ALL taking a lead: enabling first year persistence and success
Keywords:
first year experience, retention and success, early intervention, innovation, academic language and learning advisers
Abstract
Australian universities, and academic language and learning (ALL) staff, are currently facing the challenges associated with an increasing the “… participation rate of students from low socio-economic backgrounds…” to “…20% of all undergraduate students by 2020” (Bradley, Noonan, Nugent & Scales, 2008, p. xiv). Concern about student persistence and success are prompting whole of institution approaches to transition support. Sometimes, however, a smaller, more focussed, transition program is required. This paper reports on an early intervention introduced by ALL staff on one campus in one division at the University of South Australia (UniSA) for a cohort that includes many students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds. The paper argues that ALL advisers need to ensure that they position themselves to meet these challenges and influence and effect institutional change through communicating the innovative nature of our work and the difference it makes to the experience of students adapting to university study.
Published
2011-11-14
How to Cite
JohnstonH. M. (2011). ALL taking a lead: enabling first year persistence and success. Journal of Academic Language and Learning, 5(2), A145-A157. Retrieved from https://journal.aall.org.au/index.php/jall/article/view/152
Section
Research Articles
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