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Developing international discipline-specific academic literacies: a language awareness-raising approach

This case study descrobes an initiative undertaken at York St John University as part of the HEA's Internationalisation Change Programme.

All learning is language learning; for success in assessment and in the global world of work York St John University (YSJ) students (both international and UK undergraduate and postgraduate) must learn to navigate the linguistic interactions (written and spoken) required in the study of their subject. This project requires students academic staff and language development (including EAP) staff to work together to develop and evaluate a suite of group work-based subject-specific language awareness-raising activities to be published online under a Creative Commons licence and deposited in Jorum an internationally accessible digital repository of reusable resources for Higher and Further Education.

icpcs_01_ysj_1.pdf
31/05/2013
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