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ProfessorBrian Paltridge

Professor of TESOL

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Professor of TESOL
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Research projects & supervision summary

Project Opportunities

Title: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Summary of opportunity:

The TESOL research program explores issues relating to language teaching and learning and socio-cultural aspects of language education. It also explores themes relating to language teaching and learning in second and foreign language contexts.

Opportunity synopsis:

Potential research areas in the area of TESOL include: Language Teaching and Learning, Second Language Acquisition, Intercultural Language Education, Bilingual Education, Language Testing and Assessment, English for Specific Purposes, Academic Writing, Language Teacher Professional Development, Critical Discourse Analysis. Genre Analysis, Vocabulary Learning, and Motivation

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Project Opportunities

Title: English for Academic Purposes

Summary of opportunity:

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.

Opportunity synopsis:

Research interests

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

  • English for academic purposes
  • English for research publication purposes
  • Thesis and dissertation writing

Keywords: Discourse analysis, academic writing, English for research publication purposes, TESOL


----------Current Research Projects----------

  • Professor Paltridge is currently working on a project with Sue Starfield titled Writing academic books: advice from published authors.

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • PROJECT
    Writing academic books: Advice from published authors
    3 Mar 2025
    Project leaders:
    • Paltridge B
    Collaborators:
    • Starfield S
  • PROJECT
    Business English education in China and the construction of professional identities
    1 Jan 2014
    Project leaders:
    • Zhang Z
    PhD thesis
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    “That’s the way I did it” A mixed methods study of the intertextual practices of first-year undergraduate Health Sciences students.
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Blame and responsibility in the global financial crisis
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Chinese PhD acknowledgements: A communities of practice perspective
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Editorials on terrorism in Chinese and English: A contrastive genre study
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    English language teacher employability and identity: An investigation into hiring experiences and beliefs in Australian adult English language teaching
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    How universities introduce themselves on the Internet.: A critical multimodal genre study
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Identities in Practice and Discourse: Transnational English Language Teachers
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Identity construction through literacy practices of international trainee English teachers.
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Learning Kanji in a second language:
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Teacher written feedback and student response to feedback in an ESL classroom
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Teacher written feedback and student revision: A socio-cognitive perspective
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The blog as genre and performance: An analysis of A-list personal blogs
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The discursive construction of the international dispute between China and Japan over islands in the East China Sea