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Botma, Gabriel J. – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2012
A former whites-only South African university's journalism department employs a dual-medium language policy in which Afrikaans and English alternate in classrooms, and students may use either. Admissions processes include a test of linguistic ability (general/cultural knowledge and writing skills). Citing Bourdieu, this article disputes the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Writing (Composition), Journalism Education, Linguistics
Baird, Leonard L. – 1976
This review examines the accuracy and the concurrent and predictive validity of brief self-report information, and evaluates the promise and problems involved in its practical use. In section one, the power of self-report information for predicting and understanding grades is reviewed. In the second section, research on the influence of background…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Activism, Adults, Background