Promoting ongoing cross institutional AALL
collegiality, professionalism and research
Bronwyn James
Learning Development,
University of
Wollongong,
Wollongong, NSW 2522,
Australia
Judy Maxwell
Study and Learning
Centre, RMIT University,
GPO Box 2476,
Melbourne, Vic.3000,
Australia
bjames@uow.edu.au
judy.maxwell@rmit.edu.au
Database and Resource of academic language and
learning
Practice and Research
Stages in the development of the data
fields
2010-2011 trialling
at UoW and RMIT
Further revision
2009 presentation at
the AALL conference
2007 Towards
benchmarking
project AALL
funded (UoW)
2008-9 revised to
accommodate 2
AALL funded
projects –
Research
(Maxwell 2007)
and Practice
(James 2008)
Practice and Research Fields
Practice categories
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Competitive grants & awards
Conference hosting
Courses/subjects for credit
Courses/subjects not for credit
Integration/embedding into
disciplines
• Independent and self-directed
learning (non-integrated with
subject)
• Workshops, lectures and
tutorials (non-integrated, nonembedded, generic)
• Student consultations
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Peer mentoring
Peer tutoring
Resource development
Retention
Staff and tutor development
and support
Policy development and
governance
Research and scholarly
activities related to ALL
practice
Testing
Evaluation
Other
Practice and Research Fields
Cohorts
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Undergraduate
Honours
Postgraduate research
Postgraduate coursework
TAFE
International
Cultural and linguistic
diversity
• Foundation
• Transition
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Orientation
Mature age
Students with disability
Indigenous
Low SES
Other equity
Off-campus/off-shore
Other
Practice and Research Fields
Learning focus:
• Academic learning
• Academic literacy
• Clinical/workplace
communication
• Computer literacy
• Critical thinking, reading and
writing
• English language learning
• Exam preparation and
strategies
• Graduate/professional
qualities/capabilities
• Group/team work
• Library/information literacy
• Listening in lectures and
tutorials
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Listening in lectures and tutorials
Mathematics/numeracy/statistics
Note-taking
On-line learning
Oral presentations
Reading strategies
Referencing and plagiarism
Reflective practice
Research
Science literacy
Time management/goal setting
Writing for publication
Other
Creating a practice entry
Output as PDF
Creating a publication entry
What we would like from the AALL community
ALL Practices:
• Names of a small group willing to upload practices to do a final test
before we launch it to all AALL registered members
Bibliographical Data:
• Check whether your publications are up, and if so, check all details, eg
whether the abstract is there, whether the correct search categories
are identified, etc.
• If your publications are not there, upload them. As you’ve seen, this is
easy and won’t take too much time.
• Add a PDF or URL if appropriate.
• Add your contact details if appropriate.
• Let us know if there are any search criteria missing.