Leveraging Language: Preliminary evidence from a language-based intervention at the University of Cape Town
This paper assesses the effectiveness of essay tutorials offered to first-year economics students at the UCT (University of Cape Town) in their first language (L1). All students in the study are first-language speakers of an African language. Firstly, using propensity score matching, we econometrica...
Main Authors: | Emma Whitelaw, Tessa Dowling, Samantha Filby |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of the Western Cape
2019-12-01
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Series: | Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning |
Online Access: | http://cristal.ac.za/index.php/cristal/article/view/223 |
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