Framing writing tasks in the EAP context : strategies for culturally responsive assessment

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Title

Framing writing tasks in the EAP context : strategies for culturally responsive assessment

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National Library of New Zealand

Collection

Index New Zealand

Description

Illustrates the challenge of learning new academic literacies and skills faced by immigrant and international EAP students. With a critique of two extracts from degree level assessments, which arise from an investigation of discipline-specific assessment, explains that such students are often disadvantaged by their lack of knowledge and experience of the dominant NZ culture. To prevent discrimination of this type, outlines an approach that can be taken to provide EAP students with opportuni...

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Format

Journal

Date created

2004

Creator

Turner, Elizabeth, (Auckland University of Technology, School of Languages) / Jackson-Potter, Esther, (Auckland University of Technology, School of Languages) / Jenner, Christine, (Auckland University of Technology, School of Languages)

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/20957180

Related subjects

Students, Foreign / Language and languages -- Study and teaching / Culture / College students

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