Carstens, Adelia; Fletcher, Lizelle(South African Asociation for Language Teaching, 2009)
In tertiary education settings it is imperative for students to move confidently between the academic discourses of a variety of disciplines. Thus, it is merited to aim writing interventions at genres that straddle ...
Departing from a socio-constructivist perspective, the main purpose of the research on
which this article reports was to indicate the effectiveness of both discipline-specific and generic
approaches in teaching academic ...
This article reports on an analysis of academic essays written by two groups of second-year university students: one group with History as a major, and a mixed group. The analyses focused on key features representing each ...
According to the Policy on Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education Qualifications (2011),
the acquisition of academic literacies lays the foundation for effective learning in higher education.
However, one of the major ...
Carstens, Adelia(South African Association for Language Teaching, 2012)
The purpose of this paper is to propose a
framework that might serve as a foundation
for designing and developing academic literacy curricula for pre-service teachers. First,
the main challenges that face course designers ...
