Brian Paltridge

Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney.

Biography

Brian has a BA in Language from Victoria University of Wellington, an Associate Diploma in Interpreting and Translation from the University of Western Sydney, the RSA Diploma in TEFLA, and a Graduate Diploma in TESOL from the University of Technology, Sydney. His MA in Applied Linguistics is from the University of Sydney. His PhD, for which he was awarded an MAK Halliday Scholarship from the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, is from the University of Waikato and is in the area of discourse analysis.

He has published in ELT Journal, the Journal of Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics, World Englishes, System, Cross Currents, The Teacher Trainer, English Teaching Forum, English for Specific Purposes, EA Journal, Language Teaching, the Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics, TESOL Matters, TESOL in Context, Iberica, Melbourne Papers in Applied Linguistics, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, the New Zealand Language Teacher, the TESOLANZ Journal, New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics, The Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Prospect, the University of Sydney Papers in TESOL, Iberica, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, the Journal of Second Language Writing, the Journal of Maori and Pacific Development, Studies in Higher Education and the International Journal of Art and Design Education.

He is an Editor Emeritus for the journal English for Specific Purposes, general editor of the University of Sydney Papers in TESOL and a member of the editorial board for the EA Journal, the Taiwan International ESP Journal and the Chinese Journal of ESP. He is an honorary advisor to the Advisory Board of the English for specific purposes committee of the China Foreign Languages Education Committee.

He is author of Genre, Frames and Writing in Research Settings (John Benjamins, 1997), Making Sense of Discourse Analysis (AEE Publishing, 2000), Genre and the Language Learning Classroom (University of Michigan Press, 2001), Discourse Analysis (Continuum, 2006) and, with Sue Starfield, co-author of Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language (Routledge, 2007). He has recently completed a book titled Teaching Academic Writing with his TESOL colleagues at the University of Sydney (University of Michigan Press, 2009) and, with Aek Phakiti, an edited volume titled Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (Continuum, 2010). He has also edited a book titled New Directions in English for Specific Purposes Research with Diane Belcher and Ann Johns for the University of Michigan Press, and a Companion to Discourse Analysis with Ken Hyland for Continuum. With Sue Starfield, he is currently editing a Handbook of English for Specific Purposes to be published by Blackwell in their Handbooks in Linguistics series. The second edition of his book Discourse Analysis will be published by Continuum in 2012.

Brian has taught English as a second and foreign language in Australia, New Zealand, and Italy. He has taught postgraduate courses in the areas of second language teaching and learning, language curriculum design and methodology, language testing, research methods, discourse analysis, English for specific purposes, second language acquisition, and thesis and dissertation writing. In 2007 he was a Visiting Professor to the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong and in 2005/2006 a Visiting Professor to the Linguistic Institute for International Communication at Sophia University in Japan.

His research interests include academic writing, English for specific purposes, and critical discourse studies. He has recently completed an ARC funded project with Sue Starfield and Louise Ravelli titled Writing in the academy: the practice-based thesis as an evolving genre and is presently part of an ARC funded project that examines the language and practices of doctoral examiners' reports.

He teaches on the MEd in TESOL and is Director of the Faculty's TESOL Research Network.

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