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“All these wonderful things”: the place of digital resources in newly qualified English language and literacy teachers' practices, from higher education to high schools

Author: Campbell, Eduard Date: 2021 Understandings of what counts as literacy and of how language is best taught are in considerable flux in the present period. The proliferation of the digital is often cited as a key factor driving this sense of flux. In initial teacher ... Read more
Argument as design: a multimodal approach to academic argument in a digital age

Author: Huang, Cheng-Wen Date: 2015 This study posits that using a range of modes and genres to construct argument can engender different ways of thinking about argument in the academic context. It investigates the potentials and constraints of adopting a multimodal approach ... Read more
Border crossings : how students negotiate cultural borders during digital video production

Author: Cronje, Franci Date: 2010 This thesis explores emerging patterns of communication in student video production and the extent to which such patterns signify cultural border crossings in a South African upper income group school context. The investigation was carried ... Read more
Challenges and potentials for writing centres in South African tertiary institutions

Author: Archer, Arlene Date: 2010 There are many challenges involved in developing and running Writing Centres in tertiary contexts in South Africa. These challenges include recognizing the role Writing Centres need to play in the redress of basic academic literacies. They ... Read more
Clip-art or design: exploring the challenges of multimodal texts for writing centres in higher education

Author: Archer, Arlene Date: 2011 In higher education, genre theorists and academic literacy practitioners have examined evolving genres, but they have not specifically focused on the multimodal nature of texts that students need to produce for assessment purposes. This paper ... Read more
Critical Access to higher education: challenges and goals for South African writing centres.

Author: Archer, Arlene Date: 2007 One of the main challenges involved in developing and running writing centres in tertiary contexts in South Africa is the recognition of the role that writing centres need to play in the redress of basic academic literacy competencies. Related ... Read more
Cultural studies meets academic literacies: exploring students resources through symbolic objects

Author: Archer, Arlene Date: 2008 This paper reflects on a first year communication project in a South African engineering foundation programme which attempted to bring a cultural studies perspective to the teaching of academic literacy practices. In the project, students ... Read more
Dealing with multimodal assignments in writing centres

Author: Archer, Arlene Date: 2011 We can no longer confine literacy pedagogy to the realm of language alone, as we need to take into account the role of images and other modes of meaning-making in texts. Nowadays, the tasks set for students’ assignments in higher education ... Read more
Designing multimodal classrooms for social justice

Author: Archer, Arlene Date: 2014 This paper explores the ways in which multimodal classroom discourse could inform a social justice agenda through broadening the base for representation in the classroom. It identifies some of the challenges and opportunities of designing ... Read more
Discursive constructions of medical students identities in informal course-based online discussions

Author: Huang, Cheng-Wen ; Archer, Arlene Date: 2008 Studies into student identity have tended to focus on formal academic writing for assessment purposes. However, this is beginning to change with a shifting academic and semiotic landscape. More and more tertiary institutions are making use ... Read more
Investigating the effect of writing centre intervention on student writing.

Author: Archer, Arlene Date: 2008 Writing is one of the main means of assessment in tertiary institutions and helping students with writing could improve their overall academic performance and could ensure that students proceed to graduation. More and more, Academic Development ... Read more
Invisible landscapes: Students constructions of the social and the natural in an engineering course in South Africa.

Author: Archer, Arlene Date: 2009 This paper examines the discourses that students draw on and propagate in a course on rural development in a first‐year engineering foundation programme. It looks at the way 'rural' is often constructed as 'lack' and therefore 'other', the ... Read more
A multimodal approach to academic literacy practices: problematising the visual/verbal divide

Author: Archer, Arlene Date: 2006 There has tended to be an overemphasis on the teaching and analysis of the mode of writing in 'academic literacies' studies, even though changes in the communication landscape have engendered an increasing recognition of the different semiotic ... Read more
A multimodal social semiotic approach to jewellery design pedagogy

Author: Salaam, Safia Date: 2012 This thesis presents a multimodal social semiotic theoretical framework to explore jewellery design pedagogy. The role of the designer, meaning making and the semiotic functions of resources used within the practice of jewellery design are analysed. Read more
A multimodal social semiotic approach to the analysis of manga : a metalanguage for sequential visual narratives

Author: Huang, Cheng-Wen Date: 2009 This study contributes towards an understanding of the nature of sequential visual narratives, how different semiotic resources may be employed to construct a visual narrative and how sequence of images may be developed. Over the years, ... Read more
A multimodal social semiotic exploration of the 'glocal' in EAL

Author: Pearman, Akisha Estelle Date: 2015 Many English as an additional language (EAL) teachers around the world want to improve their professional practice in classrooms. In Angola, one particular approach to teacher training utilized two different video series published by the ... Read more
Multimodal texts in higher education and the implications for writing pedagogy

Author: Archer, Arlene Date: 2010 Although studies on writing pedagogy and academic literacies have examined changing genres in tertiary education, there has not necessarily been an emphasis on how a range of modes and media have influenced texts in various disciplines. This ... Read more
A new literacies approach to academic numeracy practices in higher education in South Africa

Author: Prince, Robert ; Archer, Arlene Date: 2008 This paper explores the terms 'mathematical literacy', 'quantitative literacy' and 'numeracy', in order to gain theoretical clarity on their meanings and the ways in which they are used. The teaching-learning situation and the learner are ... Read more c b
No goats in the mother city: using symbolic objects to help students talk about diversity and change

Author: Archer, Arlene Date: 2007 This paper reports on a first year project in a South African engineering foundation programme which attempted to bring a cultural studies perspective to teaching academic literacy. Students identify and investigate everyday objects that have ... Read more
Opening up spaces through symbolic objects: harnessing students' resources in developing academic literacy practices in engineering.

Author: Archer, Arlene Date: 2006 This article reports on one aspect of my PhD study, which I undertook as a teacher-researcher in the context of a first year Communication Course in a South African engineering foundation programme. The programme caters for students from less ... Read more

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