IELTS has gained widespread recognition as a useful predictor of ability to cope with language in an English-medium academic, training, professional or work-related environment.
What tends to get lost is the simple awareness that film, unlike a pamphlet or an academic paper, is a medium ideally suited to capturing the flux of lived experience.
It also outlines by example, some of the wider principles of poster compilation and presentation, for use by those who may utilise the medium at academic and scientific meetings.
These results give support to research outlining the importance of English proficiency (Yushau & Omar, 2007), and in particular, vocabulary knowledge as a prerequisite for academic success in English medium programs (Meara, et al. 1997; Waring & Nation, 2004; Hsueh-Chao & Nation, 2000).
As evidenced by many academic studies, the games medium is an incredibly powerful mechanism for learning, training and enabling us to view life through a different context; historically, culturally and politically.
This pilot study is the first to evaluate the perception of the academic poster as a medium for knowledge transfer.
This pilot study is the first to explore perceptions of the academic poster as a medium for knowledge transfer.
Authors may enable access to as much or as little supporting data and material as is appropriate, so assigning their own academic 'depth' to the medium.
The authors detail a low-cost, two-phased formula-based approach to bound periodical weeding at a medium-sized academic library with the goal of opening space for five years' growth, while still meeting user needs.
