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Swearingen, Amanda J. – TESOL Journal, 2019
This systematic review synthesizes 17 studies exploring nonnative-English-speaking teacher candidates' (NNES-TC) language teacher identity (LTI) development. The purpose was to examine NNES-TCs' LTI development during graduate-level TESOL programs in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The review addressed the questions, "What…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept
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Chappell, Phil; Moore, Stephen – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2012
This forum article describes a postgraduate certificate teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) program with a strong linguistics orientation and argues that such a program provides novice language teachers with knowledge and skills superior to those of programs which focus more on methodology and practicum experience and less on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Learning Theories
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Evans, Elaine; Cable, Dawn – International Journal of Educational Management, 2011
Purpose: With large numbers of overseas students enrolled in university accounting courses in Australia, there is a growing trend in the postgraduate accounting courses to approach the problem of language and communication difficulties by offering discipline-specific language training through an embedded curriculum approach in collaboration with…
Descriptors: Evidence, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Nicholas, Howard; Starks, Donna; Macdonald, Shem – TESOL in Context, 2011
The paper outlines a practical six-hour workshop and assessment activity for students enrolled in a Graduate TESOL/Applied Linguistics program at La Trobe University, Australia. The program attracts teachers from preschool to university contexts from many different countries. The workshop draws explicit connections between in-service teachers'…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Prior Learning, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Workshops
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Melles, Gavin – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2009
Enrolments in postgraduate engineering in Australia include a significant proportion of Asian ESL (English as a Second Language) students, and there is some debate in the literature about whether they are capable of critical appraisal. Content-based discipline-specific EAP (English for Academic Purposes) courses provide an environment for…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Discipline, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
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Teramoto, Hiromi; Mickan, Peter – Language Awareness, 2008
This paper analyses the first author's experiences in writing a critical review at the beginning of postgraduate study in Australia. Utilising the first author's position as both a researcher and the researched, the paper provides a narrative account of her stage-by-stage progress in writing a review, followed by an interpretive analysis from a…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Criticism
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Eddey, Peter; Baumann, Chris – Journal of Education for Business, 2009
The authors conducted an analysis of 1,049 graduates from post-graduate business programs at an Australian university primarily to determine whether students from nonbusiness backgrounds, after completing a business preparation program, perform at the same academic level as students with prior studies in business. The authors found that students…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Marketing, Business Education, Educational Policy
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Burke, Ed; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – TESL-EJ, 1996
Reports a study of academic and non-academic demands as perceived by a group of Australian non- native English speaking students in the first semester of postgraduate studies. Relates relevant research to participants' responses to a questionnaire and in follow-up interviews about academic difficulties, such as the use of first language and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Graduate Study