Global Utilities

Eighth Biennial National Conference of the Association for Academic Language and Learning (AALL) 29 - 30 November 2007

Papers

Keynote address

John Grierson keynote address transcript
Alex Barthel
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Refereed Papers

Parrot poo on the windscreen: metaphor in academic skills learning
Clare Power, Erst Carmichael, Rosalie Goldsmith
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How do we not communicate about dyslexia? – The discourses that distance scientists, disabilities staff, ALL advisers, students, and lecturers from one another
Kate Chanock
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Pinned to the margins? The contextual shaping of academic language and learning practice
Marie Denise Stevenson, Beverley Anne Kokkinn
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Educational acculturation and academic integrity: Outcomes of an intervention subject for international post-graduate public health students
Julie Shaw, Paul Moore, Senthilkumar Gandhidasan
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“Language staff lose academic ranking”: What’s new managerialism got to do with it?
Rosemary Clerehan
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Communicating with Chinese students offshore to improve their transition and adjustment to Australia - A pilot program
Gill Best, Darko Hajzler, Fiona Henderson
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Plagiarism prevention or detection? The contribution of text-matching software to education about academic integrity
Dominic Keuskamp, Regina Sliuzas
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Communicating concepts of academic numeracy through a pattern-based approach
Tiffany Winn, Dominic Keuskamp
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Dialoguing at a distance: How do we communicate with external students?
Ann-Marie Priest
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Non-refereed papers

Learning from our students
Alan Calder and Bhama Daly
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‘What did they say?’ Examining the effects of lecturers’ accents in English on the actual and perceptual listening comprehension abilities of international students in a culturally diverse Australian university
Alison Owens, Irene Hoetzer
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N.B. PowerPoint files for presentations not accompanied by papers are available via the program page.
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