Articles and Conference Papers

The following material can be accessed by clicking on the relevant buttons on the left.  The articles follow the spelling conventions of British English, and their format follows the conventions of the journals in which they were published.          

Abilities. access and that bell curve

Academic failure, causes

Activity Theory, Mediation and Intelligence in Learning

Affirmative action and academic merit

African spaces of culture

Babel: Can Derrida's Tour (unsurprisingly) lead us anywhere?

Biosociology of language and discourse

Cloze tests as measures of language proficiency: A statistical analysis

Cognition and language proficiency

Critical language awareness as a solution to academic failure: The cognitive realities

Culture, conceptual frameworks and academic ability: A biocultural perspective

Deep Language, Intelligence and Language Proficiency in Learning

The Discrete-point test controversy

Indiscriminate Advancement and the Matric Pass Rate

Is the (unreal) tail wagging the (real) Dog? Understanding the construct of language proficiency

Language as a deep semiotic system and fluid intelligence in language proficiency

Language, content and skills in the testing of English for academic purposes

Multiculturalism in education: an African view

Multiculturealism and EMI (English as the medium of instruction)

"Old paradigm" language proficiency tests as predictors of long-term academic achievement

Paradigm, lost paradigm regained: Statistics in Language Testing

Perspectives in education

Psychometrics and reductionism in language assessment

Rater reliability: the bug of all bears

Science, social thought and point of view

Social and academic language: Implications for Language in Education

Solutions to academic failure: the cognitive and cultural realities

Structure in grammar in function: a marginal note

The L2 speaker is dead. Long live the L2 speaker

Other published articles (not uploaded to the website)