UID:
edocfu_9960955703102883
Format:
1 online resource (289 pages)
ISBN:
1-925495-97-3
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0-9803616-5-6
Content:
Learning Discourses and the Discourses of Learning is an edited collection of papers exploring issues of teaching and learning in academic settings. The key theme of the volume is 'discourses' - especially as these relate to institutional policies, disciplinary practices and students' processes of learning in the academy. Particular attention is paid to the experiences of second-language students studying at Australian universities as well as those learning foreign languages in Australia. Employing a variety of methodologies and theoretical perspectives, the papers in Learning Discourses ar
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Introduction; PART ONE: ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CONTEXTS; 01 Problematising academic discourse socialisation; 02 The perils of skills: Towards a model of integrating graduate attributes into the disciplines; 03 Eliciting professional discourse in assignments; 04 Role conflation in academic-professional writing: A case study from the discipline of Law; 05 The socio-cognitive complexity of learning to argue in disciplinary (con)texts; PART TWO: SECOND LANGUAGE CONTEXTS; 06 Micro language planning for the support of international students in health science faculties
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07 'Don't be so loud – and speak English': School language policies towards Chinese international students08 Intercultural academic participation processes: The case of a Japanese international student at an Australian university; 09 Incomplete participation in academic contact situations: Japanese exchange students at an Australian university; 10 Peer networks of international medical students in an Australian academic com
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-9803616-4-8
Language:
English
