Academic Reading and Pacific Students: Profiling Texts, Tasks & Readers in the First Year of University in New Zealand

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Academic Reading and Pacific Students: Profiling Texts, Tasks & Readers in the First Year of University in New Zealand

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Central to tertiary study in the literate world is the storage, transmission and retrieval of knowledge via the written word through the complex, multi-faceted and largely invisible process of academic reading. With New Zealand's changing demographics and increasing participation in tertiary education by students of Pacific descent, it cannot be assumed that there is a sufficient degree of match between the cultures of academic literacy of the institution and those of the linguistic /ethnic m...

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12 Nov, 2021

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Toumu'a, Mary Ruth

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Pacific students / Reading / Higher education / School: School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies / 200499 Linguistics not elsewhere classified / Marsden: 380201 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics / Degree Discipline: Applied Linguistics / Degree Level: Doctoral / Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy / Linguistics not elsewhere classified

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