Academic Talk for Higher Education: In Support of Equity and Academic Preparedness (Great Debates in Higher Education)

Academic Talk for Higher Education brings together several current debates around oracy, dialogic teaching, and the role that academic talk can play in both widening access to higher education and creating more equitable learning opportunities. Exploring the notion that a focus on purposefully using academic discourse in university classroom settings can support students to better engage, argue, and connect with their learning, peers, and educators, Academic Talk for Higher Education examines the relationship between spoken language, equity, and academic preparedness for higher education, and provides a theoretical and empirical account of policy drivers and widening participation cohorts.Working with extensive prior research conducted by the authors focused on ‘alternative pathway’ teaching contexts-Enabling Education in Australia and Foundation Year Programmes in the UK-chapters draw on teachers’ perspectives and experiences of academic literacies to conceptualise the need for more e