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Carstens, Adelia (University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2019)There appears to be a weak alignment between manuals on using hand gestures in oral presentations, theoretical sources on gesture production, and empirical studies on dimensions of gesture processing and use. Much of the ...
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Carstens, Adelia (South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT), 2013-12)This contribution enters into dialogue with studies conducted both at school and university level on the effectiveness of interaction between subject teachers and language teachers to improve learners’ subject-specific ...
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Carstens, Adelia (Ensovoort Society, 2007)The article reports on a research project that was aimed at determining differences in picture comprehension between literate and low-literate audiences in the context of HIV and AIDS. Structured interviews were held with ...
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Immelman, Susan; Carstens, Adelia; Smith, S.; Masenge, Andries (Higher Education South Africa, 2020-03)While great strides have been made to improve accessibility to higher education in South Africa, successful completion of bachelor's degrees within the prescribed time remains a challenge. Research suggests that a lack ...
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Carstens, Adelia (Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2016-09-29)BACKGROUND : In the construction industry, there is an increased awareness of the importance of soft skills. However, no empirical studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of pedagogical strategies in higher ...
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Carstens, Adelia; Eiselen, Roald (Routledge, 2019)This article provides an overview of the process and initial outcomes of designing a multilingual corpus of academic texts produced by university students with different mother tongues in South Africa, with a view to making ...
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Designing linguistically flexible scaffolding for subject-specific academic literacy interventions Carstens, Adelia (University of Stellenbosch, Education Faculty, Department of Curriculum Studies, 2016)The majority of South African universities are faced with the challenge of teaching subject-specific academic literacy in English to linguistically diverse student groups, while the academic literacy lecturers themselves ...
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Carstens, Adelia; Rambiritch, Avasha (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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Brandt, Mandie; Carstens, Adelia (NISC, 2005)This article demonstrates, through critical analysis, how words and pictures are manipulated in 'The Beauty of Sport', a regular feature section in SA Sports Illustrated (henceforth SASI), to construe images of sportswomen ...
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Carstens, Adelia (University of Pretoria, 2009)The main purpose of the research was to investigate the effectiveness of genre-based approaches in teaching academic writing. The study was motivated by the researcher's perceptions about university students' difficulty ...
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Carstens, Adelia (University of Stellenbosch Institute for Language Teaching, 2008)Increasing evidence from corpus, discourse and genre analysis has indicated that there is significant variation between disciplines in the way that they structure their discourses, in particular their written genres. ...
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Carstens, Adelia (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2013)During recent years the reading and writing of literacy self-narratives has received renewed attention in Higher Education. Of particular interest are the ways in which these narratives reflect the literacy identities ...
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Carstens, Adelia (De Gruyter, 2015-07)This article reports on a study of pre-service teachers’ literacy narratives in a South African institution of higher learning. Literacy self-narratives of 57 students were collected and analysed for categories and themes ...
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Carstens, Adelia (South African Asociation for Language Teaching, 2008)Genre approaches to academic writing are still enjoying wide support among pedagogues and applied linguists in the UK, US and Australia. However, genrebased pedagogies have been widely criticised for their explicit teaching ...
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Carstens, Adelia (Unisa Press, 2008)The article reports on a research project aimed at identifying salient written genres and text types/rhetorical modes in the Faculty of Humanities at a large university in Gauteng, South Africa. The main purpose of the ...
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Carstens, Adelia; Fletcher, Lizelle (NISC, 2009)Discipline- and genre-specific approaches in language teaching have gained much support in recent years. However, few studies have thus far evaluated the effect of courses resulting from narrow-angled approaches. This ...
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Rol van handgebare in oudiovisuele aanbiedings van teologiestudente : belyning van teorie en praktyk Carstens, Adelia (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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Smith, Sonnette; Carstens, Adelia; Stainbank, Lesley (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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Carstens, Adelia; Rambiritch, Avasha (South African Association for Language Teaching, 2020-06)A variety of factors influence the strategies and practices of writing teachers and tutors, such as beliefs about writing and how writing can be learned; following mandates by educational authorities; uncritical adherence ...
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Carstens, Adelia (Routledge, 2016-07)The purpose of the article is to report on a project aimed at exploring the use of translanguaging as a strategy to support bi-/multilingual students in acquiring academic literacy in English while promoting the ...
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