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Implementing a University-Wide Credit-Bearing English Language Enhancement Programme: Issues Emerging from Practice
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Fenton-Smith, Ben; Humphreys, Pamela; Walkinshaw, Ian; Michael, Rowan; Lobo, Ana – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Many nations now enrol large numbers of tertiary students with English as an additional language, raising concerns over academic literacy standards. As a result, calls for whole-institution approaches to enhance language proficiency have grown. This paper describes the issues faced by one university that attempted such an approach. We first…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Higher Education, Universities, Foreign Countries