Academic literacies

What have we achieved and where to from here?

Authors

  • Jan Blommaert Institute of Education, London
  • Brian Street Kings College London
  • Joan Turner Goldsmiths, London

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/japl.v4i1.137

Keywords:

Academic literacy

Abstract

Edited transcript of recorded discussion, February 2007 Mary Scott, as Chair

Author Biographies

  • Jan Blommaert, Institute of Education, London

    Jan Blommaert is Chair of Languages in Education at the Institute of Education London. His publications include (2005) Discourse Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and numerous ethnographically oriented studies of inequalities which have been published in journals; e.g. (2005) The Translator 11/2: 219--236; (2004) Language in Society 33: 643—676; Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.14/1:6—23.

  • Brian Street, Kings College London

    Brian Street is Chair of Language in Education Department of Education and Professional Studies. Kings College London. His recent publications include (2005) (ed)Literacies across Educational Contexts; mediating, learning and teaching. Philadephia: Caslon Press, and numerous journal articles that develop a new literacies approach; e.g. (2004) Language and Education, Vol. 18, 4 (special issue on Ethnographies of Literacy) (ed. M Baynham), pp.326-330; (2004) Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences, Volume 1, 1, pp.9-32.

  • Joan Turner, Goldsmiths, London

    Joan Turner is Head of the Language Studies Centre, Goldsmiths, University of London and current Chair of the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP). She has published a book on study skills (SAGE, 2002) and co-edited one (with Carys Jones and Brian Street) on epistemological and cultural issues in academic writing (John Benjamins,1999), as well as written a number of articles on cross-cultural pragmatics in academic contexts (Britain and Japan).

References

Blommaert, J. (2006) Ethnography as counter-hegemony: Remarks on epistemology and method. Working Papers in Urban Languages and Literacies 34 (http://access.kcl. clientarea.net/schools/sspp/education/research/groups/llg/wpull.html)

Canagarajah, A. S. (2002b) A Geopolitics of Academic Writing. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Curry, M. J. and Lillis, T. (2004) Multilingual scholars and the imperative to publish in English: Negotiating interests, demands, and rewards. TESOL Quarterly 38, 4: 663–688.

Ganobcsik-Williams, L. (ed.) (2006) Teaching academic writing in UK higher education. Theories, practices and models. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Jones, C., Turner, J. and Street, B. (1999) (eds) Students Writing in the University: Cultural and Epistemological issues. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Lea, M. R., and Stierer, B. (eds) (2000) Student Writing in Higher Education: New Contexts. Buckingham: Society for Research into Higher Education/Open University Press.

Lillis, T. (2001) Student Writing: Access, Regulation, Desire. London: Routledge.

Lillis, T. and Curry, M. J. (2006a) Professional academic writing by multilingual scholars: interactions with literacy brokers in the production of English medium texts. Written Communication 23, 1: 3–35.

Lillis, T. and Curry, M. J. (2006b) Reframing notions of competence in scholarly writing: from individual to networked activity. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 53: 63–78.

Published

2015-09-14

Issue

Section

Reflections

How to Cite

Blommaert, J., Street, B., & Turner, J. (2015). Academic literacies: What have we achieved and where to from here?. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 4(1), 137-148. https://doi.org/10.1558/japl.v4i1.137