Academic literacies

MacNaughton (2003) offers 3 views of education: Conforming (passing on knowledge & control). Reforming (developing independent thinkers). Transforming (challenging inequalities).

Conforming = a generic study skills approach. Reforming = academic socialisation approach (e.g. AD). Transforming = academic literacies approach.

Just over twenty years ago, Mary Lea and Brian Street published a highly influential paper in the journal Studies in Higher Education, entitled ‘Student writing in higher education: an academic literacies approach’. To mark this important anniversary, JLDHE issued a call for papers for a special edition. The resulting collection of nine papers (including one from Simon Williams), four case studies, three opinion pieces, and one literature review brings together a range of responses to, and examples of the development of, academic literacies since Lea and Street’s seminal article.

Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, No 15 (2019), Special Edition, Academic Literacies.

Inclusive Learning-study skills to academic literacy.docx

Short, concise summary of the study skills <--> academic literacies continuum

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Embedding AD.docx

Embedding AD (Sue's notes)

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Paul Breen EAP IN IRELAND PRESENTATION 2019.pptx

'There has to be a clear pedagogy to support the ideology' - Paul Breen presentation on academic literacies (EAP in Ireland 2019)

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Review - Amanda French.docx

Review of: Amanda French' (2016) paper 'Fail better': Reconsidering the role of struggle and failure in academic writing development in higher education' for inclusion in the academic literacies literature review.

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Bibliography:

Archer, A. (2006) 'A multimodal approach to academic "literacies": Problematising the visual/verbal divide'. Language and Education, 20(6), 449-462.

Briguglio, C. (2014) 'Working in the third space: promoting interdisciplinary collaboration to embed English language development into the disciplines'. Available at: http://altf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Briguglio_C_NTF_report_2014.pdf

Charles, M., Pecori, D., and Hunston, S. (eds.) (2009 ) Academic Writing: at the Interface of Corpus and Discourse. Continuum International Publishing group.

Clarence, S., and McKenna, S. (2017) 'Developing academic literacies through understanding the nature of disciplinary knowledge'. London Review of Education, Volume 15, Number 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.15.1.04

Coffin, C., & Donohue, J. (2012) 'Academic Literacies and systemic functional linguistics: How do they relate?' Journal of English for Academic Purposes. 11. 64–75. 10.1016/j.jeap.2011.11.004.

Cook, P. and Thompson, A. (2017) Report on PTAS Project Analysing the Effects of Embedded Study Skills on First Year UG Attainment. Available at: http://www.docs.hss.ed.ac.uk/iad/Learning_teaching/Academic_teaching/PTAS/Outputs/PTAS_Project_Report_Analysing_Effects_Embedded_Study_Skills_on_FirstYear_UG%20Attainment_Cook.pdf

French, A. (2018) '"Fail better": Reconsidering the role of struggle and failure in academic writing development in higher education'. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 55:4, 408-416, DOI: 10.1080/14703297.2016.1251848

Goodfellow, R. (2005) 'Academic literacies and e-learning: A critical approach to writing in the online university'. International Journal of Educational Research, 43(7-8), 481-494.

Gourlay, L. (2009) 'Threshold practices: becoming a student through academic literacies'. London review of education, 7(2), 181-192.

Hallett, F. (2013) 'Study support and the development of academic literacy in higher education: A phenomenographic analysis'. Teaching in Higher Education, 18(5), 518-530.

Lea, M. R., & Street, B. V. (1998) 'Student writing in higher education: An academic literacies approach'. Studies in higher Education, 23(2), 157-172.

Lea, M. R., & Street, B. V. (2006). 'The "academic literacies" model: Theory and applications'. Theory into practice, 45(4), 368-377.

Lea, M. (2016) 'Academic literacies: looking back in order to look forward'. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 4 (2), pp 88-101. DOI: 10.14426/cristal.v4i2.91

Lillis, T. (2003) 'Student Writing as 'Academic Literacies': Drawing on Bakhtin to Move from Critique to Design'. Language and Education, 17:3, 192-207.

Lillis, T., & Scott, M. (2007) 'Defining academic literacies research: Issues of epistemology, ideology and strategy'. Journal of applied linguistics, 4(1), 5-32.

MacNaughton, G. (2003) Shaping early childhood: Learners, curriculum and context. Berkshire: Open University Press.

McWilliams, R. and Allan, Q. (2014) 'Embedding Academic Literacy Skills: Towards a Best Practice Model.' Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 11(3), 2014. Available at: http://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol11/iss3/8

Maldoni, A. (2017) 'A cross-disciplinary approach to embedding: A pedagogy for developing academic literacies'. Journal of Academic Language & Learning Vol. 11, No. 1, 2017, A104-A124. ISSN 1835-5196

Maldoni, A. M. and Lear, E. L. (2016) 'A decade of embedding: Where are we now?' Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 13(3), 2016. Available at:http://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol13/iss3/2

Murray, N., & Nallaya, S. (2016) 'Embedding academic literacies in university programme curricula: a case study'. Studies in Higher Education, 41(7), 1296-1312.

Russell, D. R., Lea, M., Parker, J., Street, B., & Donahue, T. (2009) 'Exploring notions of genre in 'academic literacies' and 'writing across the curriculum: Approaches across countries and contexts'. Iowa State University. Free chapter available here

Thies, L. C. and Rosario, V. (2019) “Partners in a changing dance: embedding academic literacies in unit and course curricula”, Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education. Plymouth, UK, 0 (15).

Tuck, J. (2018) Academics Engaging with Student Writing. Working at the Higher Education Textface. London: Routledge.

1. It focuses on the experiences of discipline-based academics at different types of university reading and assessing student writing. In doing so, it points up not only the struggles of academics dealing with student writing but the wide range of issues of student writing that arise, as well as the different kinds of pedagogic labour going on around student writing.2. It is an exemplary model of academic literacies research. 3. It is especially clear and succinct on the theoretical framing of academic literacies as well as the methodological concerns of researching pedagogies around writing as social practice.

Turner, J. (2012) 'Academic literacies: Providing a space for the socio-political dynamics of EAP'. Journal of English for Academic Purposes. Elsevier.

Turner, J. (2004) 'Language as academic purpose'. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 3, issue 2, pp 95-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1475-1585(03)00054-7 (Argument for an understanding of EAP to be mobilised more around language)

White, S., and Lay, E. (2029) 'Built-in not bolted-on: embedding academic literacy skills in subject disciplines'. Creative Pedagogies, 12. pp33-37

Wingate, U., & Tribble, C. (2012) 'The best of both worlds? Towards an English for Academic Purposes/Academic Literacies writing pedagogy'. Studies in Higher Education, 37(4), 481-495.

Wingate U. (2015) Academic Literacy and Student Diversity. The Case for Inclusive Practice. Multilingual Matters: Bristol.