Brian Paltridge

Brian Paltridge is Director of Doctoral Studies and 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 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, Prospect, and The University of Sydney Papers in TESOL.

With Sue Starfield, he is editor of the journal English for Specific Purposes. He is also general editor of the University of Sydney Papers in TESOL. He is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, the EA Journal and the Chinese Journal of ESP.

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 is also editing a book titled New Directions for ESP Research with Diane Belcher and Ann Johns to be published by the University of Michigan Press, a book on discourse analysis with Ken Hyland for the Continuum Companion series and, with Sue Starfield, a Handbook of English for Specific Purposes to be published by Blackwell.

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 is currently involved in an ARC funded project with Sue Starfield and Louise Ravelli titled Writing in the academy: the practice-based thesis as an evloving genre.

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

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