Staff Profiles - Andrea Paul
Lecturer
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Qualifications: MA App Ling, BA, BFA, Dip Ed
Student Academic Support Unit SASU
c/o Clinical Teaching Programs Office
Monash Medical Centre
246 Clayton Rd
Clayton VIC 3168
Tel: + 61 3 9594 7881
Fax: + 61 3 95946670
Email: Andrea.Paul@med.monash.edu.au
Background:
Andrea joined Monash in 2006 from University of Melbourne. Her academic background is in Applied Linguistics and Education. She has seventeen years experience providing language development through discipline specific content. This includes development, coordination and implementation of a three-year immersion program in Japan, under and post-graduate student support in biomedical science in both clinical and campus based settings, and the development, administration, delivery and assessment of programs and credit bearing subjects at under and post-graduate levels. In her time at Monash, Andrea has developed programs and curriculum to support the teaching and learning of clinical communication skills
Research Interests:
A key area of investigation is into spoken communication and the direct relationship between discourse features and their effects in social interaction.
- Interdisciplinary clinical teaching and learning
- Intercultural and workplace communication skills
- Discipline based student support
Recent Publications:
Paul, A. (2007) ‘IELTS as a Predictor of Academic Language Performance. Part 2: Case studies of learner language’ IELTS Research Report 7 Australia & British Council joint publication
Nishide, L. & Paul A. (2006) ‘Staging Musicals in the ESL/EFL Classroom’ The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. XII, No. 12, December 2006 http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Nishide-Musicals.html
Paul, A., Nishide, L. & Churchill E. (1998) Sequencing a Content Course with Limited Contact Hours. Learning Through Two Languages: Research & Practice. Editors: Marshall Childs & Michael Bostwick. Katoh Gakuen
Current Projects:
Paul, A. A Medico Linguistics Approach in Clinical Skills Teaching [in progress]
Paul A., Gilbert, K. & Schmidt, E. Collaborative Clinical Skills Support Programs in an Internationalized MBBS Curriculum [in progress]
Paul, A. ‘Fostering interaction: Appraisal in non-native speaker discourse’ [in progress]
Zenuk, L. & Paul A ‘Achieving interaction: teaching conversation to second language learners’
Paul, A. & Zenuk, L. ‘Assessing Spoken Interaction in Discussion’ [in progress]
Paul, A. & Foote, A. ‘A language guide to clinical skills’ [in progress]
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