2011 Program
Research priorities
The topics for research in the 2011 program fell within a broad range of areas of concern to ELICOS teachers and academic managers:
- Monitoring and assessing student progress, achievement and proficiency
- Teaching ESP
- Teaching General English
- Teaching pronunciation
- Teaching academic literacy/EAP
- Student motivation
Participants and projects
The following people were selected by the program Reference Group as participants in the program. The research topics are as follows:
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Megan Baker |
Navitas City Centre, NSW |
Using blogs to develop student writing |
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Brendan Brown |
Milner International College of English, WA |
Raising student awareness of pronunciation |
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Brigette Fyfe & Christine Vella |
UNSW Institute of Languages, NSW |
Using assessment rubric as an explicit teaching tool |
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John Gardiner |
CET, The University of Sydney, NSW |
Teaching grammar explicitly or implicitly (EAP) |
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Sara Kablaoui & Amal Khabbaz |
RMIT Training, Vic |
Developing reading skills of Arabic-speaking learners |
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Adi Rotem |
UNSW Institute of Languages, NSW |
Engaging students in independent learning |
(L - R) David Matthews (Chair of English Australia), Sue Blundell (English Australia Executive Director), Katherine Brandon (English Australia Professional Support and Development Officer), Professor Anne Burns (UNSW). John Gardiner, Amal Khabbaz, Brendan Brown, Adi Rotem, Megan Baker, Sara Kablaoui, Brigette Fyfe, Christine Vella, Dr Nick Saville (Cambridge English Language Assessment)
Research outcomes
Outcomes of the 2011 projects are summarised briefly here.
Click here for full research reports in Issue 48 of Cambridge English Language Assessment Research Notes, published June 2012.
