INTEGRATING LANGUAGE SKILLS INTO POINTS OF DISCUSSION: An Interpersonal Communication Approach

Acknowledgments This book is based on our Overseas Collaborative Research Schema, undertaken in Australian social contexts. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to our research colleague, Professor Helen Borland, for being a research partner to discuss further any idea emerged from the beginning up to the end of the research, for her encouragement and strong continuous support over years in our research. We are indebted to the children, their families, and teachers, community activists who welcomed us into their homes, classrooms and in the community centre. We wish also to acknowledge the support of the Australian Government, and the support of the Victoria University particularly the School of Communication and the Arts Fund for the financial support to complete this research. We would also like to address our deepest recognition to the following persons: Dr. Mark Garner from University of Roehampton, UK for his marvellous comments in theorising our study in an appropriate approach and making more arguments connected from one to the others as a unity piece of academic writings, Professor Marilyn Martin-Jones from UK for her helpful guidance to be consistent in the way to write an academic work and to translate accurately from the original sources, and Dr. Howard Nicholas from Australia for his arguments of how importance of providing evidence of the claims made throughout the research