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Implementing a university-wide credit-bearing English language enhancement program: Issues emerging from practice
Abstract: Many nations now enrol large numbers of tertiary students with English as an additional language, raising concerns over academic literacy standards. As a result, calls for whole-institution approaches to enhance language proficiency have grown. This paper describes the issues faced by one university that attempted such an approach. We first outline three theoretical assumptions, that is, that academic literacy is facilitated by (1) the attention to discourse at the discipline-specific level, (2) the engagement of students with their social, institutional and cultural surroundings, and (3) the provision to students of the tools for self-directed, ongoing learning. The paper then explains how one Australian university implemented a mandatory programme of credit-bearing discipline-specific English language enhancement courses as foundational units across all degree programmes. Describing the first programme of its kind in Australia, the paper focuses on the issues emerging from practice identified from the first five years: (1) stakeholder perceptions, (2) student reception, (3) materials development, (4) programme management, (5) assessment and (6) measuring outcomes. Rather than a panacea for a notoriously complex issue, the paper presents strategies for dealing with the challenges that emerge for other institutions that might be contemplating reform of a similar magnitude. ; Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Languages and Linguistics ; Full Text
Keyword: ESL and TESOL Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. Maori); LOTE
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/161871
https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2015.1052736
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What did they expect? Exploring a link between students’ expectations, attendance and attrition on English language enhancement courses
Lobo, Ana; Gurney, Laura. - : Routledge, 2014
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What did they expect? Exploring a link between students' expectations, attendance and attrition on English language enhancement courses
Lobo, Ana; Gurney, Laura. - : Routledge, 2014
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Tracking international students’ English proficiency over the first semester of undergraduate study
Humphreys, Pamela; Haugh, Michael; Fenton-Smith, Ben. - : IDP: IELTS Australia, 2012
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Will We Meet Again? Examining the Reasons Why Students are Leaving First Year University Courses and Moving Towards an Approach to Stop Them
Lobo, Ana. - : Common Ground Publisher, 2012
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Towards the development of a prognostic approach to Student retention in foreign language classes
Lobo, Ana; Poyatos Matas, Cristina Florencia. - : Common Ground Publishing, 2010
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War of Attrition: A Prognostic Remedial Approach to Student Retention
Lobo, Ana; Poyatos Matas, Cristina Florencia. - : Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010
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War of Attrition: An Investigation of Student Attrition in Two First Year Foreign Language Courses and the Development of a Prognostic Approach to Identify Students at Risk of Withdrawing
Lobo, Ana Isabel Rijo Lobo. - : Griffith University, 2009
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Students' versus teachers' views on culture learning in the language class: A case study from an Australian tertiary Spanish programme
Lobo, Ana. - : Department of Languages, Flinders University, 2005
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Students’ versus teachers’ views on culture learning in the language class: A case study from an Australian tertiary Spanish programme
Lobo, Ana. - : Flinders University Languages Group Online Review, 2005
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