great deal of insight in recent years into students’ …
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CRITICAL PEDAGOGY IN URBAN SCHOOLING: A GUIDE FOR CLASSROOM PRAXIS
… liberating opportunities to achieve critical and academic literacies. Theories of liberation, freedom, democracy, justice, power, oppression, transformation, community-building, humanization, authority, dialogue, agency, instructional ideology, social reproduction, standards, curriculum, culture, …
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Out of sight, out of mind: an exploration of the development of feedback literacies under the context of lockdown, and the shift to distance learning in 3rd year english course at the University of the Western Cape
… has never been truer than in the present academic climate (Moses, 2020). The persistence of the global pandemic, COVID-19, prolonged mandatory online learning and teaching, which took place in isolation from the academic community, and restricted educational interaction with various online …
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Lectures in transition : a study of communicative practices in the humanities in a South African university
… Conceptually the study is rooted in the academic literacies field within the New Literacy Studies with its interest in the politics of student access to valued textual practices. The study draws from the following complementary traditions: a) theories of dialogic co-presence (Bakhtin, …
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Reading, Writing, and Belonging: A Qualitative Study Exploring Academic Self-Efficacy Among First-Year, First-Generation Students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
… Institution (HSI) perceive their academic self-efficacy for reading and writing. The study focuses on students who were concurrently enrolled in a First-Year Seminar (FYS) course and a developmental literacy course. Grounded in Bandura’s (1986, 1998) social cognitive theory, …
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Learning the language of academic engineering: Sociocognitive writing in graduate students
… engineering graduate programs rarely require academic writing courses, the indicators of merit in academic engineering, such as journal publications, successful grants, and doctoral milestones (e.g. theses, dissertations) are based in effective written argumentation and disciplinary discourse. …
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Learning journeys with international Masters students in UK higher education.
… in adjusting to a startlingly different UK academic discourse within a short time. Little research has been conducted into these challenges and successful transition strategies. A review of learning development literature identified a set of three models, which has not been related …
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Refugee college students acquiring academic literacy: an exploration of how their views of academic literacy impact the process
… was to first, examine the difference between the academic literacy definition and views of the involuntary immigrant college students and the academic literacy definition and views of the hosting country; and second, to examine how these students acquire academic literacy over the course of one …
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A writerly trajectory: reflections on published classroom resources for learners of English and students of academic writing
… chapters and eight articles from peer-reviewed academic journals. Arising from my practice as a teacher and university lecturer in teaching English as a second/foreign language and academic literacies, the key theme is the production of classroom resources or approaches for promoting language …
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A comparative analysis of academic literacy specifications for a standardised test and academic literacy requirements for reading and writing in a range of disciplinary contexts
… identify students who might require additional academic support and for placements onto appropriate higher education programmes of study. This study explored academic literacy as a construct for standardised tests in comparison with the kinds of literacies required for reading and writing for …
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Student writing in social work education
… of social work students undertaking assessed academic writing as part of their professional training through distance learning in the UK in 2001. Drawing upon the concept of 'academic literacies' and informed by a psychosocial approach, this thesis explores the nature of students' writing …
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