Ms Monica Behrend

My role as Research Education Adviser (International) is to work directly with research students who are International and for whom English is an additional lanaguge (EAL). The main focus is to develop appropriate academic/research discourse skills for written and oral communication of research. I work on all metropolitan campuses of the university.

For the twelve years before this specialisation, I worked as a Learning Adviser at Mawson Lakes in collaboration with the Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment, and, at Magill with the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences.

Prior to this, I had extensive experience as an educator in the secondary and tertiary sector in Australia and the Pacific. I taught secondary Mathematics, Science and English as a Second Language for 8 years and was a secondary teacher educator in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and the Solomon Islands for 9 years. While in the Solomon Islands I worked as an AusAid Mathematics Education consultant to establish a Secondary Teacher Education program.

I am currently completing my PhD in Education. My research is investigating what happens for transnational students in Hong Kong when online resources for academic writing are integrated into a copmutign course.

• Academic/research discourse
• Research writing for English as an Additional Language students
• Learning strategies (including online learning)

Association for Academic Language and Learning (AALL)

English as a Second Language Educators (ESLE)

Australian Systemic Functional Linguistic Association (ASFLA)

MA(Ed) (Sussex) Curriculum Development in Higher & Further Education 1983-1984

GradDip(TESOL) (UniSA) Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 1993-1994

GradDipTheolEd (Australian Lutheran College) 1995

BSc (Flinders) 1970-2

DipEd (Flinders) 1973

• Cultural and linguistic dimesions of developing academic writing skills online
• Enhancing research writing outcomes for International and EAL higher degree by research students
• Student Learning in Higher Education

Behrend, MB & Turnbull, B 2005, 'Developing writing skills among transnational Hong Kong Information Security students by using online resources', paper presented at the Computer, Information, and System Security Education Conference, Technology Park, Adeladie, November 2005.

Nafalski, A., Berk, M. & Davenport, T. 1999 Beyond technical proficiency - development of generic graduate qualities in an engineering subject. paper presented at the Australasian Association of Engineering Education Confernce 1999: Unfolding landscapes in Engineering Education, Adelaide, September.

McCausland, H., Wache, D. & Berk, M. 1999, Computer literacy: an orientation strategy, its implementation and outcomes, paper presented at the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Annual International Conference 1999: Cornerstones: What do we value in Higher Education? Melbourne University, July.

Berk, M., Hart, B., Hands, D. & Boerema, D. 1998, Writing Practical Reports: Resource Materials for Engineering Students, University of South Australia, Adelaide.

Berk, M. & Hart, B. 1997, 'Student Resource Materials for Practical Report Writing in Engineering', in Proceedings of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Ballarat, Australia, pp. 66-70.

Gillham, D., Hall, C., Hill. P, Berk, M. 1997, Hypertext and Drug Calculations: A Response to an Educational Challenge in a Changing World, presented at International Council of Nurses 21st Quadrennial Congress, Vancouver.

Gillham, D., Berk, M., Hill, P. & Hall, C. 1996, Medical Calculations: developing a multimedia resource for nurses, presented at COSINE (Science in Nursing Education) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia.

Behrend, M. & Maneipuri, J. 1990, Studies for Teaching Mathematics (Units 1 - 6), Solomon Islands College of Higher Education, Honiara.

Behrend, M. 1985, An Evaluation of the Implementation of the Secondary Mathematics Curriculum in Papua New Guinea, Department of Education, Port Moresby, PNG.

Behrend, M. 1982, Calculators for Teachers, University of Technology, Lae, PNG.