Innocent Twagilimana's scientific contributions

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In the academic context, lecturers often describe students’ academic writing as very poor whereas the students themselves affirm not to understand the lecturers’ expectations with regard to ‘good writing skills’. This is a report on a study conducted in Rwanda to explore students and lecturers’ expectations of good academic writing. The investigati...

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... Rwanda, like many other countries, has developed initiatives that target the integration of information communication technology into the education sector. Twagilimana and Mannikko-Barbutiu (2017) recognised the efforts of African countries while using Rwanda as a reference point in the importation of ICT and the development of policy documents that seek to improve educational productivity and national development. Another observation that is in accordance with the practice in other countries is the rationale that backs the formulation and implementation of information communication in education policy in Rwanda, and these goals include the establishment of technology-driven education and an equal opportunity for teachers, learners and the general population to benefit from the deployment of such ICT tools and services in the schools. ...
... This finding is in line with Haggis' (2009) observation that critical and often sociological perspectives are limited in mainstream higher education journals, and in cases like sociolinguistics, such works are published in specialist journals of each field. The majority of the type of articles reviewed (n = 23) were found to be based on empirical research (see Mohamed and Banda 2008;Kamwendo 2010;Nel and Müller 2010;Cloete 2011;Posel and Casale 2011;Halvorsen 2012;Webb 2012;Grosser and Nel 2013;Jha 2013;Abongdia 2014;Bouazid and Le Roux 2014;Mendisu and Yigezu 2014;Ngcobo 2014;Obioha and Obioha 2014;Parmegiani 2014;Seabi et al. 2014;Hurst 2015;Ezema 2016;Sibomana 2016;Uwambayinema 2016;Dako and Quarcoo 2017;Twagilimana 2017). Review articles accounted for 20% (n = 6) of the reviewed papers (see Brock-Utne 2010;Nabukeera 2012;Qorro 2013;Kamwendo et al. 2014;Sibomana 2014;Koosimile and Suping 2015). ...