Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Subject "academic literacy"

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    • Academic acculturation: the case of writing in an EFL teaching and learning environment 

      Gasiorek, Jessica; Van de Poel, Kris (SAALT/SAVTO, 2012)
      The transition from secondary to tertiary education is not just a change of physical environment, but it is also a change of culture. It has been shown that first year students' academic performance and their motivation ...

    • Academic literacy of South African higher education level students: does vocabulary size matter? 

      Nizonkiza, Déogratias; Van Dyk, Tobie (University of Stellenbosch, 2015)
      This study explores the extent to which vocabulary size matters in academic literacy. Participants (first-year students at North-West University) were administered the Vocabulary Levels Test (Schmitt, Schmitt and Clapham ...

    • Improving academic literacy by teaching collocations 

      Nizonkiza, Déogratias (Stellenbosch University Library and Information Science, 2017)
      This study explores the effect of teaching collocations on building academic vocabulary and hence improving academic writing abilities. A pre-/post-test experimental design was used to analyse collocations produced in two ...

    • Reading ability and academic acculturation: the case of South African students entering higher education 

      Van Dyk, Tobie; Van de Poel, Kris; Van der Slik, Frans (Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2013)
      First-year students experience a range of challenges when transferring from secondary to higher education (HE) (cf. Darlaston-Jones et al. 2003, Leki 2006, Brinkworth et al. 2009). This is no different in South Africa, ...

    • Yes/No/Maybe: a boolean attempt at feedback 

      Louw, H.; Van Rooy, B. (South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT), 2010)
      This paper describes an experiment in which Boolean feedback (a kind of checklist) was used to provide feedback on the paragraph structures of first year students in an Academic Literacy course. We begin by introducing the ...