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Publication details [#49340]

Weideman, Albert. 2006. Assessing academic literacy: A task-based approach. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 37 (1) : 81–101.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | assessment | literacy | task-dependency of processing | testing

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper critically explores the construct of The Test of Academic Literacy Levels (TALL), employed by three South African universities (Pretoria, Stellenbosch and North-West), as well as its task types, in the light of actual discussions on authenticity.