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    • Dr Anne Thwaite

      Dr Anne Thwaite

Dr Anne Thwaite

Dr Anne Thwaite is a Lecturer in Language Education in the School of Education.

Background

With degrees in English and Linguistics from the University of Sydney, she has taught at the Universities of Sydney, Western Sydney and New England in Australia, as well as at tertiary level in Singapore, China, Seychelles and Vietnam.

Her current research deals with educational linguistics, spoken discourse analysis and teacher knowledge about language (KAL). She has recently published on Halliday’s theory of child language development (2019), classroom discourse analysis (with Pauline Jones & Alyson Simpson 2018, 2020) and assignment prompts for academic writing (with colleagues at ECU, 2021). She is currently working on a proposal for an edited book on dialogic classroom discourse with colleagues Pauline Jones (University of Wollongong) and Alyson Simpson (University of Sydney).

Anne has supervised six HDR (Higher Degree by Research) students to completion. She has studied French, Finnish, Chinese (Mandarin) and Spanish, and is currently learning Vietnamese.

Professional associations

  • 1994 - Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ASFLA)
  • 1994 - Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA)
  • 1994 - Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA)

Research areas and interests

  • Language in education
  • Knowledge about language (KAL)
  • Discourse analysis.
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