Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing - Volume 37, Issue 2, 2015

Abstract Academic literacies of students in higher education Students’ academic literacies in higher education form a topic of current interest in education policy and research in The Netherlands, as in many other countries. It is therefore remarkable that in the last decades hardly any studies have been published on this topic in Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing, even more so since the (sub)discipline Taalbeheersing (Discourse St Read More

Abstract Diagnosis of writing ability and remedial teaching of writing problems of first-year students in the Humanities First-year students at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam have to take the Diagnostic Test of Writing Skills; this productive test for measuring writing ability is designed to track down students with poor writing skills, mapping out their deficiencies and giving them a specific remedial advi Read More

Abstract It is claimed that various factors related to academic literacy deleteriously affect student throughput. The international trend is to determine the academic literacy levels of prospective or already admitted students. This article reports on such an initiative, where the academic literacy of first-year students at a number of South African universities is annually tested for the assignment of students to appropriate a Read More

AbstractDifficult, lengthy, serious: First-year students’ assumptions about writing in an academic settingThis study explores assumptions and expectations expressed by novice university students about writing in an academic setting. Knowledge of these notions and beliefs among students at the transition of secondary to higher education may help university teachers to design learning activities that enable academic newco Read More

Abstract The communicative competent professional from a managerial perspective A qualitative exploration as input for curriculum development Research indicates that the communicative performance of starting professionals does not always match managers’ expectations, although managers rate communication as important for their professional success. Institutes of higher education have the task of designing edu Read More