Academic Biliteracies

Multilingual Repertoires in Higher Education

By: Dr. David M. Palfreyman (Editor), Christa van der Walt (Editor)

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eBook | 2 March 2017 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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This book is an innovative academic literacy resource for professionals who are investigating how to create language resources and implement pedagogical strategies in order to develop balanced academic biliteracy. A major strength of this book is the emphasis that it places on meeting the multilingual academic needs of university student populations despite the strong influence of language-centered ideologies (e.g., academic English only) that negatively impact the use of minority languages in tertiary education settings.