1996: What Do We Learn from Teaching One-To-One That Informs Our Work with Larger Numbers?

Proceedings of the Conference Held at La Trobe University, November 18-19, 1996

Abstract

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Preface and Acknowledgements … 3

Advising Honours year students: Brigid Ballard … 5

Improving paragraph writing and summarising skills: workshop (Abstract only): Colin Beasley … 13

The first year university experience as a cross-cultural encounter: the benefits of individual consultations: Gillian Best and Deborah Neil … 14

Attention to the individual: Paula Boddington … 18

Towards a more efficient approach to individual appointments: Helen Bourne, Margaret Hicks, Kerry O 'Regan … 26

From reading to writing: a workshop on the stages of note-making: Beth Brough … 35

The power of one (to one): Anna Brunken … 38

The uses of ignorance: reflections on teaching graduate students: Andrea Chan … 43

The "interdiscourse" of essays: listening one-to-one and telling one-to-one hundred: Kate Chanock … 50

A tale of two groups: to satisfy whose needs? Lesley Chase … 56

The complex learning experience: using the individual context to teach groups: Tanya Clarke … 61

How does dialogic learning work? Rosemary Clerehan … 69

Why the provision of 1-1 language and learning support is cost effective for universities: Marcia Devlin … 82

Electronic mail tutorials: alternative learning strategies for undergraduates: Jenny Gardner … 91

A slipper for Cinderella: rediscovering personalised teaching: Mark Garner … 100

Revisiting process and product debates in one-to-one teaching of writing: John Grierson … 106

Talking with students: some teaching methods in a credit topic: Ed Irons and Marigold Francis … 114

The acquisition of language and literacy: some implications of neural network theory: Gillian Lueckenhausen … 121

All for one and one for all: rationalising the individual session: Patricia McLean and Aveline Perez … 130

Identifying trends, future directions: the study adviser data base at the University of South Australia: Max Marshall and Ian Reid … 137

A writing course for advanced ESL Accounting students: combining the advantages of individual and group tuition: Johanna Rendle-Short … 145

Proofreading: the skeleton in the academic skills closet? Peter Spolc … 153

A day in the life .... Marie Stevenson … 169

The use of student annotations on drafts and final versions of assignments: Neomy Storch and Joanna Tapper … 177

Transferring control of learning: a computer-aided strategy: Jill Turnbull … 190

Improving understanding in Physics: a cottage industry? Eleanor Walsh … 207

Bridging the reading-writing gap: is note-making a useful strategy for non-English speaking background students? Kate Wilson … 216

Meeting students' learning needs: reflections on group and one-to-one teaching: Glenis Wong-Toi … 221

Plenary: Information Sharing: Anne Pitkethly and Meg Rosse … 224