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Shaoru Annie Zeng; Sun Yee Yip; Grace Xuecong Ji; Yaqing Hou; Hongzhi Zhang; Philip Wing Keung Chan; Zane Diamond; Geraldine Burke – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2024
This study analyses how community resources are integrated into four areas of the Australian Curriculum: Languages (Chinese), The Arts (Visual Arts), Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences (Economics and Business). It examines four case studies to compare the use of rural resources and local partnerships in achieving educational goals and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Resources, Public Libraries, Museums
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Holbrook, Allyson; Burke, Rachel; Fairbairn, Hedy – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
Overseas students who have learned English as a second or foreign language (L2) form a prominent subgroup of research students in Australian universities. However, there is a paucity of research exploring the linguistic experiences of this population in connection with thesis examination and in comparison with first language users of English (L1).…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Bastalich, Wendy – Higher Education Research and Development, 2011
One of the outcomes of the policy emphasis upon skills formation in countries like Australia and the UK has been an increase in cross-disciplinary structured programs for higher research degrees raising implicit, but often unexamined, questions about the curriculum and expertise that should inform them. Key insights from applied linguistics and…
Descriptors: Expertise, Writing (Composition), Student Evaluation, Research Projects
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Thomas, Bonnie – Babel, 2007
In 2003, the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia (UWA) underwent a major restructure involving the move from eight-point units to six-point or twelve-point units. For the discipline group of European Languages and Studies this redistribution of points resulted in the creation of a new series of…
Descriptors: African Culture, Social Sciences, Foreign Countries, French