Towards rethinking multilingualism and language policy for academic literacies

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 396-405

  Stroud, Christopher ^a,b   Kerfoot, Caroline ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Academic literacy; Higher Education; Language policy; Multilingualism; Multimodality; Resemiotisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890211531     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2013.09.003     Document Type: Article

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