Browsing by Subject "Academic literacy"
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Academic communications skills: where to from here?
(IFE Centre for Psychological Studies (ICPS), 2016)Academic communication skills or academic literacies have been, since their inception after the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994, been aimed at assisting to achieve the broader goals of a restorative democracy ... -
An "enlightening course that empowers first years"?: a holistic assessment of the impact of a first-year academic literacy course
(Elsevier, 2017)This article reports on a study which assessed the impact of an academic literacy course on students' academic literacy levels. A combination of instruments suggested in an evaluation design by Fouché, Van Dyk and Butler ... -
Assessing the impact of academic literacy interventions in higher education : an evaluation design
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)Responsibly designing academic literacy interventions is becoming increasingly important in a higher education environment where resources for student development are scarce. Providing proof of the effectiveness of such ... -
Curriculum decolonisation and Revisionist Pedagogy of African Customary Law
(PER/PELJ, 2019)Fees-related protests in South African universities have pushed the decolonisation of the law curriculum to the front burner of academic discourse. As part of the curriculum, African customary law was marginalised in the ... -
Discipline-specific versus generic academic literacy intervention for university education: an issue of impact?
(South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT) / Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Taalonderrig (SAVTO), 2013)In a context where progressively more underprepared students gain access to higher education, South African universities are obligated to offer appropriate support to such students that may reduce their risk in being ... -
Discipline–specific versus generic academic literacy intervention for university education: An issue of impact?
((SAALT/SAVTO) South African Association of Language Teaching / Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Taalonderrig // Sabinet(SAALT/SAVTO) South African Association of Language Teaching / Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Taalonderrig // Sabinet, 2013)In a context where progressively more underprepared students gain access to higher education, South African universities are obligated to offer appropriate support to such students that may reduce their risk in being ... -
The effect of an academic literacy course on first-year student writing : a case study
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)Worldwide and in South Africa it seems that various perceptions exist regarding first-year university students who are not academically literate and struggle to produce acceptable forms of academic writing. Standardized ... -
Enhancing the visual literacy of first-year students by means of self-directed multimodal mobile learning
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)The concept of literacy has progressively developed over time. The latest changes were mainly driven by the affordances offered by technology. Even though the basic literacy skills of reading and writing have not disappeared, ... -
Die gebruik van metadiskoers in Afrikaans T1–skryfwerk van eerstejaar–universiteitstudente
(North-West University, 2014)Students’ argumentative writing is substandard in the sense that the necessary relations, amongst other things, are not indicated in their texts. These texts also often lack an author’s voice. In a module such as academic ... -
(Her)stelwerk: skoolopstelle as voorbereiding vir akademiese geletterdheid op universiteitsvlak
(SAALT/SAVTO, 2012)This article explores the gap between school and university writing in terms of creative writing done at school level, as specified in the relevant policy documents and the requirements of academic literacy at university. ...