As far back as George Bernard Shaw’s fictional professor Henry Higgins, language experts have argued that low-income students who learn to switch from speaking a dialect to using standard English have ...

Integrated Skills courses are designed to help lower-level students with all of the language and skills needed to learn and use English, with a special focus on oral communication. Students will ...

No one is a native speaker of academic English. As the formal written and spoken language of classrooms and professional workplaces, academic English often bears little resemblance to the social, ...

Academic texts are often not easy to understand. They can be incredibly dense and full of complicated language that reads as if it’s been put through a thesaurus numerous times. And to a certain ...

Academic writing will probably be very different to writing that you have produced before. There are very specific conventions, characteristics and rules that need to be adhered to. They convey ...

Nhlanhla Mpofu received funding for this study from the National Research Foundation Thuthuka Grant. Mncedisi Maphalala does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

Christa van der Walt has received funding for a variety of research projects from the NRF and the Von Humboldt Foundation. In most cases, South African children are taught in their home language for ...