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Pierce, Robyn; Begg, Meredith – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2017
School and university mathematics: Do they speak the same language? Our university mathematics students come from amongst the successful school mathematics students, but what difficulties with symbols do their lecturers and tutors observe? In this paper, we report on data from interviews with 21 first-year lecturers and tutors from four…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts, College Faculty
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Macdonald, Shem – CATESOL Journal, 2018
An exploration of pronunciation tutorials designed for speakers of English as an additional language (EAL) in a university context in Australia suggests that developing abilities to speak clearly involves more than just focusing on the sounds that are uttered. Students' comments and observations collected during pronunciation tutorials highlight…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pronunciation Instruction, Tutorial Programs, Comprehension
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Willoughby, Louisa; Manns, Howard; Iwasaki, Shimako; Bartlett, Meredith – Sign Language Studies, 2014
This article discusses ways in which misunderstandings arise in Tactile Australian Sign Language (Tactile Auslan) and how they are resolved. Of particular interest are the similarities to and differences from the same processes in visually signed and spoken conversation. This article draws on detailed conversation analysis (CA) and demonstrates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Tactual Perception, Communication Problems