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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:
Professor Patricia Duff, University of British Columbia :
"Problematizing Academic Discourse Socialization"
(Chair: Helen Marriott) SG01

10:10-10:30

Morning tea

10:30-12:30

Panel 1 Panel 2

1. Professional and academic discourses: the role of assessment
(Chair: Helen Marriott) SG01

Tim Moore & Brett Hough

The perils of skills: Towards a model of integrating graduate attributes into the disciplines

Jan Pinder

Eliciting professional discourse in assignments

Steve Price

Role conflation in the writing of undergraduate Law students

2. The social context and language learning 1: tertiary
(Chair: Tim McNamara) SG05

Robyn Spence-Brown

Learner motivation and engagement in an ‘authentic' task – insights from activity theory

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

3. Supporting discourse acquisition in the academy
(Chair: Jim Moore ) SG01

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
(Chair: Patsy Duff) SG05

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
Professor Tim McNamara, University of Melbourne :
"Research directions in language and identity"
(Chair: Robyn Spence-Brown ) SG01

Friday 9 December

9:00-10:30

Panel 5 Panel 6

5. Computer-mediated learning
(Chair: Sally Staddon ) SG01

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
(Chair: Kara Gilbert) SG05

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

11:00-1:00

Panel 7 Panel 8

7. Disciplinary discourses, thinking and argumentation
(Chair: Julie Bradshaw ) SG01

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

8. Academic participation: planning and practice
(Chair: Robyn Woodward-Kron) SG05

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

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
(Chair: Robyn Spence-Brown ) SG01

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
(Chair: Patsy Duff) SG05

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:
Professor Michael Clyne, University ofMelbourne/Monash University:
"Community languages in Australia : an uncompleted research agenda"
(Chair: Tim Moore)

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 .

Learning Discourses
and the
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