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Rafaela Cleeve Gerkens; Richard Sallis; Annemaree O'Brien – Research in Drama Education, 2024
This paper reports on a major study which examined how middle-primary teachers (of students aged 8-10) in Australia used drama-rich pedagogy in their literacy programs to support the development of academic language proficiency, a critical element of ongoing student progress in literacy beyond the early years. Despite its proven status as a…
Descriptors: Drama, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers, Literacy Education
Geraldine Caleta; Elizabeth Carrington; Natasha Pullen – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2024
This article presents a story of practice regarding how a primary school addressed the issue of supporting English as an additional language or dialect (EAL/D) learners to communicate and reason in mathematics. A shared understanding across the school uncovered teachers have a critical role in supporting EAL/D learners and their acquisition and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
Congcong Xing; Guanglun Michael Mu; Deborah Henderson – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
With English hegemony sustained in 'multicultural' Anglophone universities, non-English speaking research students often develop diverse strategies to improve their English. While such strategies demonstrate a form of resilience, the symbolic power of English remains intact. To grapple with this paradox, we draw on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Universities, Sociology, Resilience (Psychology)
Demir, Cuneyt – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Writing native-like has always been a primary purpose for non-native writers of English and, accordingly, many language components have been investigated to develop writers' fluency. One of these language components is syntactic complexity (SC), which is often regarded as a reliable way to grade any texts from easy to difficult. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Syntax, Native Language, Native Speakers, Second Language Instruction
Koralage, Tharanga; Choi, Julie; Cross, Russell – TESOL in Context, 2023
Although the literature on computer-assisted language learning has demonstrated that digital tools such as online translators and bilingual dictionaries offer affordances to second language (or foreign language) writers of English to solve linguistic (lexical and syntactic) issues, the extent to which digital technology supports multilingual…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Academic Language, English (Second Language)
Emily Edwards; Rosalie Goldsmith; Caroline Havery – English Australia Journal, 2024
In this paper, we present and illustrate four principles used to develop discipline-specific academic language tutorials for students who enter university with low levels of academic language proficiency. The tutorials are part of a university-wide language support program following a post enrolment language assessment (PELA). The principles…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Intensive Language Courses, Academic Language, Second Language Learning
Hasrati, Mostafa; Tavakoli, Parvaneh – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2019
Although dissertations have traditionally been part of master's programmes, non-dissertation track master's programmes are on the rise across the world. This paper reports faculty views on MA TESOL dissertations (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) in five Anglophone countries. Drawing on the academic literacies tradition and informed…
Descriptors: Masters Theses, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Murray, Neil – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2022
The globalisation of higher education and the resultant increase in the cultural and linguistic diversity of the student body has cast the spotlight on English language proficiency as never before. How universities best assess applicants' linguistic suitability for their future degree studies, set appropriate proficiency thresholds, and put in…
Descriptors: Academic Language, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language), Language Skills
Mhilli, Olga – English Australia Journal, 2020
This brief report presents the preliminary results of the textual data analysis within a qualitative longitudinal study that examines ESL adolescent writers' voice in their academic writing as they transition from a High School Preparation (HSP) intensive English program to mainstream high schools (HS) in Sydney, Australia.
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, High School Students
Xu, Jian; Chan, Wai-wan Vivien – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2023
The article examines the experiences of Chinese PhD students doing research in China Studies as well as the experiences of their supervisors who supervise their research in Australian universities. By conducting semi-structured interviews with both PhD students and their supervisors, we aim to understand the expectations, concerns and challenges…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Foreign Students, Asian Studies, Asians
Yeo, Joseph; O'Donoghue, Gemma – Student Success, 2023
To address the demands from their courses, students with insufficient language proficiency who cannot attend the standard subject-specific academic language development program are directed to an alternative discipline-specific program -- the Language Development Tutorial in Block mode, at the University of Technology Sydney. This practice report…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Academic Language, Universities, English for Academic Purposes
Kim, Mira – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
This article sets out to introduce a Personalised Autonomous (PA) model as a holistic and sustainable model to address the issue of international students' English Language Proficiency (ELP) in Australian higher education. This model was embedded in a credit-bearing course entitled Personalised English Language Enhancement (PELE). Both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Personal Autonomy, English (Second Language)
Matsunaga, Kaoru; Chowdhury, Raqib; Barnes, Melissa Marie; Saito, Eisuke – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
For international students undertaking higher education in English-speaking countries, often social and academic competencies are at odds with the expectations of the classroom discourse communities and the normative behaviours and practices of these communities. This conceptual paper argues that despite some scholarly studies seeing such…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, International Education, College Students, Self Concept
Smith, John – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2019
Since the earliest adoption of educational technologies, teachers and researchers have been exploring its efficacy on language learning and development. The speed with which these technologies are now infiltrating academic student support will continue to increase, and so the need for good guidance in this space will likewise increase. Currently…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Academic Language, Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries
Allison, Davina – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
The development of an appropriate authorial voice is considered to be fundamental to successful academic writing in the target language. Voice research in second language (L2) writing, therefore, seeks to delineate voice salience in L2 academic texts, the relationship between voice and high quality academic writing, the second language writer's…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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