Academic literacy and the languages of change /

This book is an analysis of student literacy in an academic setting, and how this has changed due to political, economic and social factors. The contributors, who are all engaged in academic literacy work at a South African university, use the theoretical tradition of New Literacy Studies as develop...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Thesen, Lucia, Van Pletzen, Ermien
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2006.
Temas:
Literacy > South Africa.
Sociolinguistics > South Africa.
Students > South Africa > Language.
Sociolinguistique > Afrique du Sud.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
Literacy
Sociolinguistics
Students > Language
South Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: The politics of place in academic literacy work; 1 Discourses of English and literacy in a Western Cape township school; 2 'Use your own words'
  • impossible exhortations; 3 'I want to write about the Dalai Lama ... ': Literacies in transition; 4 Intertextual analysis: a research tool for uncovering the writer's emerging meanings; 5 A body of reading: making 'visible' the reading experiences of first-year medical students; 6 Change as additive: harnessing students' multimodal semiotic resources in an Engineering curriculum.

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