Academic biliteracies : multilingual repertoires in higher education / edited by David M. Palfreyman and Christa van der Walt.

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Book
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English
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  • Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2017]
  • ©2017
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ix, 224 pages ; 24 cm.

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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. Book jacket.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: Biliteracies in Higher Education / David M. Palfreyman, Christa van der Walt
    • '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 / Tracey Costley
    • Academic Biliteracy in College: Borderland Undergraduate Engineering Students' Mobilization of Semiotic Resources / Alberto Esquinca, Erika Mein, Elsa Q. Villa, Angélica Monárrez
    • Translanguaging in University Literacy Practice: Bilingual Collaboration Around English Texts / Catherine M. Mazak, A.J. Rivera, Lauren Pérez Mangonéz
    • Surfacing and Valuing Students' Linguistic Resources in an English-Dominant University / Ellen Hurst, Mbulungeni Madiba, Shannon Morreira
    • Translation Narratives: Engaging Multilingual Learners in Translingual Writing Practices / Julia E. Kiernan
    • Affirming the Biliteracy of University Students: Provision of Multilingual Lecture Resources at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa / Bassey E. Antia, Charlyn Dyers
    • Creative Collaboration in Higher Education: A Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Case Study / Gwawr Ifan, Rhian Hodges
    • Bilingual Academic Literacies for Chinese Language Teachers / Danping Wang
    • Biliteracy as Policy in Academic Institutions / Beverly Baker, David M. Palfreyman, Gwenn Hiller, Wilson Poha, Zina Manu
    • Afterword: Moving Forward with Academic Biliteracy Research / Guillaume Gentil.
    ISBN
    • 9781783097418 ((hbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 1783097418 ((hbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9781783097401 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 178309740X ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016046328
    OCLC
    961801905
    Other standard number
    • 40026971218
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