RESEARCH PROFILE

ELSSA Centre academics are actively engaged in a number of research projects that investigate contemporary questions pertaining to language and literacy, teaching and learning, academic and professional discourses, and changing notions of knowledge, identity and culture.

MULTILINGUALISM & MULTILITERACIES

Multilingualism and Multiliteracies (M&M) is a research cluster formed in February 2006 by a transdisciplinary group of UTS researchers based at the ELSSA Centre and the Institute of International Studies.

We are investigating a range of real-world issues arising in Australia and abroad, as work and study environments become increasingly multilingual, multiliterate, and transcultural.

Our research projects examine change and contestation within language and literacy practices, with a particular interest in education discourses and cultural productions, locally and transnationally.

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KEY RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2006

Awards

Roslyn Appleby
Selected for the UTS Chancellor's list of outstanding PhD theses.

Ross Forman
Received award for excellence in educational research from the New South Wales Institute for Educational Research for his PhD thesis.

Teresa Dovey
“What purposes, specifically? Re-thinking purposes and specificity in the context of the ‘new vocationalism’” English for Specific Purposes. Vol. 25(4), pp. 387-402.

Cynthia Nelson
Guest editor of the international refereed Journal of Language, Identity, and Education. Special issue on ‘Queer inquiry in language education’. Vol. 5(1).

Caroline San Miguel
First named author of 'Clinically speaking: A communication skills program for students from non-English speaking backgrounds'. Nurse Education in Practice, Vol. 6(5), pp. 268-274.

For complete research details and citations to all publications or conference presentations, please see individual staff profiles.