Integrating Academic Literacy Skills in an Elective Intermediate Accounting Subject

Evans, Elaine; Rigby, Brendan

doi:10.5539/ass.v4n3p59

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“…Accounting curricula prioritises the development of students' written communication proficiency (Sin, Jones and Petocz, 2007;Evans and Rigby, 2008;Graham, Hampton and Willett, 2009;Craig and McKinney, 2010). Oral communication instruction tends to concentrate on students' oral presentation and speaking skills (Grace and Gilsdorf, 2004;Kerby and Romine, 2009;Miller and Stone, 2009).…”

Section: The Current Approach To Accounting Students' Listening Develmentioning

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Developing Accounting Students' Listening Skills: Barriers, Opportunities and an Integrated Stakeholder Approach

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Lightbody

Whait

2013

Accounting Education

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Accountants and employers of accounting graduates consider listening to be among the most important communication skills that graduates possess. However, accounting education practices that develop students' listening skills are uncommon. Further, in the case of listening development, the current approach of prescribing that educators do more to rectify students' skill deficiencies overlooks barriers that prevent greater incorporation of listening instruction in the accounting curriculum. An alternative integrated stakeholder approach to develop students' listening skills is proposed. Informed by a broad range of education literature, the approach identifies cross-disciplinary listening development best practice and barriers to the widespread implementation of such practices in the typical accounting programme, before determining and assigning interrelated listening development roles to key stakeholders who will benefit from improved student listening. While student listening development is feasible under the proposed approach, shared contributions by accounting students, the profession and educators are needed to achieve enhanced skills outcomes.

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Section: The Current Approach To Accounting Students' Listening Develmentioning

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Developing Accounting Students' Listening Skills: Barriers, Opportunities and an Integrated Stakeholder Approach

Stone

Lightbody

Whait

2013

Accounting Education

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“…They acknowledge that the evidence would have been more convincing if they used a control group but felt that ethically they could not de-emphasise writing skills in one group of students, given their importance (Reinstein and Houston, 2004, p. 55). Evans and Rigby (2008) describe a project that sought to integrate academic literacy skills in an elective intermediate accounting subject and to assess whether students' skills had in fact improved. One of the objectives of the subject was to help students to develop reading and writing skills for further study and for the workplace.…”

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Evidence of improvement in accounting students' communication skills

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2011

International Journal of Educational Management

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -With large numbers of overseas students enrolled in university accounting courses in Australia, there is a growing trend in the postgraduate accounting courses to approach the problem of language and communication difficulties by offering discipline-specific language training through an embedded curriculum approach in collaboration with English language specialists. This raises a general question about the nature of evidence required to demonstrate that students' professional language skills have been enhanced by these interdisciplinary programs. The paper aims to address the basic question: what evidence is available about the effectiveness of programs that align English language with disciplinary teaching? Design/methodology/approach -The purpose of the paper is to review existing research to discover the nature of evidence that is available to address the effectiveness of programs that align English language with disciplinary teaching. Findings -In the area of accounting research, it is very difficult to unbundle the effects of improvement in communication skills from improved understanding of discipline content. Research limitations/implications -At a subject level, language interventions could pay more attention to the attributes of "good" evidence, while at a program level a suite of data sources may support a persuasive argument for improvement in students' communication skills. Practical implications -If associations between integration and language improvement can be established through quantitative and qualitative research methods and reliable evidence for this can be presented to educational policy makers, then interdisciplinary approaches may be seen as valid alternatives to the more readily available (and cheaper) "bolt-on programs" at university-wide levels, where language support is given separately from discipline content. Originality/value -The research addressed the question of whether there is evidence of the effectiveness of initiatives that align English language with disciplinary teaching in accounting. The answer is "yes". It was gathered from a variety of research methods including experimentation, use of available data, diagnostic tests and sel...

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Integrating Academic Literacy Skills in an Elective Intermediate Accounting Subject

Cited by 2 publications

References 11 publications

Developing Accounting Students' Listening Skills: Barriers, Opportunities and an Integrated Stakeholder Approach

Developing Accounting Students' Listening Skills: Barriers, Opportunities and an Integrated Stakeholder Approach

Evidence of improvement in accounting students' communication skills

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