Executive Officers
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Annette Turney
Australian Catholic University
Annette Turney is a Lecturer in Language and Literacy Education. She is currently researching student-made digital media in tertiary science disciplines. Her most recent publication is 'Approaching complex multimodal phenomena in educational settings - insights from theory'.
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Dr Damon Thomas
University of Queensland
Damon is a Senior Lecturer in Literacy Education in the School of Education at the University of Queensland. His research interests include the development, teaching, and assessment of writing, argumentation, and dialogic pedagogies. Before starting his academic career, Damon was a primary school teacher in Launceston, Tasmania.
Advisory Committee
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Brian Dare
Director of Lexis Education
Brian is an education consultant with extensive experience and expertise in the role of language in teaching and learning across the curriculum and at all levels of schooling. As a director of Lexis Education, he has co-authored a number of train-the trainer courses centred on language and literacy, all of which are underpinned by an explicit language-based pedagogy based on MAK Halliday’s functional model of language.
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Professor Emerita Beverley Derewianka
University of Wollongong
Over the decades, Beverly has taught at primary, secondary and tertiary levels in the fields of TESOL and mainstream literacy. She researches in the area of students’ language development and teachers’ classroom practices.
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Professor Pauline Jones
University of Wollongong
Professor, Language in Education at the University of Wollongong where she researches and teaches in the areas of English curriculum, subject-specific literacies and pedagogic discourse in primary and secondary schools.
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Dr Trish Weekes
CEO, Literacy Works
Trish is a researcher, consultant and writer who specialises in disciplinary literacy in secondary schools. Her publishing company, Literacy Works, creates subject-specific literacy resources for secondary schools. She has extensive experience as a secondary school teacher, literacy consultant, academic and researcher in SFL.
Professional Learning and Materials Publication consortium
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Professor Pauline Jones
University of Wollongong
Professor, Language in Education at the University of Wollongong where she researches and teaches in the areas of English curriculum, subject-specific literacies and pedagogic discourse in primary and secondary schools.
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Dr Kathy Rushton
University of Sydney
Dr. Kathy Rushton is an experienced TESOL and classroom teacher having worked in primary and secondary settings, with adults learning English and with pre-service teachers in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work (SSESW) https://fdp.edsw.usyd.edu.au/users/143. Her research interests are around the development of language, literacy and translanguaging, especially in culturally and linguistically diverse socio-economically disadvantaged communities.
Centre for Research and Policy in Language Education
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Professor Len Unsworth
Australian Catholic University
Professor Len Unsworth is the Research Director of Educational Semiotics in English and Literacy Pedagogy in the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE) at the Australian Catholic University (ACU) in Sydney. His key research interests include literacy and learning in school curriculum areas; literature for children and adolescents; literacy development in the English curriculum K-12; and the pedagogic role of explicit knowledge about language and the meaning-making resources of images and image-language interaction in both paper and digital media texts.
Higher Education and Initial Teacher Education Group
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Associate Professor Erika Matruglio
University of Wollongong
Erika Matruglio is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her research explores connections between language, knowledge, and values and the disciplinary bases of these connections using the complementary theories of Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory. Her publications engage with topics such as the nature of classroom discourse, conditions which enable cumulative knowledge building, disciplinarity and the demands of writing in the disciplines.
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Dr Germana Eckert
University of Technology, Sydney
Dr Germana Eckert is a specialist in language teaching methodology and lectures in the TESOL and Applied Linguistics program at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has worked in the TESOL and LOTE fields both in Australia and overseas as a teacher, curriculum writer, manager and teacher trainer to primary, secondary and adult education students. Her research interests include the integration of plurilingual perspectives of learning in SFL genre-based approaches to language and literacy pedagogy.
Teacher Voices Forum
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Kate Cash
Kardinia International College
Currently the Head of Department (English) at Kardinia International College, Kate has worked as an English teacher, leader and Literacy Specialist across state, catholic and private schools. She has supported teachers in a range of curriculum areas in their development of language knowledge and explicit language teaching practices.
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Lynette Lingard
Literacy Consultant, Focus Literacy
Lynette currently works as an independent EAL/D and literacy consultant and is based in Queensland, Australia. Her career spans over 24 years as an EAL teacher, advisor and consultant, having worked in primary and secondary schools as well as specialist EAL centres in the public education system.
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Margaret Turnbull
International Commitee
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Dr Claire Acevedo
Educational Researcher
Dr Claire Acevedo is an Australian educator now based in the United Kingdom where she obtained her PhD in applied linguistics at the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) at the Open University. Her current research association is with the Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, where she is an external member of the Forum for Multilingualism research group (ForMuLE) in the Faculty of Education.
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Dr David Rose
Honorary Associate, University of Sydney.
Dr David Rose is an Honorary Associate of the University of Sydney. He is the Director of the Reading to Learn program which trains teachers in primary, secondary and university levels around the world in an effective methodology for integrating literacy into teaching practice in all areas of the curriculum (www.readingtolearn.com.au).
Outreach Team
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Marie Laubie
General Manager, Lexis Education
As the General Manager of Lexis Education, Marie is responsible for the strategic direction and operational support across all business activities. Marie has extensive experience in developing stakeholder relations and implementing key processes and procedures coupled with business management and marketing expertise. She has a Masters in International Business Law from the University of Paris Sorbonne.
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Didem Aydin
Australian Catholic University
Didem is an Associate Lecturer at the Australian Catholic University. She has taught across early childhood, primary, secondary, and tertiary levels in Hong Kong, the United States, Turkey, and Australia. Her research focuses on Systemic Functional Linguistics and misinformation correction.