Publications & Projects

Projects

Syllabus Development for teaching English as a Foreign Language, Years 7, 8 and 9, Vanuatu Ministry of Education.
Investigating Aboriginal students’ use of Aboriginal English in their school environments.
English test item writer, for Cambridge Assessment (UK) writing test items for Medical and Allied Health Occupational English Test (OET) candidates.
Senior syllabus redevelopment Languages Literature Review for the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority – providing an evaluation of the Qld curriculum and a review of Chines, French, German, Indonesian or Japanese syllabus documents as taught in Victoria, Western Australia, New Zealand, British Columbia (Canada) and Scotland.
Evaluation of training materials for Aboriginal Health Workers in WA and to develop more culturally and linguistically appropriate materials.

Publications

Rochecouste, J., Oliver, R., & Bennell. D. (2014) Is there cultural safety in Australian universities? The International Journal of Higher Education. Vol 3(2), pp154-156.
Oliver, R., McKay, G., & Rochecouste, J. (2003) The acquisition of colloquial terms by Western Australian primary school children from non-English speaking backgrounds. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
Rochecouste, J. (2002) Adjusting to an Australian Research Culture. In C. vanden Driesen & S. Nandan (eds) Austral-Asian Encounters: From Literature and Women’s Studies to Politics and Tourism. New Dehli: Prestige.
Kaldor, S., & Rochecouste, J. (2002) General Academic Writing and Discipline Specific Academic Writing , Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 25 (2) 29-47.

Presentations

Rochecouste, J. (2001) Resisting western academic writing conventions. Paper presented at 12th Triennial conference of the Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), Canberra 9-14 July 2001.
Rochecouste, J., & Kaldor, S. (2000) Teaching higher level academic writing skills. Paper presented at the Communication Skills in University Education (CSUE) Conference, September 2000, Perth.

Workshops

A workshop entitled ‘Linguistic Aspects of the Clinical Examination’ to candidates for the Medical Objective Structured Clinical Exam (MOSCE) at Northern Hospital, Epping, Victoria.