ACADEMIC BILITERACIES by Christa van der Walt (Editor) ( 9781783097418 )

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ACADEMIC BILITERACIES
MULTILINGUAL REPERTOIRES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

By:

Christa van der Walt (Editor)

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Publisher:

CHANNEL VIEW PUBLICATIONS LTD

Pub. date:

2 March, 2017

Series:

Bilingual Education & Bilingualism

Pages:

240

Description:

This book explores issues surrounding biliteracy in academic contexts. Chapters analyse diverse multilingual contexts where biliteracy practices emerge in response to the demands of academic reading and writing. In addition, strategies are presented to support biliteracy through teaching.

Synopsis:

Research on academic literacy within higher education has focused almost exclusively on the development of academic literacy in English. This book is unique in showing how students use other languages when they engage with written academic content - whether in reading, discussing or writing - and how increasingly multilingual higher education campuses open up the possibility for students to exploit their multilingual repertoires in and around reading/writing for academic purposes. Chapters range from cases of informal student use of different written languages, to pedagogical, institutional and disciplinary strategies leveraging multilingual resources to develop biliteracy. They are ordered according to two dominant themes. The first includes accounts of diverse multilingual contexts where biliteracy practices emerge in response to the demands of academic reading and writing. The second theme focuses on more deliberate attempts to teach biliteracy or to teach in a way that supports biliteracy. The collection will be of interest to researchers, higher education practitioners and students of multilingual higher education and academic literacy.

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Multilingual Matters

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