Academic Literacies in Higher Education in Paraná: opportunities and Shortcomings

Studies in academic literacies emerge from the necessity to expand and/or investigate the opportunities for students’ engagement and agency in academia. The university is an educational environment, which requires students to deal with a diverse range of social situations involving genres such as re...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Silva Sanches, Bruno, Cristovão, Vera Lúcia Lopes
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Recursos:Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Letras e Lingüística (ANPOLL)
Repositorio:Revista da ANPOLL (Online)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistadaanpoll.emnuvens.com.br:article/1680
Acesso em linha:https://revistadaanpoll.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/1680
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Academic literacies
Textual genre
English language
Academic writing
Additional languages
Letramentos Acadêmicos
Gênero textual
Língua Inglesa
Escrita acadêmica
Línguas Adicionais
Descrição
Resumo:Studies in academic literacies emerge from the necessity to expand and/or investigate the opportunities for students’ engagement and agency in academia. The university is an educational environment, which requires students to deal with a diverse range of social situations involving genres such as research articles, reading projects, oral presentations, among others, and their social roles implied. Based on the model of academic literacies by Lea and Street (1998), we analyse the prospects of actions a public University of Paraná State has (or has not) provided to facilitate the development and inclusion of its students in the production and understanding of academic genres, focusing on the opportunities for engaging with texts in Portuguese (mother tongue), English, Spanish, and/or French. In order to gather data, an online questionnaire was used and a focus group run with 4th-year students of an English Language Teacher Education course. The results show considerable shortcomings and needs for improvement especially concerning academic literacy development in additional languages and the necessity for more opportunities to supply demands shown in this study from the data analysed.