The study upon which this article is based investigates teachers' literacy development
methods used in nursery and reception classrooms of a British international school, and …

Academic literacy has always been a key underlying theme in English for academic
purposes and practitioners and researchers in the field have always had one eye on its …

Widening participation has enabled access to higher education for an increasing number of
students via a range of non-traditional pathways. Consequently, whilst having a large …

Although school students in Chile have a minimum of eight years of English with an official
curriculum which clearly focuses on communication skills, national English tests prove they …

This thesis focuses on the learning and use of English as a tool of instruction inside Libyan
universities. The study begins with an investigation of the challenges that students and …

The paper documents the background, research and preliminary findings relating to a key
area emerging in Higher Education institutions in the UK: providing academic language and …

The growing hegemony of English in South Africa; sub-standard schooling and school
language in education policy have inhibited access to English literacy for many students …

B ilingual education programmes involving English are currently experiencing an
unprecedented rise in popularity, both at school and at university levels. While one of the …

The way in which academic literacy is acquired is described in the work of many
researchers, some of whom speak of students in higher education serving an apprenticeship …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a support course for English-medium
instruction (EMI) which continues to expand in European higher education (HE). While the …