Academic Literacy And the Languages of Change
Contributors: Lucia Thesen (Editor)
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Published: June 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780826487759
Subjects: Philosophy & Social Aspects; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Education / Teaching; Republic of South Africa; Sociolinguistics; Educational Policy & Reform; Linguistics; Literacy; South Africa; Students
Description: This book is an analysis of student literacy in an academic setting, and how this has changed due to political, economic and social factors. The contributors, who are all engaged in academic literacy work at a South African university, use the theoretical tradition of New Literacy Studies as developed by theorists such as James Gee, Brian Street and Gnnther Kress, and apply this to a case study of one university in the changing context of South Africa. Academic Literacy and the Languages of Change will be of interest to postgraduates and academics researching sociolinguistics, or language and education.