Moving from the Known to the Unknown in Academic Writing

Dr Verbra Pfeiffer is a Senior Lecturer in the English Language Studies Department at the University of South Africa. She holds a PhD in Language and Literacy from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and a postdoctoral degree from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She has been a second and foreign language educator for 20 years, and taught English at every grade level ranging from pre-school to university. Her research interests include applied linguistics, academic writing, multilingualism, translanguaging, academic literacy pedagogy, second language acquisition and literature-based language pedagogy. She is the co-editor of the book Multilingual Classroom Contexts: Transitions and Transactions (2021).