Inaugural Independent Learning Association Conference 2003 University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia 13 + 14 September 2003

Conference Proceedings

INTRODUCTION

The Proceedings for the 2003 Conference is available as separate electronic papers below, or as a hard-copy publication (of limited numbers) which can be acquired by contacting John Jones-Parry for NZD$40.00.

The publication has been officially registered (ISSN 1176-7480), was published on 20 September 2004, and represents:

• Keynote presentations
• Papers that were successfully submitted by presenters for peer review.

All authors and co-authors from the 2003 Conference will be posted a complimentary copy of the Proceedings and need to contact John Jones-Parry if their address has changed since the conference.

All were presented at the Inaugural Independent Learning Association Conference held at the University of Melbourne 13th and 14th September 2003.

The papers reflect the aim of the conference to enable emerging, academics and practitioners to engage with their more experienced colleagues.

When referring to the proceedings or any of the articles published in it, consult the following referencing standard

These papers were edited by a small team of expert volunteers to whom we are indebted. After review the papers were edited and put into a format suitable for both hardcopy and web-based publication. For volunteering to do this we acknowledge with gratitude the expertise and tenacity of Helen de Silva-Joyce.

To those who submitted papers, both successfully and unsuccessfully we also offer our thanks.

It is important to acknowledge the contribution of Sponsors to this conference:
AMES (NSW), AMES (VIC), Bookery, ESL Sales & Marketing (CUP), English Australia, IELTS Australia, Modern English Teacher, NCELTR, Palgrave Macmillan, Pearson Education, Protea Textware, Manukau Institute of Technology, and Unitec New Zealand

Finally our thanks to all those who attended the conference. We are looking forward immensely to meeting and learning from them again at the second conference at Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland in September 2005.