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Learning Content / Teaching Language, Emily Purser, Alisa Percy
Learning Content / Teaching Language, Emily Purser, Alisa Percy
Alisa Percy, PhD
English language teaching in universities is shaped in complex ways by the internationalization of higher education, student mobility and technological development. Within and around English medium universities, educational programs have to respond to changing national, institutional and departmental level understandings of students’ learning needs. In Australia, lecturers across the academic disciplines face, in classrooms and online, a high proportion of students who enter into disciplinary studies before they are quite proficient in the language of instruction – and institutions are required to demonstrate to the national education quality and standards agency (TEQSA) that they are helping international students to develop …
Reconnecting Language And Learning: Re-Integrating Academic And Language/Learning Development, Alisa Percy
Reconnecting Language And Learning: Re-Integrating Academic And Language/Learning Development, Alisa Percy
Alisa Percy, PhD
This presentation is concerned with the connection between academic development and language and learning development practitioners in Australian higher education. In 2002, Rowland argued that academic development could work as a ‘re-integrating force’ (p54) to bring a sense of coherence to professional life in the academy that had become fragmented across five fault-lines: the purpose of higher education, the relationship between students and teachers, the relationship between teachers and managers, the tension between teaching and research, and the fragmentation of knowledge. In this presentation, I propose a sixth fault line; that is, the pedagogical fracture between language and learning, which …