Integrating literacy practices in business education : pedagogic intentions for teacher training

dc.contributor.authorAmerica, Carina Georginaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-07T12:56:04Z
dc.date.available2016-04-07T12:56:04Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionCITATION: America, C. G. 2014. Integrating literacy practices in business education: pedagogic intentions for teacher training. Per Linguam : a Journal of Language Learning, 30(3): 16-25, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5785/30-3-587.
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://perlinguam.journals.ac.za
dc.description.abstractThe importance of literacy and literacy practices as an instrument of conceptual and cognitive development is well documented. Reading and writing skills have an integral role in higher education, yet the application of these skills is normally the domain of language specialists or academic support programmes and not the focus of subject lecturers. This article reports on business education student teachers’ reflections of a small-scale ‘read-talk-write’ project. I argue that introducing a disciplinary literacy component in business education may infuse a critical-reflective approach in business education teacher training to encourage habits of reading, writing, speaking and reasoning with the intention to cascade it to school level. Data was collected by means of open-ended survey questions using content analysis. Findings suggest that content literacy instruction in business education can be applied by introducing deliberate and consistent literacy practices for students to become critically aware of and confident in interrogating disciplinary content in business.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://perlinguam.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/587
dc.description.versionPublisher’s version
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.citationAmerica, C. G. 2014. Integrating literacy practices in business education: pedagogic intentions for teacher training. Per Linguam : a Journal of Language Learning, 30(3): 16-25, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5785/30-3-587.
dc.identifier.issn2224-0012 (online)
dc.identifier.issn0259-2312 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5785/30-3-587
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/98914
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch University
dc.rights.holderPer Linguam
dc.subjectBusiness educationen_ZA
dc.subjectContent literacyen_ZA
dc.subjectCritical literacyen_ZA
dc.subjectLiteracy -- Study and teaching (Higher)en_ZA
dc.subjectAcademic writingen_ZA
dc.subjectOratoryen_ZA
dc.subjectReading (Higher Education)en_ZA
dc.titleIntegrating literacy practices in business education : pedagogic intentions for teacher trainingen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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