Academic writing as social practice: a critical discourse analysis of student writing in higher education in Tanzania

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2006

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University of the Western Cape

Abstract

This thesis was a critical analysis of students academic second language writing at Sokoine University of Agriculture. Student writing in English as a second language in higher education has excited much interest in the English as a Second Language writing research and discussion in Tanzania. The interest was motivated by frequent criticisms from examiners regarding students literacy performance in the English as a Second Language writing in the post primary and higher education where the language of instruction is English as is configured in the Tanzanian language policy.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD

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English language, Rhetoric - Study and teaching (Higher), Foreign speakers, Textbooks for foreign speakers

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