Academic Biliteracies: Multilingual Repertoires in Higher Education

Author:   David M. Palfreyman ,  Christa van der Walt
Publisher:   Channel View Publications Ltd
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9781783097401


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   02 March 2017
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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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Author:   David M. Palfreyman ,  Christa van der Walt
Publisher:   Channel View Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Multilingual Matters
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.368kg
ISBN:  

9781783097401


ISBN 10:   178309740
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   02 March 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"David M. Palfreyman, Christa Van Der Walt: Introduction: Biliteracies in Higher Education 1. Tracey Costley: ""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 2. Alberto Esquinca, Erika Mein, Elsa Q. Villa and Angelica Monarrez: Academic Biliteracy in College: Borderland Undergraduate Engineering Students' Mobilization of Semiotic Resources 3. Catherine Mazak, A.J. Rivera and Lauren E. Perez Mangonez: Translanguaging in University Literacy Practices: Bilingual Collaboration around English Texts 4. Ellen Hurst, Mbulungeni Madiba and Shannon Morreira: Surfacing and Valuing Students' Linguistic Resources in an English-Dominant University 5. Julia E. Kiernan: Translation Narratives: Engaging Multilingual Learners in Translingual Writing Practices 6. Bassey Antia and Charlyn Dyers: Affirming the Biliteracy of University Students: Provision of Multilingual Lecture Resources at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa 7. Gwawr Ifan and Rhian Hodges: Creative Collaboration in Higher Education: A Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Case Study 8. Danping Wang: Bilingual Research Literacy for Chinese Language Teachers 9. Beverly Baker, David M. Palfreyman, Gwenn Hiller, Wilson Poha and Zina Manu: Biliteracy as Policy in Academic Institutions Guillaume Gentil: Afterword: Moving Forward with Academic Biliteracy Research"

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This global tour of multilingualism in higher education reminds us that multilingualism is always embedded in socioeconomic inequalities. However, something can be done about this; and Academic Biliteracies will inspire educators worldwide to pay closer attention to the merits of allowing multilingual students to draw on all their linguistic resources as a strategy to improve educational outcomes for all. Ingrid Piller, Macquarie University, Australia Drawing on an interesting variety of examples from the four corners of the world, this book provides a timely, riveting and original account of different multilingual pedagogical strategies and policy recommendations to better understand and foster student academic biliteracies in higher education. With a focus on student writing, the work moves away from the extant orthodoxy of academic literacies and revisits multilingual teaching and learning practices and language policies under a new and challenging light. Emma Dafouz, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain


This global tour of multilingualism in higher education reminds us that multilingualism is always embedded in socioeconomic inequalities. However, something can be done about this; and Academic Biliteracies will inspire educators worldwide to pay closer attention to the merits of allowing multilingual students to draw on all their linguistic resources as a strategy to improve educational outcomes for all. Ingrid Piller, Macquarie University, Australia


In our globalized world the use of multiple languages to engage with others and wrestle with ideas and concepts is increasingly common in higher education. This volume is an important and timely contribution to understanding the opportunities that the fluid use of more than one language offers teachers, learners and researchers. Betty Leask, La Trobe University, Australia In our globalized world the use of multiple languages to engage with others and wrestle with ideas and concepts is increasingly common in higher education. This volume is an important and timely contribution to understanding the opportunities that the fluid use of more than one language offers teachers, learners and researchers. Betty Leask, La Trobe University, Australia This global tour of multilingualism in higher education reminds us that multilingualism is always embedded in socioeconomic inequalities. However, something can be done about this; and Academic Biliteracies will inspire educators worldwide to pay closer attention to the merits of allowing multilingual students to draw on all their linguistic resources as a strategy to improve educational outcomes for all. Ingrid Piller, Macquarie University, Australia Drawing on an interesting variety of examples from the four corners of the world, this book provides a timely, riveting and original account of different multilingual pedagogical strategies and policy recommendations to better understand and foster student academic biliteracies in higher education. With a focus on student writing, the work moves away from the extant orthodoxy of academic literacies and revisits multilingual teaching and learning practices and language policies under a new and challenging light. Emma Dafouz, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain


Author Information

Author Website:   http://zayed.academia.edu/DavidPalfreyman

David M. Palfreyman is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Zayed University, UAE. His research interests include language, culture and learning in postsecondary education and he is the co-editor of Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Christa van der Walt is Professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her research interests include the role of English in multilingual, academic contexts and she is the author of Multilingual Higher Education (Multilingual Matters, 2013).

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