DrMarie Stevenson

Project Opportunities

Title: Writing in a Second Language

Summary of opportunity:

Marie Stevenson is an applied linguist and educationalist whose main fields of expertise are literacy and language teaching. She has researched and written on a wide range of topics within these fields, including second language writing, academic literacy, literacy and technology, and teacher discourse. She has a keen interest in issues surrounding literacy and language education of both foreign language learners and migrants.

Opportunity synopsis:

Research interests

Writing, particularly in a second language

She is interested in writing from a wide variety of perspectives, and is particularly interested in how cognitive, linguistic and social perspectives on writing can be integrated.

Literacy and technology

She is interested in the critical examination of the use of technologies to develop literacy.

Discourse

She is interested in language use in written and spoken texts, and in the Discourses underlying this language use.

Equity and social justice

She is interested in issues surrounding equity and social justice in language and literacy policy and education, particularly in relation to migrants and refugees.

Supervision

She is interested in supervision in the above areas as well as:

• Discourse and language use
• Social justice in language and literacy policy and education

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

* Developing a framework for writing that integrates cognitive, linguistic and social perspectives

* Critically examining cogntive and social aspects of digital technologies designed to develop literacy

* Cultural competence in language teacher education