1984: The Australasian Fifth Annual Study Skills Conference: Language and Learning at Tertiary Level

Abstract

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'By Indirections Find Directions Out': Introduction to University Study: B. Ballard, J. Clanchy, and J. Taffe … 9

Survey Results: Douglas Bate … 21

'Improving Access to Tertiary Education': Vic Beasley … 60

'Bridging the Gaps – Study Support Services for Off-Campus Students at the University of New England': D. Bowlay and S. Dorland … 69

'The Sentence is Basic': Helen Drury … 82

Teaching Before Learning or Learning Before Teaching? Nerida F. Ellerton … 93

'Some Aspects of Body Movement in Communication':  June Gassin … 100

'Communicating Mathematical Skills and Ideas in Tertiary Institutions': Joe Gilks … 102

'Developing Audio Learning Skills Materials for External Students': Lorraine Marshall … 107

'Analysis and Synthesis: Developing Report Writing Skills in Tertiary Students': M. Rosanna McEvedy … 109

'Easing the Entry' A Study Skills Programme for New Mature Entrants: Neil Quintrell … 132

Let's Use the Video-Computer Link: Gloria E. Robbins and Sandy M. Pottinger … 150

'Industrialised, Individualised or Independent?': Frances Rowland … 155

Interactive Video and Foreign Language Learning in the 80’s: Liz Temple … 189

Eloquence & Literacy: Peter J. Wakeham … 197

Improving Students' Essays: Carolyn Webb … 208

Developing Postgraduate Research Skills: Ortrun D. Zuber-Skerritt … 225

Head Counting or Skull-Duggery: A Case of Caput Mortuum? Hanne Bock And Helene Lewit … 229

Generic Structures and Learning to Write: Frances Christie … 242

Purifying the Tribal Language: What Do They Know of English, Who Only English Know? Emiritus Professor C.E. Moorhouse … 263

Cognitive Differences in Processing of Words and Pictures: A Cross Cultural Comparison: Barry L. Richardson and Dianne B. Wuillemin … 284

Reading as Interpretation: The Jefferson Scandal: Gordon Taylor … 297

Age of Acquisition: A Determinant of Hemispheric Dominance for Language Processing in Papua New Guineans: Dianne Wuillemin … 316

Developing Post Graduate Research Skills: 0. Zuber-Skerritt and A. Rix … 326

Report on a Workshop: On 'Developing Postgraduate Research Skills' … 348