My Teachers
Professor Christopher N Candlin
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Formal name: Christopher N Candlin Position: Senior Research Professor Emeritus Personal Title: Professor Qualifications: BA Oxf., MA (Hons) Oxf., MPhil Yale., DipEd(TESOL) Lond., PhD h.c. Jyväskylä, FRSA Email: ccandlin@optusnet.com.au Web Pages:
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Associate Professor Felicity Cox
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Formal name: Felicity Cox Position: Associate Professor, Coordinator Bachelor of Speech and Hearing Sciences Personal Title: Associate Professor Qualifications: BA(Hons.) Dip Ed Macq., PhD Macq. Telephone: +61 2 9850 8767 Fax: +61 2 9850 9352 Email: Felicity.Cox@mq.edu.au Location: C5A 547 Web Pages:
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Profile
Felicity is a phonetician who has been teaching phonetics and phonology in tertiary education since 1983. She has held lecturing positions at Sydney University's Faculty of Health Sciences and Macquarie University. Felicity has been at Macquarie since 1991 and is co-convenor of the Bachelor of Speech and Hearing Sciences. Her postgraduate teaching and supervision involves students from the Master of Applied Linguistics, the Master of Communication Disorders, the Master of Speech and Language Pathology and the PhD program.
Research Interests
Felicity's main research interest is the sociophonetic examination of Australian English. Her work involves the acoustic analysis of speech sounds with the goal of addressing issues of accent history, evolution, variation and status.
Felicity is a member of The International Phonetic Association, The Australian Speech Science and Technology Association and the Australian Linguistic Society. She is also on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Linguistics.
A website dedicated to her work on Australian English can be found at http://clas.mq.edu.au/voices/
Current Grants:
2011 ARC Discovery Grant, $205,000 Phonological effects on the development of inflectional morphology, Cox, & Shattuck-Hufnagel
2010 ARC Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities Grant, $650,000 The Big Australian Speech Corpus:An Audio-Visual Speech Corpus of Australian English, Burnham, Cox, Butcher, Fletcher, Wagner, Epps, Ingram, Archiuli, Togneri, Rose, Kemp, Cutler, Dale, Kuratate, Powers, Cassidy, Grayden, Loakes, Bennamoun, Lewis, Goecke, Best, Bird, Ambikairajah, Hajek, Ishihara, Kinoshita, Tran, Chetty, Onslow
2009 Macquarie University Research Development Grant $34289 The Sydney Accent: Regional and Social Variation, Cox & Palethorpe
Dr Stephen H Moore
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Formal name: Stephen H Moore Position: Senior Lecturer and Director of Higher Degree Research, Department of Linguistics Personal Title: Dr Qualifications: BA UVic., M App Ling Macq., PhD Macq. Email: Stephen.Moore@mq.edu.au Web Pages: Selected Publications |
Profile
Stephen Moore has worked in the fields of English language teaching and TESOL / Applied Linguistics teacher education for over twenty years, and has lived and taught in Japan, Cambodia and Vietnam. His interest in critical linguistics led to Master's and PhD research on the language of The Economist magazine and issues of power, ideology and point of view in discourse. He worked as a senior researcher in the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) Research Centre prior to formally joining the Department of Linguistics in 2006. He is the Director of Higher Degree Research for the Department of Linguistics.
Stephen teaches across a wide range of subjects, including discourse, communicative grammar, Language for Specific Purposes research methods, and assessment. He supervises a number of doctoral students investigating TESOL-related topics.
Stephen's most recent funded research has related to two projects: (1) A discursive approach to developing the professional communication skills of accounting students; and (2) Perceptions of IELTS in Cambodia: A case study of test impact in a small developing country. Other active research interests include English in Cambodia; language teachers becoming researchers; and media discourse analysis (print and radio). He is an editorial board member of two TESOL journals and reviews articles for many top-tier applied linguistics and discourse-related journals.
Dr Jill Murray
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Formal name: Jill Murray Position: Lecturer Personal Title: Dr Qualifications: Bachelor of Science (USyd), Diploma in Education (Sydney Teachers’ College), Master of Science and Society (UNSW), Master of Applied Linguistics (USyd), PhD (Macquarie) Email: Jill.Murray@mq.edu.au Web Pages: Supervision |
Profile
Dr Jill Murray has been teaching in the Linguistics Department at Macquarie since 2002. Prior to joining the staff at Macquarie, she worked as a teacher, teacher educator, ELT materials writer, test developer and administrator, lecturer, and consultant to the ELICOS industry. She taught on the MA program in the Faculty of Arts at UNSW, managed a large program of community language teacher development for the Department of Education, and was chief administrator of the Combined Universities Language Test (CULT) and the Professional English Assessment for Teachers (PEAT). Between 2000 and 2007 she was head of the Language Teacher Education Department at UNSW Institute of Languages, where she developed and implemented pre-service and professional development courses for TESOL and LOTE teachers.
Jill completed her PhD, on the topic “Strategic competence and the discourse of classroom communicative activities”, in 2000.
Current Teaching Roles
Post graduate courses in 2009
- convenor and lecturer for LING 937 English Language teaching in its social context - distance and on-campus
- convenor and lecturer for LING906 Language Testing and Evaluation distance mode
- convenor and lecturer for LING 904 Pragmatics distance and on – campus modes
- lecturer for LING 912 Second language acquisition
Undergraduate courses in 2009
- Convenor and lecturer for LING 325 (Second Language Teaching and Learning.)
Research interests
Jill’s main research interests are:
- Teacher professional development
- Metaphor
- Teaching and learning pragmatics
In 2008, Jill took part in a research project on the teaching of pragmatics to overseas trained teachers in TAFE. Jill is a member of the Applied Linguistics and Language in Education (ALLE) Research Centre. She is a reviewer for Prospect and The Journal of Applied Linguistics
Supervision
Jill has supervised dissertations for the Master of Applied Linguistics /TESOL and currently Postgraduate Certificate in Linguistics Research, and also co-supervises doctoral students in areas relating to TESOL and pragmatics.
Associate Professor Mehdi Riazi
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Formal name: Abdol Mehdi Riazi Position: Associate Professor Personal Title: Associate Professor Qualifications: BA and MA Shiraz University; Ph.D. University of Toronto Email: Mehdi.Riazi@mq.edu.au Web Pages: |
Profile
Mehdi Riazi began his career as an English language instructor at Shiraz University, Iran and then as assistant and associate professor of Applied Linguistics upon obtaining his Ph.D. from University of Toronto, Canada. In July 2009 he joined the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University. He currently convenes two postgraduate units of language testing and evaluation (LING906) and research methods (LING905) and supervises both postgraduate certificate in research and doctoral dissertations. He is also Director of Higher Degree Research (HDR) in the department of linguistics.
He has successfully supervised 14 doctoral students, and currently has 8 under his supervision. He has supervised the theses of over 40 MA students.
His publications include authored and co-authored books on research, writing, and ESP courses. He has also written journal papers and book chapters and have presented extensively at conferences. He is on the editorial board of some journals including The Journal of Asian TEFL and was guest editor for the March 2010 Special Issue of TESL-EJ.
His current research focus is on the validity of the writing section of the large-scale English language proficiency tests (IELTS & TOEFL-iBT) which include two joint research projects with colleagues (Dr. John Knox and Dr. Jill Murray) in the department of linguistics.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Language Testing and Assessment
Academic Writing
Literacy in a Second Language
Research Methods
Language Teaching Methodology
Materials Development and Evaluation
Language Learning Strategies
Program Evaluation
Text Analysis
Teacher Education
Peter Roger
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Formal name: Peter Roger Position: Senior Lecturer Personal Title: Dr Qualifications: MB BS (Hons), Ph.D (Sydney) Email: Peter.Roger@mq.edu.au Web Pages: Selected Publications |
Profile
Peter Roger has taught in the Linguistics Department and the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research at Macquarie University since 1995. Prior to this, he worked as a medical doctor at the Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney, where he became interested in the assessment and rehabilitation of aphasia in linguistically diverse settings. He decided to pursue research in this area, and subsequently completed a Ph.D thesis on the topic of Linguistic Diversity and the Assessment of Aphasia.
For a number of years, Peter conducted a 'Medical English Program' for medical students from language backgrounds other than English, under the auspices of the Faculty of Medicine and the English Support Unit at the University of New South Wales. Since joining Macquarie University, Peter has taught undergraduate and postgraduate English for Academic Purposes, and has participated in the teaching of several units of the Master of Applied Linguistics program. He is currently convening LING 912 (Second Language Acquisition), and teaches on a number of other units, including LING 928 (Bilingualism), SPH 802 (Developmental and Acquired Language Disorders) and SPH 807 (Neurosciences for Speech Pathology).
Peter's research interests include interpreter-mediated interactions in health care settings, bilingual aphasia and the assessment of adult language disorders in contexts of linguistic and cultural diversity, English for Specific Purposes and individual differences in second language acquisition.
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Dr Britta Biedermann
MA Freiburg i. Brsg, PhD Macq.
ARC RESEARCH FELLOW
email : britta.biedermann@mq.edu.au
Homepage : https://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/members/profile.html?memberID=178
PROFILE
Brain impairment, e.g., through stroke, affects our ability to store words in our mental dictionary. This damage can alter the use of grammatical information (e.g., not being able to use irregular plural forms, e.g. producing 'child-s' instead of 'children'). Grammatical impairments hinder fundamental aspects of our social communication. Therefore, my current research project investigates how number information is represented in the lexicon. Theoretical models of speech production will be specified and evaluated regarding the cause of grammatical errors in acquired language impairments. The primary goal is to understand underlying representations and to use the outcome for a better diagnosis of language impairment and subsequently for more effective treatment.