Collaborating across boundaries: Developing a cross-departmental approach to English language development in an undergraduate business unit

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Collaborating across boundaries: Developing a cross-departmental approach to English language development in an undergraduate business unit

This paper analyses a collaborative activity undertaken to identify and support undergraduate students at one Australian university who could be considered "at risk" because of the level of their English proficiency. The program, which was piloted in 2009, involved collaboration among staf...

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Main Authors:	Dunworth, Katie, Briguglio, Carmela
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Association for Academic Language and Learning 2010
Online Access:	http://journal.aall.org.au/index.php/jall/article/view/117/85 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47227

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