Academic Literacy and the Languages of Change

by Lucia Thesen (Editor), ErmienVanPletzen (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $45.71

  Offers an analysis of student literacy in an academic setting, and how this has changed due to political, economic and social factors. This book probes some of the limitations by looking at the complex interactions taking place between students' diverse language and educational histories, their literacy practices, and institutional discourses.

• New

  Hardcover
  2006

  $293.64

  Offers an analysis of student literacy in an academic setting, and how this has changed due to political, economic and social factors. This book uses the theoretical tradition of New Literacy Studies, and applies this to a case study of one university in the changing context of South Africa.