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Assessing Academic Literacy in a Multilingual Society: Transition and Transformation

Assessing Academic Literacy in a Multilingual Society: Transition and Transformation

Weideman, Albert
Read, John
Du Plessis, Theo

Hardcover

Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education, Book 84

LinguisticsGeneral Education

ISBN10: 178892620X
ISBN13: 9781788926201
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: Nov 2 2020
Pages: 245
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

South African universities face major challenges in meeting the needs of their students in the area of academic language and literacy. The dominant medium of instruction in the universities is English and, to a much lesser extent, Afrikaans, but only a minority of the national population are native speakers of these languages. Nine other languages can be media of instruction in schools, which makes the transition to tertiary education difficult enough in itself for students from these schools. The focus of this book is on procedures for assessing the academic language and literacy levels and needs of students, not in order to exclude students from higher education but rather to identify those who would benefit from further development of their ability in order to undertake their degree studies successfully. The volume also aims to bring the innovative solutions designed by South African educators to a wider international audience.

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