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Moore, Tim; Ballantyne, Glenda; McIntosh, Craig – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2018
There is a consensus nowadays that the best way to develop students' academic literacy abilities is within the context of their studies in the disciplines, an approach known as 'curriculum embedding'. But despite the demonstrable value of this approach, surveys of the field in Australia suggest there has been only limited success over the years in…
Descriptors: Sociology, Writing Instruction, Academic Discourse, Intellectual Disciplines
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Benzie, Helen Joy; Pryce, Alison; Smith, Keith – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Embedding academic literacies in higher education courses has been a major focus of the work of learning advisers. A number of studies present the results of embedding in specific courses without discussing the processes of negotiation or the different people involved. This paper is about embedding academic literacies in the Business faculty as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Curriculum Development
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Ardasheva, Yuliya; Tretter, Thomas R. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
This paper reports on the curriculum development stage for a larger science-literacy intervention for secondary school newcomers enrolled in an urban US school. After providing background to the study, we review literature on effective vocabulary instruction and report on the "Science Vocabulary Support" program development, refinement,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Observation