Academic Literacy and the Languages of Change (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Thesen, Lucia; Pletzen, Ermien van

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847142528
• Artikelnr.: 40775147

Autorenporträt

Lucia Thesen is Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town. Ermien van Pletzen is Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town, and a Mandela Fellow at the W. E. B. du Bois Institute, Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Lucia Thesen (University of Cape Town
South Africa) and Ermien van Pletzen (University of Cape Town
South Africa)  1. 'Use your own words'
Stella Clark 2. Literacies in transition
Bongi Bangeni (University of Cape Town
South Africa) and Rochelle Kapp (University of Cape Town
South Africa) 3. Intertextual analysis: a research tool for uncovering the writer's emerging meanings
Morgan Paxton 4. A body of reading: making 'visible' reading experiences
Ermien van Pletzen (University of Cape Town
South Africa) 5. Change as additive: harnessing students' multimodal semiotic resources
Arlene Archer (University of Cape Town
South Africa) 6. Word
image and authority in the lecture
Lucia Thesen (University of Cape Town
South Africa) 7. Identity
power and discourse: the socio-political self-representations of successful black students at UCT
Gideon Nomdo (University of Cape Town
South Africa) 8. The ESL context: an ethnographic study
Rochelle Kapp (University of Cape Town
South Africa)  Bibliography Index