Teaching and learning specialized terminology with a mobile glossary in higher education
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The intersection between technology and pedagogy is explored in a higher education setting with particular reference to language teaching and learning in the digital age. Students from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds in South Africa find themselves in a higher education sector which is monolingually orientated, and language is consequently experienced as a barrier to access and success. Learning specialized terminology has an important role to play in the success of undergraduate students at university. The focus of the article is to explore the teaching of specialized terminology with the support of a mobile glossary. The article first explores which process will most effectively embed a glossary in a teaching and learning framework. Secondly, it describes a programme in which specialized terminology could be taught and learned with a multilingual glossary. Principal results include a formalized teaching and learning framework for integrating a glossary into teaching programmes and a description of processes and participants. The conclusion is that a multilingual glossary should form part of the academic repertoire of a university community.
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