Naming students problems: an analysis of language-related discourses at a South African university

Title: Naming students problems: an analysis of language-related discourses at a South African university
Creator: Boughey, Chrissie
Date Issued: 2002
Date: 2002
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6086
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008484
Identifier: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13562510220144798
Description: This article examines a number of discourses that construct students 'problems' as they engage with tertiary study at a historically black South African university. These dominant discourses are then linked to Street's 'autonomous' model of literacy and Rampton's 'autonomous' model of applied linguistics in order to interrogate their ideological biases. Implications of the discourses for the provision of epistemological access to tertiary study are then explored. The article ends by indicating how a 'literacy across the curriculum' approach to working with students' difficulties could provide an alternative to current 'remedial' programmes.
Format: 24 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Boughey, C. (2002) 'Naming' students' problems: an analysis of language-related discourses at a South African university. Teaching in Higher Education, 7 (3). pp. 295-307. ISSN 1356-2517. Available: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13562510220144798

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