Janne Morton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3942300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janne Morton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janne |
| FAMILY NAME | Morton |
| SIGNATURE | MORTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1764-3398 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Multiple perspectives on group work in a multilingual context
Group assignments are widely used in higher education for a range of educational reasons. Although there is a large body of research on the merits of group work and factors that may contribute to successful group work, less is known about students’ and teachers’ perspectives, particularly when groups are composed of students from diverse linguistic backgrounds. The current qualitative study investigated students’ and teachers’ perspectives on gro…
Claire Kramsch
In 2020 amidst the COVID-19 crisis, and in the final year of Donald Trump’s tumultuous Presidency, a group of Australian applied linguists met weekly via Zoom to discuss Claire Kramsch’s latest book, Language as Symbolic Power. As linguistics and language educators, we were a close fit for the book’s intended audience. Our weekly interactions, our unresolved questions, our resistances were distilled in a weekly e-mail to the author, provoking gen…
The myth of job readiness? Written communication, employability, and the 'skills gap' in higher education
Recent developments in higher education have seen a strong emphasis placed on making graduates ‘job ready’ for their work in the professions. A driver of this agenda has been the many mass-scale surveys conducted with business and industry about the abilities and general employability of graduates. This Australian-based study is focused on perceptions and attitudes around one such ability – professional writing skills. ‘Discourse-based interviews…
Credit-Based Discipline Specific English for Academic Purposes Programmes in Higher Education
In the UK, North America and Australia, credit-bearing discipline specific English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses are seen as a challenge to remedial views of English as a Second Language and a key element in revitalizing a profession on the periphery of the institution. However, the EAP field has to confront not only institutional challenges to its acceptability as a discipline but also tensions within the field. In this article we examine …
The myth of job readiness? Written communication, employability, and the 'skills gap' in higher education
Recent developments in higher education have seen a strong emphasis placed on making graduates ‘job ready’ for their work in the professions. A driver of this agenda has been the many mass-scale surveys conducted with business and industry about the abilities and general employability of graduates. This Australian-based study is focused on perceptions and attitudes around one such ability – professional writing skills. ‘Discourse-based interviews…
Credit-Based Discipline Specific English for Academic Purposes Programmes in Higher Education
In the UK, North America and Australia, credit-bearing discipline specific English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses are seen as a challenge to remedial views of English as a Second Language and a key element in revitalizing a profession on the periphery of the institution. However, the EAP field has to confront not only institutional challenges to its acceptability as a discipline but also tensions within the field. In this article we examine …
The myth of job readiness? Written communication, employability, and the 'skills gap' in higher education
Recent developments in higher education have seen a strong emphasis placed on making graduates ‘job ready’ for their work in the professions. A driver of this agenda has been the many mass-scale surveys conducted with business and industry about the abilities and general employability of graduates. This Australian-based study is focused on perceptions and attitudes around one such ability – professional writing skills. ‘Discourse-based interviews…
Claire Kramsch
In 2020 amidst the COVID-19 crisis, and in the final year of Donald Trump’s tumultuous Presidency, a group of Australian applied linguists met weekly via Zoom to discuss Claire Kramsch’s latest book, Language as Symbolic Power. As linguistics and language educators, we were a close fit for the book’s intended audience. Our weekly interactions, our unresolved questions, our resistances were distilled in a weekly e-mail to the author, provoking gen…
Multiple perspectives on group work in a multilingual context
Group assignments are widely used in higher education for a range of educational reasons. Although there is a large body of research on the merits of group work and factors that may contribute to successful group work, less is known about students’ and teachers’ perspectives, particularly when groups are composed of students from diverse linguistic backgrounds. The current qualitative study investigated students’ and teachers’ perspectives on gro…
Sociology (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (2 works) · Higher education (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Medical education (2 works) · Social science (2 works)