Global Utilities

Eighth Biennial National Conference of the Association for Academic Language and Learning (AALL)

Conference Program: Day Two

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.

Parallel
Session 4

Cross-Cultural Communication

Chair: Neera Handa

Communicating with Students 1:1

Chair: Suzanne Fegan

Communicating with our colleagues

Chair: Iris Perkins

E-discussions

Chair: Alex Barthel

Venue: HS 3, room 325 Venue: WLT 2 Venue: WLT 3 Venue: HS 3, room 302
10:00

Fiona Henderson:

Graduate attributes from a Chinese perspective

Kate Wilson et al.:

Discoursal characteristics of communication in one-to-one learning sessions: do they contribute to quality learning?

Carmela Briguglio:

The three Rs: academic advisers getting down to basics with academic colleagues

Alex Barthel:

'AALL forum' and 'unilearn' for ALL

10:30 Morning Tea: WLT Foyer
11:00

Chair and scribe: Colin Beasley

R'table - Rena Frohman:

Creating trigger videos to promote discussions about learning and cultural issues

Chair: Suzanne Fegan

Marian May:

How do students and ALL advisers interact in individual consultations?

Ann-Marie Priest:

Dialoguing at a distance: How do we communicate with external students?

Chair: Judith Booth

Fiona Cotton:

Educators or trainers? The need for a linguistic make-over in communicating ALL practice

Chad Habel:

Communicating process via content: A methodology for developing academic skills in a disciplinary context

About
Plagiarism

Chair: Bhama Daly

R'table - Isla Bowen, Bronwyn James, Lee Moerman, Paul Moore, Emily Purser, Jan Skillen, Ruth Walker:

Getting the message across: A common approach to developing educational integrity across three professional degree programs

12:00 Lunch: WLT Foyer
Parallel
Session 5

Communicating with our colleagues

Chair: Jenny Reeves

Singular ideas

Chair: Valli Rao

Communicating with our students 1:1

Chair: Paul Moore

Communicating with our colleagues

Chair: Annie Bartlett

Venue: HS 3, room 325 Venue: WLT 2 Venue: WLT 3 Venue:  HS 3, room 302
1:00

Kerry Hunter:

‘I cannot describe it but I know a good piece of work when I see it’: ALL advisers and macroeconomics lecturers in assessment dialogues

Clare Power, Erst Carmichael:

Parrot poo on the windscreen: metaphor in academic skills learning

Adela Abu-Arab:

Researching with the students: A pedagogically-sound way of communicating

Alan Calder:

Learning from our students

1:30

Kate Cadman:

Connecting through 'discourse personae' in journal article reviews: All mirrors and smoke?

Michael Paton:

Has the sentence been lost in genre?

Julie Howe:

Turn on, tune in; don’t drop out: using intuition to communicate with students

Andrew Johnson:

Calling ALL in the humanities

2:00

Roundtable - Neera Handa, Helen Farrell:

The painful pleasure of communicating with faculty partners

Laura Castell, Emma Gyuris:

Testing the effectiveness of the short session as a tool to improve students’ skills of critiquing a scientific article at university level

Promoting Scholarship - SIGs

Chair: Kate Chanock

Venue: HS3, room 311

SIG:

Networking on grants

 

With post-graduate students

Chair and scribe: Annie Bartlett

R'table - Claire Aitchison, Monica Behrend, Jan Pinder:

Enhancing research candidates’ written communication using writing circles

2:30

Angela Ardington, Karen Scouller:

Writing - an effective  communication tool for visual art students; not ‘just stupid rules’

JALL editors meeting

3:00 Afternoon Tea: WLT Foyer
3:30 Reflections and Close: WLT 2

 

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Last Updated: 23 March, 2007
23 November, 2007