Assessing Academic Literacy in a Multilingual Society: Transition and Transformation

Transition and TransformationSouth African universities face major challenges in meeting the needs of their students in the area of academic language and literacy. The dominant medium of instruction in the universities is English and, to a much lesser extent, Afrikaans, but only a minority of the national population are native speakers of these languages. Nine other languages can be media of instruction in schools, which makes the transition to tertiary education difficult enough in itself for students from these schools. The focus of this book is on procedures for assessing the academic language and literacy levels and needs of students, not in order to exclude students from higher education but rather to identify those who would benefit from further development of their ability in order to undertake their degree studies successfully. The volume also aims to bring the innovative solutions designed by South African educators to a wider international audience.Additional ISBNs9781788926218, 9781788926232Assessing Academic Literacy in a Multilingual Society: Transition and Transformation 1st Edition is written by Albert Weideman; ?John Read; ?Theo du Plessis and published by Multilingual Matters (NBN). ISBNs for Assessing Academic Literacy in a Multilingual Society are 9781788926225, 1788926226 and the print ISBNs are 9781788926195, 1788926196. Additional ISBNs include 9781788926218, 9781788926232.