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ProfessorBrian Paltridge

Professor of TESOL

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Orcid identifier0000-0002-3649-4060 (opens in a new tab)⁠
  • Professor of TESOL
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

BIO

BA (Well), GradDipTESOL (UTS), RSA CertTEFLA, RSADipTEFLA (Sydney), AssocDipCtyLangs (WSU), MA (Sydney), PhD (Waik), NAATI III

Professor Paltridge has taught English as a second language in Australia, New Zealand, and Italy. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and written books and book chapters for leading academic publishers.

He has taught postgraduate courses in the areas of second-language teaching and learning, language curriculum design and methodology, research methods, discourse analysis, English for specific purposes, writing for publication, and thesis and dissertation writing.

He has recently completed a book with Sue Starfield titled Change and Stability in Thesis and Dissertation Writing (Bloomsbury2024) and, with Matthew Prior, editedThe Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Discourse (Routledge2024).

He is included in the Stanford University list of the world's top 2% most influential researchers.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3649-4060

THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS

  • Professor of TESOL
    The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia1 Jan 2002 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor of Applied Linguistics
    Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand1 Jan 2001 - 31 Dec 2001
  • Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
    University of Melbourne, Australia1 Jan 1995 - 31 Dec 2000
  • Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
    University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand1 Jan 1992 - 31 Dec 1994

CERTIFICATIONS

  • PhD in Applied Linguistics
    University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
  • MA in Applied Linguistics
    University of Sydney
  • Grad Dip TESOL
    University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  • Assoc Dip Community Languages
    Western Sydney University, Australia
  • RSA Cert TEFLA
    Australian College of English
  • RSA Dip TEFLA
    Australian College of English
  • BA in Language
    Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

LANGUAGES

  • Italian
    Can peer review

SCHOOL

  • School of Education and Social Work

AVAILABILITY

  • Research supervision

AVAILABLE FOR MEDIA

  • Academics can be contacted directly or via media.office@sydney.edu.au

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)