Lia Blaj-Ward

Academic Literacies Provision for International Students

Evaluating Impact and Quality

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reinterprets the relevance, quality and impact of academic literacies provision at university in light of recent higher education developments in a pandemic-transformed world.

Drawing on the author's own experience of researching, implementing and assessing academic literacies provision, and on insights from broader scholarship and professional debates, the book helps set a new direction of travel for academic literacies professionals working in a variety of roles to enable and resource students' academic and professional growth.

It makes recommendations for policy, strategy and scholarship-informed practice that place value on communicating with confidence, clarity and care at university and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-11502-8
• 1st ed. 2022
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9783031115028
• ISBN-10: 3031115023
• Artikelnr.: 64192431

Autorenporträt

Lia Blaj-Ward is Associate Professor of Teaching and Scholarship at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is the author of two previous Palgrave Macmillan volumes: Researching Contexts, Practices and Pedagogies in English for Academic Purposes (2014) and Language Learning and Use in English-Medium Higher Education (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2. Institutional and sector perspectives on impact and quality of academic literacies provision.- 3. Experiencing impact and quality: international student journeys.- 4. Creating impact and quality: the role of academic literacies practitioners.- 5. Conclusion.