Conference Program
Main venue: Bld 11, SG01 & SG05 (teas and lunch SG04)
This program is also available in Acrobat (pdf) format.
Abstracts and Papers
Abstracts for the presentations are available here in Acrobat (pdf) format.
You will
need a password to access the abstracts.
Passwords will
only be provided to registered particpants.
If you have
registered for the conference but have not received your password
yet, please contact:
Joanne.Witheridge@arts.monash.edu.au
.
Thursday 8 December
| 8:30-9:00 | Arrival | |
| 9:00-9:05 | Welcome | |
| 9:05-10:05 | Keynote address: | |
| 10:10-10:30 |
Morning tea |
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| 10:30-12:30 | Panel 1 Panel 2 | |
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1. Professional and academic discourses: the
role of assessment | ||
| Tim Moore & Brett Hough | The perils of skills: Towards a model of integrating graduate attributes into the disciplines | |
| Jan Pinder | ||
| Steve Price | Role conflation in the writing of undergraduate Law students | |
| 2.
The social context and language learning 1: tertiary | ||
| Robyn Spence-Brown |
Learner motivation and engagement in an authentic' task insights from activity theory |
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| Chiharu Shima | Effect of sociocultural factors on learners' pair/group work activity | |
| Masumi Kobayashi |
Effect of mentoring on second language composition process in Japanese | |
| 12:30-1:30 |
Lunch | |
| 1:30-3:30 |
Panel 3 Panel 4 | |
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3. Supporting discourse acquisition in the
academy | ||
| Rosemary Clerehan | Student writing in the academy: An ecological approach | |
| Robyn Woodward-Kron |
Negotiating meanings and scaffolding learning: The nature of writing support consultations with non-English speaking background postgraduate students | |
| Gavin Melles |
Discourses, genres, and cultural models in learning to critically appraise the medical research literature | |
| 4.
Language choice and language learning | ||
| Louisa Willoughby |
Don't be so loud - and speak English School language policies towards Chinese international students (FIRST OR LAST SPEAKER?) | |
| Naomi Kurata |
Social and contextual factors influencing L1/L2 use in learners' social network contexts: A case study of learners of Japanese in Australia | |
| Yuko Masuda |
Negotiation of language selection in language exchange partnerships | |
| 3:30-4:00 | Afternoon tea | |
| 4:00-5:00 | Keynote address | |
Friday 9 December
|
9:00-10:30 |
Panel 5 Panel 6 | |
| 5. Computer-mediated
learning | ||
| Patrick Durel | Dynamics of interaction in computer-aided collaborative revision of texts: An exploratory analysis | |
| Rosemary Clerehan | Framing online learning support for an international student population | |
| 6.
Processes of discourse acquisition and production: oral participation |
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| John Hamilton | Factors influencing the oral participation levels of Vietnamese postgraduate students studying in Australia | |
| Rintaro Imafuku | A case study of a medical PBL tutorial: tutor and student participation | |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Morning tea |
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| 11:00-1:00 | Panel 7 Panel 8 | |
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7. Disciplinary discourses, thinking and argumentation |
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| Tim Moore |
What is critical thinking'? Or shewing the fly out of the fly bottle | |
| Kara M. Gilbert |
The socio-cognitive complexity of learning to argue in disciplinary (con)texts | |
| Lorraine Bullock |
A socio-cultural approach to English as an international language: revisiting the discourse community |
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| 8.
Academic participation: planning and practice | ||
| Helen Marriott |
Micro language planning for the support of overseas students in health science faculties at an Australian university | |
| Kuniko Yoshimitsu | Study management of a Japanese international student in an Australian academic community |
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| Hiroyuki Nemoto | Incomplete participation in academic contact situations: Japanese exchange students at an Australian university | |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch | |
|
2:00-3:30 |
Panel 9 Panel 10 | |
| 9. The social
context and language learning 2: secondary | ||
| Julie Bradshaw & Andrea Truckenbrodt | Are LOTE classrooms gendered? | |
| Akiko Ryumon | Curriculum, assessment and teaching in VCE Japanese second language | |
| 10.
Social networking and academic participation | ||
| Ayako Wakimoto |
Peer networks of international medical students in an Australian academic community | |
|
Young A Cho | Korean student's study strategies and their communication networks | |
| 3:30-4:00 | Afternoon tea | |
| 4:00-5:00 | Keynote address: |
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| 5:00 |
Close of conference | |
Optional dinner in city 6:30-7:00 ($25 per person without drinks) Menu (pdf format).
VIALETTO RISTORANTE,
75 Hardware Lane , Melbourne .
(Note that free street parking in the city is available after 6:30 )
Your reservation needs to be made with us by 5/12, at the latest. Each participant will have to pay cash on the evening (as we will pay one bill to the restaurant).
If you would like to participate, please email Joanne.Witheridge@arts.monash.edu.au .