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DR MICHELE DE COURCY



Contact Details

Organization: Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Position: SENIOR LECTURER IN TESOL
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Homepage: www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/cgi-bin/public/staff_profile.cgi?id=8041
Work: 8344 8377
Fax: 8344 8612
Room: 5:05
Level: 05
Building: Doug Mcdonell Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Applied Linguistics Australia
English as a Second Language (ESL); Languages Australia
Curriculum studies Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom The University of Reading Research
New Zealand Victoria University of Wellington Research
Canada University of British Columbia Research
Finland University of Vaasa Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Associate of Music Australia The University of Queensland
Bachelor of Arts The University of Queensland
Graduate Diploma in Education The University of Queensland
Title Not Known Griffith University
Master of Philosophy Griffith University
Doctor of Philosophy Griffith University

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

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 2008

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Disrupting preconceptions: Challenges to pre-service teachers' beliefs about ESL children


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 188-203
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  • Editorial


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Post-script
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 3-6
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  • Multilingualism, literacy and the acquisition of English as an additional language among Iraqi refugees in regional Victoria
    Year: 2007
    Journal: University of Sydney Papers in TESOL
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 1-31
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  • Papers from the 2005 ALAA conference
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-3
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Output-related teaching strategies emphasized by late immersion students


    Year: 2007
    Event name: Fourth International Conference on Language Teacher Education
    Conference Publication: Voice and Vision in Language Teacher Education: Selected papers from the Fourth International Conference on Language Teacher Education
    Page numbers: 93-110
    Publisher: Centre for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota(Minneapolis)
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  • Reflections on ESL learners: Disrupting preconceptions
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Fourth International Conference on Language Teacher Education
    Conference Publication: Voice and Vision in Language Teacher Education: Selected papers from the Fourth International Conference on Language Teacher Education
    Page numbers: 35-51
    Publisher: Centre for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota(Minneapolis)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • The effect of literacy in Hebrew on the acquisition of English
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Babel
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 4-9 & 38
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Policy challenges for bilingual and immersion education in Australia: literacy and language choices for users of Aboriginal languages, Auslan and Italian
    Year: 2005
    Journal: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
    Volume: 8(2&3)
    Issue: Heritage / Community Language
    Page numbers: 178-187
    Publisher: Multilingual Matters
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  • The effect of learning a new language on ESL teachers' beliefs about language pedagogy
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Language & Literacy Matters
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 7-12
    Publisher: CAE Book Groups(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Fostering Language Learning in Science and Mathematics Classrooms: Students' Perceptions
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Fostering schools that learn
    Conference Publication: TED-ELTC ETeMS Conference, 2005, "Fostering schools that learn
    Page numbers: 1-25
    Publisher: English Language Teaching Centre, Malaysia(Kuala Lumpur)
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Output-related teaching strategies emphasized by late immersion students
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Levon Institute(Vaasa)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Language Teachers' Experiences of Language Learning and Their Effect on Practice
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Creating Teacher Community: the Third International Conference on Language Teacher Education
    Conference Publication: Creating Teacher Commmunity: Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Language Teacher Education
    Page numbers: 259-27
    Publisher: University of Minnesota(Minneapolis)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • French takes over your mind: private speech and making sense in immersion programs
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Educational Thought
    Volume: 37
    Page numbers: 349-368
    Publisher: University of Calgary(Calgary)
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  • Review of D. Christian and F. Genesee, "Bilingual education: case studies in TESOL series"
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Canadian Modern Language Review
    Volume: 59
    Page numbers: 482-484
    Publisher: University of Toronto Press(Toronto)
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • Implementing a bilingual program
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Association of Independent Schools of Victoria(South Yarra)
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  • Learners' experiences of immersion education: Case studies of French and Chinese
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Multilingual Matters(Clevedon)
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Journal Articles

  • Children from diverse backgrounds in an immersion programme
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Language and Education
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 112-127
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