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Publication details [#52243]

Slik, Frans Van der. 2009. Gender bias and gender differences in two South African tests of academic literacy. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 27 (3) : 277–290.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | literacy | performance1 | testing | university

Language as a subject

Afrikaans | English, South African

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper discusses gender bias (at least in the Afrikaans version) and gender differences (women outperform men regarding textual information interpretation and vice versa as to graphs and visual information) in two South African academic literacy tests: the English Test of Academic Literacy Levels (TALL) and the Afrikaanse Toets van Akademiese Geletterdheidsvlakke (TAG).