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Academic Biliteracies : Multilingual Repertoires in Higher Education / ed. by David M. Palfreyman, Christa van der Walt.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Bilingual Education & BilingualismPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781783097418
  • 9781783097425
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 404.2
LOC classification:
  • P57.C6 A324 2017
  • P57.C6 .A233 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Biliteracies in Higher Education -- 2. 'No Way, I Could Never Write My Essays in Cantonese. I Only Know How to Do It in English': Understanding Undergraduate Students' Languages and Literacies at a Hong Kong University -- 3. Academic Biliteracy in College: Borderland Undergraduate Engineering Students' Mobilization of Semiotic Resources -- 4. Translanguaging in University Literacy Practice: Bilingual Collaboration Around English Texts -- 5. Surfacing and Valuing Students' Linguistic Resources in an English-Dominant University -- 6. Translation Narratives: Engaging Multilingual Learners in Translingual Writing Practices -- 7. Affirming the Biliteracy of University Students: Provision of Multilingual Lecture Resources at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa -- 8. Creative Collaboration in Higher Education: A Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Case Study -- 9. Bilingual Academic Literacies for Chinese Language Teachers -- 10. Biliteracy as Policy in Academic Institutions -- 11. Afterword: Moving Forward with Academic Biliteracy Research -- Index
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781783097425

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Biliteracies in Higher Education -- 2. 'No Way, I Could Never Write My Essays in Cantonese. I Only Know How to Do It in English': Understanding Undergraduate Students' Languages and Literacies at a Hong Kong University -- 3. Academic Biliteracy in College: Borderland Undergraduate Engineering Students' Mobilization of Semiotic Resources -- 4. Translanguaging in University Literacy Practice: Bilingual Collaboration Around English Texts -- 5. Surfacing and Valuing Students' Linguistic Resources in an English-Dominant University -- 6. Translation Narratives: Engaging Multilingual Learners in Translingual Writing Practices -- 7. Affirming the Biliteracy of University Students: Provision of Multilingual Lecture Resources at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa -- 8. Creative Collaboration in Higher Education: A Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Case Study -- 9. Bilingual Academic Literacies for Chinese Language Teachers -- 10. Biliteracy as Policy in Academic Institutions -- 11. Afterword: Moving Forward with Academic Biliteracy Research -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)

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