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Direct linkBaker, Sally; Bangeni, Bongi; Burke, Rachel; Hunma, Aditi – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
While the importance of academic language and literacies in students' meaningful participation in higher education has been well-explored, studies have focused on writing rather than reading. There has been a significant silence in the literature around what constitutes reading in higher education, the sociocultural complexities of reader…
Descriptors: Reading, Higher Education, Literacy, Reading Research
Playing Football without a Ball: Language, Reading and Academic Performance in a High-Poverty School
Pretorius, Elizabeth J.; Mampuru, Deborah Maphoko – Journal of Research in Reading, 2007
Second language (L2) reading research suggests that there is a complex interplay between L2 proficiency, first language (L1) reading and L2 reading. However, not much is known about the effect of L1 proficiency on L1 reading, and of L1 reading on L2 reading, or vice versa, in bilingual settings when readers have few opportunities for extensive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Reading Research, Academic Achievement
