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Contact Details

Organization: Languages and Linguistics
Position: RESEARCH FELLOW
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Work: 03-83445206
Room: 521
Level: 05
Building: Arts Centre
Campus: Parkville

Languages

Languages

Language Proficiency
German Speak, Read & Write
Afrikaans Speak, Read & Write

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
PhD Language Teaching and Learning The University of Auckland 01-Jan-2007
MA Language Teaching and Learning The University of Auckland 01-Jan-2002

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand (ALANZ) Member and Treasurer 01-Jan-2007 31-Dec-2007
Member International Language Testing Association (ILTA) Member 20-Apr-2004 31-Dec-2009
Member Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) Member 18-Apr-2006 31-Dec-2009
Member American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Member 26-Apr-2005 31-Dec-2009

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) University of Auckland Awarded annually to the best theses accross the whole university. 31-Dec-2007
Other (Award) Cambridge University Press/Language Teaching journal Runner-up: Christopher Brumfit dissertation award. Awarded to PhD research that make significant contribution to SLA/FL teaching and learning 12-Sep-2008
Scholarship University of Michigan SPAAN Fellowship for Studies in Second or Foreign Language Assessment 17-Dec-2007
Scholarship University of Michigan SPAAN Fellowship for Studies in Second or Foreign Language Assessment 16-Dec-2005
Scholarship The Language Learning Dissertation Grant Program. Awarded annually to up to ten PhD candidates in the language sciences, contested worldwide 02-Jan-2006
Scholarship American Association of Applied Linguistics Educational Testing Service Graduate Student Scholarship for top PhD applicant presenting a paper at the annual conference of AAAL. 21-Mar-2006
Scholarship American Association of Applied Linguistics Scholarship from AAAL to attend Summer Institute in Applied Linguistics at Penn State University. 31-May-2005
Scholarship International Language Testing Association Travel award to attend the Language Testing Research Colloquium, Ottowa. Awarded to two students internationally per annum. 03-Jan-2005
Scholarship Ministry of Education, New Zealand Bright Future Top Achiever Scholarship - valid for 36 months - awarded to top ten percent of doctoral candidates across all disciplines. 02-Aug-2004
Scholarship University of Auckland University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship. Contested across all disciplines, awarded to applicants with the highest GPA. 31-Jan-2004
Other (Award) National Academic Advising Association NACADA research grant 31-Mar-2008

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
ADVISING STUENTS OF DIAGNOSTIC WRITING ASSESSMENT OUTCOMES: A COMPARISON OF TWO MODELS Chief Investigator NACADA Research Support Program 14/05/2008

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF TASK TYPE ON THE DISCOURSE PRODUCED BY STUDENTS AT VARIOUS SCORE LEVELS IN THE TOEFL IBT WRITING TEST Chief Investigator EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE 01/05/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Collaborating with ESP Stakeholders in Rating Scale Validation: The Case of the ICAO Rating Scale


    Year: 2009
    Journal: SPAAN Fellows Working Papers
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 21-46
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  • Diagnosing the Support Needs of Second Language Writers: Does the Time Allowance Matter?
    Year: 2009
    Journal: TESOL Quarterly
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 10
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  • The relative effectiveness of different types of direct written corrective feedback
    Year: 2009
    Journal: System
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 322-329
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  • The value of a focused approach to corrective feedback
    Year: 2009
    Journal: ELT Journal
    Volume: 63
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 204-211
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  • The value of a focused approach to corrective feedback
    Year: 2009
    Journal: ELT Journal
    Volume: 63
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 204-211
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Review of T. Lumley's book Assessing second language writing: The rater's perspective


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Assessing Writing
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 234-235
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  • The assessment of academic style in EAP writing: The case of the rating scale


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Melbourne Papers in Language Testing
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 34-67
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  • The value of written corrective feedback for migrant and international students


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Language Teaching Research
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 409-431
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  • Diagnostic writing ability: A rating scale for accuracy, fluency and complexity
    Year: 2008
    Journal: New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-24
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

Reports

  • Do empirically developed rating scales function differently to conventional rating scales for academic writing?
    Year: 2007
    Customer: English Language Institute
    Publisher: University of Michigan(Ann Arbor)
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Publications in 2006

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Publications in 2005

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Publications in 2004

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