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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The reading crisis in South Africa is well-documented by now, and the implications of poor reading proficiencies can be observed in the limited outcomes and high attrition rates at primary, secondary and tertiary educational ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Mature students’ admission into universities in Ghana is increasing rapidly. Both private and public universities admit students who are 25 years and above through the mature entrance admission process. The language ...
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(Higher Education South Africa, 2022-05-23)Researchers in the field of academic literacy, specifically those focused on the first-year level in universities, are often required to articulate the theoretical framework that informs their critical orientation. In this ...
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(University of the Free State, 2021-09)The reigning orthodoxy in writing centres has been to avoid directive approaches and embrace non-directive approaches to tutoring. Although since the late 1990s various writing centre scholars have debunked this myth, ...
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Rol van handgebare in oudiovisuele aanbiedings van teologiestudente : belyning van teorie en praktyk (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap and Kuns, 2021-12)Communication in the 21st century has become multimodal. A variety of primary modes, including text, narration, movement, colour and sound are also “translated” and delivered in secondary modes through electronic devices. ...
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(South African Association for Language Teaching, 2020)Since the purpose of reading is comprehension, the major goal of reading comprehension instruction is to help learners develop knowledge, skills, and strategies so that they become strategic readers who read for comprehension. ...
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(Common Ground Research Networks, 2021-09)This study aims to identify the efficacy of social factors in the ways that first-year science students attempt to argue. Argumentation is an essential tool used to produce scientific knowledge. As a linguistic phenomenon, ...
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(AOSIS, 2020-08-26)In developing countries, digital media have created uneven nexuses of literacy, power and societal adjustment. Whilst literacy and power have been the subject of much research in South Africa, often supporting a conception ...
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Social realist ontology for analysing BRICS educational governance : a higher education perspective (ACCB Publishing, 2020)This study advocates a social realist ontological framework as an effective, analytical blueprint for identifying problems and solutions in BRICS, educational governance systems; specifically as related to the higher ...
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(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-10)Over the past thirty years, the educational applications of subtitling, such as incidental language learning, improved literacy, and comprehension and retention of visual content, have been well documented. Seminal studies ...
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(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-07)This study critically reflects on the effectiveness of a new hybrid curriculum implemented in a heavily populated academic literacy module aimed at first-year students from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences ...
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(Philosophy Department, University of Pretoria, 2019-07-01)This paper applies a social realist ontology in conceptualising Afrocentric curricula in South African universities. The analysis considers South African media reports related to students' demands for decolonised curricula. ...
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(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-04)Persistent South African dialogue around curricula decoloniality and epistemic pluralism in the higher education system evolves. However, an unresolved question between decolonial and global citizenship education advocates ...
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(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-02)bstract: This article explores the concept of decolonization and its implications for the teaching of academic literacy in the Unit for Academic Literacy at a South African university. It draws on existing literature on ...
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(CSSALL Publishers, 2020)The purpose of this analysis is to highlight first-year science students’ understandings and experiences of ubuntu epistemology in an argumentation-focused academic writing module called LST 110. The data ...
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Applying Ayittey’s Indigenous African Institutions to generate epistemic plurality in the curriculum (AOSIS, 2019-06-24)BACKGROUND : South Africa’s institutions of higher learning are currently experiencing a dispensation in which calls for curricula transformation and decolonisation reverberate. While the need for ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-04-01)In his thesis, “A realist approach towards students’ application of agency, culture and social structures in demonstration of competency in argumentative writing”, the study explored intersectionality between first-year ...
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(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-12)Students’ literacy levels, in particular their academic reading and writing, have been an area of concern in education for many years. Students who have high academic reading and writing proficiency are usually successful ...
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(Emerald, 2021-11)PURPOSE : This paper aims to explore the individual and social learning experiences of first-year accounting students studying in English as an additional language. The challenges of these students relating to listening, ...
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(Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobility in Africa, 2020-05)Violent attacks on African migrants have produced a richer body of knowledge on African transnational migration, xenophobia/Afrophobia, and their intersections with questions of citizenship and autochthony, especially ...