Dr Judith Rochecouste
PhD (Linguistics), MA (Linguistics), BA (Hons 1^st class)

I coordinate HED5001, a unit within the Graduate Certificate of Higher Education. I also provide assistance to staff applying for Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) citations, awards and grants and for those applying for a Monash Vice Chancellor’s awards. My own academic background is in linguistics and applied linguistics having taught these subjects at the University of Western Australia and at Edith Cowan University in Perth.

My research interests include language variation (particularly French based creole languages, and dialect difference especially Aboriginal English), phonetics and phonology, Aboriginal education, tertiary education and language and the law (particularly the language of the courtroom).

My current grants include an investigation of Cross cultural communication in the legal and justice systems: Aboriginal English speakers and non-indigenous service providers funded by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and a Carrick Institute grant Addressing the on-going English language growth of international students.

My specific teaching and learning interests involve teaching diverse student populations and the experience of International students in Australian universities. Among my strategies to address diversity is the identification of barriers to learning in prepared and prescribed materials, whether linguistic, conceptual or cultural, and addressing these to ensure the understanding of all students.

Conference Papers and Publications

• Johnson, A., Rochecouste, J., and Kalashnik, O. (2007) Effects of Task-type on Self-Efficacy and Student Perceptions of Autonomy. Paper presented at Exploring Theory, Enhancing Practice: Autonomy across the Disciplines, Independent Learning Association Conference. October 2007, Chiba, Japan
• Perry, M. & Rochecouste, J. (2007) Assisting Higher Education Students to Improve the Quality of their written assignments: a Teaching Case Study. Paper presented at the 8th International Research Conference on Quality, Innovation and Knowledge Management New Delhi, India, 11-14 February.
• Rochecouste, J. (2006) Evidential Strategies in the Courtroom. Paper presented at the Justice Research Day, Murdoch University, WA, November 2006.
• Rochecouste, J. (2006) Constructing Taxonomies for Graduate Writing. In the Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing, Athens, June 22-24.
• Sharifian, F., Konigsberg, P., Collard, G., Malcolm, I., & Rochecouste, J. (2005) What happened to the apple? A report on a capacity building project for educators of Aboriginal English speaking students. Paper presented at the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, 30th Annual Congress, University of Melbourne, September 25-28.
• Oliver, R., Haig, Y., McFarlane, J., & Rochecouste, J. (2005) 'Tackling Talk: teaching and assessing oral language in mainstream classrooms'. Paper presented at the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, 30th Annual Congress, University of Melbourne, September 25-28.
• Rochecouste, J. & Oliver, R. (2005) 'Evidential strategies used by expert witnesses'. Paper presented at the 7th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law, Cardiff University, Cardiff, 1-4 July.

Refereed Journals

• Oliver, R., Purdie, N. & Rochecouste, J. (2005) Affective Aspects of Foreign Language Learning: Beliefs, Attitudes, and Efficacy. Babel, 40(2).
• Sharifian, F., Rochecouste, J., Malcolm, I., Königsberg, P, & Collard, G. (2005) Cultural understandings in comprehending Aboriginal English texts, TESOL in Context Volume 15, Number 1, 2005, pages, 9-12.
• Oliver, R., & Haig, Y., & Rochecouste, J. (2005) Communicative Competence in Oral Language Assessment. Language and Education. 19 (3) pp212-222.
• Sharifian, F., Rochecouste, J., & Malcolm, I. (2005) It was all a bit confusing? Comprehending Aboriginal English Texts. Language, Culture, and Curriculum, 17(3).
• Rochecouste, J., Sharifian, F., Quartermaine, L., Pollard, C., & Lewis, J. (2004) Aboriginal Health and Nutrition process of developing new materials to train Aboriginal Health Workers in Western Australia. Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 44 (2) pp179-201.

Books and Chapters

• 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, pp 408-421, New Dehli: Prestige.
• Rochecouste, J. (2002) A Shared World of Communication. In Department of Education and Training (eds) Ways of Being Ways of Talk, pp61-66, Department of Education and Training, Perth: Western Australia

Awards

• Edith Cowan University PGA Award of Excellence in Postgraduate Support in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.
• Edith Cowan University PGA Award in Research Leadership in 2001.

Grants and Commissions