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Publication details [#31208]

Pujol Berché, Mercè, Michael Newman and Mireira Trenchs-Parera. 2002. Core academic literacy principles versus culture-specific practices: a multi-case study of academic achievement. English for Specific Purposes 22 (1) : 45–71.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic world | crosslinguistic perspective | language and culture | literacy

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0889-4906 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This multi-case study investigates how three culturally distinct undergraduate groups (Mainstream USA, Catalans, Latino immigrants to the USA) deal with course content to achieve academic success. Cultural differences appear to be limited to attitudes towards learning and means of learning.