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| Title: Helping extension students to read history as initiation into a discourse community Author: Deverell, Gweneth Subject: | The University of the South Pacific|Extension Services Reading comprehension|Study and teaching Textbooks|Readability | Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies no.28, vol.15, no.1, 1993 Collation: p. 19-37 ; Abstract: Many students have difficulty in comprehending academic text, especially in the first two years of tertiary study. This paper identifies the reading skills a student would need to fulfil the expectations of lecturers in the USP’s foundation extension course, Introduction to Pacific History. Reasons for difficulties students face in understanding passages in the course Reader are suggested and recommendations are made about how course writers, tutors and teachers, in history and in other disciplines, could assist students to overcome these difficulties. Such assistance with reading history research articles, for example, is viewed as part of the process of initiating students into the discourse community of the academic discipline. As such it is seen as the responsibility of the subject lecturer and tutor. Nevertheless, it is recognised that English teachers still have an important role to play if they are familiar with the genre of the discipline and understand its communicative purpose.
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| Title: Pacific Preschool Council challenges teachers to celebrate the United Nations Decade for Literacy Author: Deverell, Gweneth Subject: | Literacy|Study and teaching (Early childhood)|Oceania | Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies no.25, vol.13, no.2, 1991 Collation: p. 78-79 ; Abstract: [ Abstract not available ]
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| Title: The relationship between English proficiency and academic success at the University of the South Pacific Author: Deverell, Gweneth Subject: | Academic achievement|Oceania English language|Study and teaching (Secondary)|Oceania Language and education|Oceania | Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies vol.11, no.1, 1989 Collation: p. 10-17 ; Abstract: [ Abstract not available ]
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| Title: Towards the formulation of a language policy for Pacific preschools : a survey of language use by parents and teachers Author: Deverell, Gweneth Subject: | Language policy|Oceania Language and education|Oceania English language|Study and teaching (Preschool)|Oceania | Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies no.16, vol.8, no.1/2, 1986 Collation: p. 73-86 ; Abstract: [ Abstract not available ]
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