TY - JOUR
T1 - Academic literacies twenty years on: a community-sourced literature review
AU - Hilsdon, J
AU - Malone, C
AU - Syska, A
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - In 1998, the paper ‘Student writing in higher education: an academic literacies approach’
by Mary Lea and Brian Street reinvigorated debate concerning ‘what it means to be
academically literate’ (1998, p.158). It proposed a new way of examining how students
learn at university and introduced the term ‘academic literacies’. Subsequently, a body of
literature has emerged reflecting the significant theoretical and practical impact Lea and
Street’s paper has had on a range of academic and professional fields. This literature
review covers articles selected by colleagues in our professional communities of the
Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE), BALEAP the global
forum for English for Academic Purposes (EAP) professionals, and the European
Association of Teachers of Academic Writing (EATAW). As a community-sourced literature
review, this text brings together reviews of wide range of texts and a diverse range of
voices reflecting a multiplicity of perspectives and understandings of academic literacies.
We have organised the material according to the themes: Modality, Identity, Focus on text,
Implications for research, and Implications for practice. We conclude with observations
relevant to these themes, which we hope will stimulate further debate, research and
professional collaborations between our members and subscribers.
AB - In 1998, the paper ‘Student writing in higher education: an academic literacies approach’
by Mary Lea and Brian Street reinvigorated debate concerning ‘what it means to be
academically literate’ (1998, p.158). It proposed a new way of examining how students
learn at university and introduced the term ‘academic literacies’. Subsequently, a body of
literature has emerged reflecting the significant theoretical and practical impact Lea and
Street’s paper has had on a range of academic and professional fields. This literature
review covers articles selected by colleagues in our professional communities of the
Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE), BALEAP the global
forum for English for Academic Purposes (EAP) professionals, and the European
Association of Teachers of Academic Writing (EATAW). As a community-sourced literature
review, this text brings together reviews of wide range of texts and a diverse range of
voices reflecting a multiplicity of perspectives and understandings of academic literacies.
We have organised the material according to the themes: Modality, Identity, Focus on text,
Implications for research, and Implications for practice. We conclude with observations
relevant to these themes, which we hope will stimulate further debate, research and
professional collaborations between our members and subscribers.
UR - https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/context/sc-research/article/1276/viewcontent/Syska_Academic_20Literacies.pdf
M3 - Article
SN - 1759-667X
VL - 0
JO - Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
JF - Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
IS - 0
ER -