"Classroom Culture" - A guide to making university learning simpler and more enjoyable

The Center for Publishing and Education Research (IPER) in collaboration with Dan Tri Publishing House published the book Lecture Hall Culture - A Handbook for Studying at University, by the group of authors Jean Brick, Maria Herke and Deanna Wong.

As the name suggests, the book is a useful and necessary handbook to help students have an overview of university culture.

At the same time, the book also provides knowledge about university learning skills: listening skills, reading skills, group work/participation in practice/seminars, critical thinking, exploiting knowledge sources, essay writing skills, expressing personality in presenting learning content...

Cover of the book "Classroom Culture" (Photo: Quangvanbooks).

The book consists of 25 chapters, divided into 5 parts.

Part 1 - Introduction to university learning culture : The authors help readers (especially new students) get the most general overview of the university environment, basic concepts in the classroom (lecturers, students, courses, course structure, curriculum), and the most important skill - self-study.

Part 2 - Studying at university : The book provides all the skills that students need to practice to achieve the best learning results: listening to lectures, reading, working in groups...

Part 3 - Cultivating thinking and skills : The group of authors analyzes the thinking that helps students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills in the classroom.

Part 4 - Expressing your own voice and referring to the voices of other authors : Each type of text in the classroom will have different characteristics. The authors will answer the question: How to highlight personal personality in the text, while ensuring that the text's characteristics are correctly expressed?

Part 5 - Academic Writing : Writing is not only a skill but also an important content in the classroom. In each course, students have to write a final essay, thesis/project, etc. So what is the key to good writing?

After its release, Lecture Hall Culture received much attention and recommendations from prestigious lecturers at many universities in Vietnam: Hanoi Pedagogical University, Hanoi National University, Academy of Management and Education,...

With the values ​​it brings to students, Lecture Hall Culture is truly a useful handbook, making university study simpler and more enjoyable.

Jean Brick has over 25 years of experience teaching and researching academic communication. She has worked in Australia, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Kiribati, Tonga, Sri Lanka and the Maldives with students from a wide range of backgrounds and abilities.

Her research focuses on academic communication, particularly in the sciences, and the historical use of metaphorical language.

Maria Herke is a senior lecturer and researcher in the Department of Languages, Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). Her main research interests are communication strategies in a variety of professional contexts, including academic settings.

Maria has presented her research at international conferences and has published numerous articles and books. She teaches linguistics and academic writing to undergraduates, graduate students and postgraduates.

Deanna Wong teaches language and academic communication at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). She is particularly interested in how the characteristics of written and spoken communication have changed to accommodate online communication.

Her research and publications explore online communication and face-to-face interactions using corpus linguistics methods.

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