What academic language and learning advisers bring to the scholarship of teaching and learning: problems and possibilities for dialogue with the disciplines

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 269-280

  Chanock, Kate ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic language and learning; Quality assurance; Scholarship of teaching and learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449098679     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360701494294     Document Type: Article

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