Scaffolding Disciplinary Literacies for student success (U32 100 1)

Description

Tailored for university teachers, this program enhances participants' abilities to seamlessly incorporate discipline-specific literacies into their daily curriculum activities.

Outcomes

  • An understanding of the underlying factors that have created the literacy crisis in South Africa
  • Integrated knowledge of how writers use discipline-specific structural and language resources to read and write in their disciplines.
  • Integrated knowledge of Scaffolding Academic Literacy methodology, and the ability to enact it in their mainstream curriculum in a discipline-specific manner.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of language and text structure to improve students' discipline-specific reading and writing skills.

Course Duration and Fee

Duration: 8 Weeks

Mode of Delivery: Hybrid

Course Fee: R12000

Requirements

  • Undergraduate Study (NQF 7)