In recent years the higher education sector in Australia has been increasingly concerned
with ensuring that the English language proficiency levels of students are commensurate
with the academic and professional tasks that they must perform. In many universities, this
heightened attention to language proficiency has driven changes to teaching and learning
practices. This paper reports on a project to embed academic literacies development into a
core first year subject within a Bachelor of Nursing program in a large, culturally and …