- Title
- Improving academic literacy at higher education
- Creator
- Free, Loretta Dianna
- Subject
- Literacy -- Study and teaching (Higher)
- Subject
- Information literacy -- Study and teaching (Higher)
- Subject
- Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Higher)
- Date Issued
- 2008
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MEd
- Identifier
- vital:9531
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/839
- Identifier
- Literacy -- Study and teaching (Higher)
- Identifier
- Information literacy -- Study and teaching (Higher)
- Identifier
- Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Higher)
- Description
- This study is a deliberation on students who advance from high school to a higher education institution, without demonstrating the attributes required on admission. They are granted formal access, despite being underprepared for tertiary studies. One of the qualities that they noticible lack is academic literacy. In the course of this investigation, academics had to relate what their perceptions were of the academic literacy of their students at higher education level. Initially, being literate meant the ability to read and write, but the term literacy has assumed a more varied form. The term multi-literacies is employed now, as there are several forms of literacy. These include, Information Technology, Technology, pictorial and numerical literacies, to name a few. Academic literacy constitutes more than one literacy, namely, operational or functional literacy, cultural literacy and critical literacy. These literacies are elaborated on and the role of language proficiency, together with the inter-relatedness between students' linguistic competence and their cognitive ability are discussed in depth. Alternatives are examined to assess how this problem of the lack of academic literacy can be circumvented and what mechanisms can be put in place in order that students can be assisted in their pursuit of academic literacy.
- Format
- 178 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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