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Eighth Biennial National Conference of the Association for Academic Language and Learning (AALL)
Conference Program: Day One
All plenary sessions are in West Lecture Theatre (WLT) 2.
Over the two days, there will be 6 parallel sessions held in
- the West Lecture Theatres 2 or 3
- or in seminar rooms in the Health Sciences 3 building (HS3) adjoining the WLT area.
Those are all in the same corridor; just enter HS 3 from the WLT building, go up one flight of stairs, and turn left.
| 9:00 |
Registration: WLT Foyer |
| 9:40 |
Welcome by Convener, Kate Chanock and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Paul Johnson: WLT 2 |
| 10:00 |
John Grierson Keynote Address by Alex Barthel: WLT 2 |
| 10:45 |
Morning Tea: WLT Foyer |
Parallel
Session 1 |
About plagiarism
Chair: Julianne East |
In transnational teaching
Chair: Clare Cunnington |
In the broader professional context
Chair: Jennie Lynch |
To support transition
Chair: Bernadette Bennett |
| Venue: HS 3, room 325 |
Venue: HS 3, room 302 |
Venue: WLT 2 |
Venue: WLT 3 |
| 11:00 |
Helen Bonanno, Karen Scouller, Ines Krass, Lorraine Smith:
Communication by policy: how students struggle with plagiarism issues |
Suzanne Fegan:
Issues and relationships in transnational teaching
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Marie Stevenson, Beverley Kokkinn:
Pinned to the margins? The contextual shaping of the academic language and learning practice |
Helen Farrell, Lyn Armstrong, Erst Carmichael, Neera Handa, Clare Power:
Benchmarking of university transition programs |
| 11:30 |
Dominic Keuskamp, Regina Sliuzas:
Plagiarism prevention or detection? The contribution of text-matching software to education about academic integrity |
With postgraduate students
Tao Bak, Helen Murphy:
Communicating legal discourse to international students: embedding targeted support for law subjects from VET through to HE
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Paul Preston:
Academic skills advising in turbulent times |
Helen Johnston, Andrea Duff, Diana Quin:
Cutting the cloth to fit new needs and communication preferences |
| 12:00 |
Joanne Dearlove, Dai Fei Yang:
Avoiding plagiarism: A focus on educational design and online support in referencing |
Helen Bonanno:
The communication triangle: support interactions for postgraduate legal writers
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Rosemary Clerehan:
“Language staff lose academic ranking”: ALL and new managerialism |
Gill Best, Darko Hajzler, Fiona Henderson:
Communicating with chinese students offshore to improve their transition to Australia - a pilot program |
| 12:30 |
Lunch: WLT Foyer |
Parallel
Session 2 |
About plagiarism
Chair: Robyn Thomas |
Cross-Cultural Communication
Chair: Anna Brunken |
Current Concerns
Chair:
Kate Chanock |
With post-graduate students
Chair: Alan Holmes |
| Venue: HS 3, room 325 |
Venue: WLT 2 |
Venue: HS 3, room 302 |
Venue: WLT 3 |
| 1:30 |
Karen Scouller, Helen Bonanno, Lorraine Smith, Ines Krass:
Communicating ethics: Pharmacy students’ attitudes to plagiarism and academic dishonesty |
Pat Porter:
Intercultural barriers faced by academic language and learning practitioners when counselling international students |
SIG:
Outsourcing ALL advice |
Julie Bartlett-Trafford:
‘Walking the walk’ while ‘talking the talk’: enhancing communication with postgraduate research students |
| 2:00 |
Julie Shaw, Paul Moore,
Senthilkumar Gandhidasan:
Educational acculturation and academic integrity: Outcomes of an intervention subject for international post-graduate public health students |
Virginia Hussin:
Preparing EAL pharmacy students for the ‘patient counselling test’ |
Disabilities
Chair: Claire Aitchison
Kate Chanock:
How do we not communicate about dyslexia? – the discourses that keep scientists, disabilities staff, ALL advisers, students, and lecturers from talking to one another |
Wendy Noble:
Go-betweens: PhD students and their supervisors and the ALL adviser |
| 2:30 |
Meeta Chatterjee:
Communicating textual engagement in writing |
Monica Behrend:
Scoping challenges in cross-cultural oral communication with transnational students |
Robyn Yucel:
Negotiating a path around learning difficulties |
About numeracy
Chair: Peter Hanley
Tiffany Winn, Dominic Keuskamp:
Communicating concepts of academic numeracy through a pattern-based approach |
| 3:00 |
Afternoon Tea: WLT Foyer |
Parallel
Session 3 |
J. Grierson R’table
Scribe: Deborah Coleman-George |
Cross-Cultural Communication
Chair: Reinhard Beissbarth |
Broader professional context
Scribe: Kate Chanock |
Numeracy R'table
Scribe: Dominic Keuskamp |
| Venue: HS 3, room 325 |
Venue: WLT 2 |
Venue: WLT 3 |
Venue: HS 3, room 302 |
| 3:30 |
Chad Habel:
New AALL staff – challenges and opportunities |
Shem Macdonald:
Developing learner awareness of spoken language
Alison Owens, Irene Hoetzer:
‘What did they say?’ Examining the effects of lecturers’ accents in English on the listening comprehension of students in Australian university classrooms’ |
R’table - Joanne Dearlove, Bronwyn James, Heather Jamieson, Alisa Percy, Emily Purser, Celeste Rossetto, Jan Skillen, Jeannette Stirling:
Towards benchmarking ALL practice |
R’table - Peter Hanley, Jules Holt, Monica Behrend, Janet Taylor, David Rowland:
Watch those numbers – a roundtable discussion on numeracy support issues |
| 4:30 |
Annual General Meeting of the Association for Academic Language and Learning: WLT 2
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