Browsing Research Articles (Linguistics) by Author "Antia, Bassey E."
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Diagnostic assessment of academic reading: Peeping into students’ annotated texts
Antia, Bassey E.; Vogt, Karin (MDPI, 2022)Text annotations are literacy practices that are not uncommon in the reading experience of university students. Annotations may be multilingual, monolingual, or multimodal. Despite their enormous diagnostic potentials, ... -
Enhancing an international perspective in public health teaching through formalized university partnerships
Brzoska, Patrick; Akgun, Seval; Antia, Bassey E.; Thankappan, K. R.; Nayar, Kesavan Rajasekharan; Razum, Oliver (Frontiers Media, 2017)Teaching in the field of public health needs to employ a global perspective to account for the fact that public health problems and solutions have global determinants and implications as well. International university ... -
Epistemological access through lecture materials in multiple modes and language varieties: the role of ideologies and multilingual literacy practices in student evaluations of such materials at a South African University
Antia, Bassey E.; Dyers, Charlyn (Springer, 2016)This paper seeks to address the ways in which ideology and literacy practices shape the responses of students to an ongoing initiative at the University of the Western Cape aimed at diversifying options for epistemological ... -
Epistemological access through lecture materials in multiple modes and language varieties: the role of ideologies and multilingual literacy practices in student evaluations of such materials at a South African University
Antia, Bassey E.; Dyers, Charlyn (Taylor & Francis, 2016)This paper seeks to address the ways in which ideology and literacy practices shape the responses of students to an ongoing initiative at the University of the Western Cape aimed at diversifying options for epistemological ... -
The interaction of text and visual in specialized dictionary definitions
Antia, Bassey E.; Ivo, Njuasi (John Benjamins Publishing, 2013)Although visuals have been co-deployed with text in specialized dictionaries as far back as the European Renaissance, the interaction of both representational modalities is relatively under-researched. As a consequence, ... -
Multilingual examinations: towards a schema of politicization of language in end of high school examinations in sub-Saharan Africa
Antia, Bassey E. (Taylor & Francis, 2018)In many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the release of each year’s results for the end of high school examinations heralds an annual ritual of public commentary on the poor state of national education systems. However, ... -
Speaking with a forked tongue about multilingualism in the language policy of a South African university
Antia, Bassey E.; van der Merwe, Chanel (Springer Netherlands, 2018)As part of a broader student campaign for ‘free decolonized education’, protests over language policies at select South African universities between 2015 and 2016 belied widespread positive appraisals of these policies, ... -
Theorising terminology development: Frames from language acquisition and the philosophy of science
Antia, Bassey E.; Ianna, Bem (UNISA Press, 2016)The manner in which our conceptualisation and practice of terminology development can be informed by processes of knowledge change in child language development and a paradigm shift in disciplines, has been relatively ... -
Writing biology, assessing biology: The nature and effects of variation in terminology
Antia, Bassey E.; Kamai, Richard A. (John Benjamins Publishing, 2016)There has been substantial research into terminology as an issue in learning science, especially against the backdrop of concerns over school literacy in science and as sometimes reflected in the poor performance of high ...