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Direct linkWhite, John Wesley; Lowenthal, Patrick R. – Review of Higher Education, 2011
This paper examines an often-overlooked contributing factor to minority student collegiate attrition: students' limited knowledge of--and sometimes resistance to--the kinds of academic discursive practices they need to become "full participants" (Lave & Wenger, 1991) in the university setting. Adopting a Vygotskian view of sociolinguistics, we…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, College Students, Academic Discourse, Resistance (Psychology)
Chanock, Kate – Higher Education Research and Development, 2007
Higher education policy is seeking, in the interest of "quality assurance", to reward teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Academic language and learning (ALL) advisers, who work closely with students to improve their performance in their courses of study, have much to contribute to SoTL. ALL advisers who adopt…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Epistemology, Discourse Communities, Quality Control
