Dr Paul Dufficy
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Senior Lecturer, Education |
Email: Phone: +61 2 9351 6211 Fax: +61 2 9351 2606 Building.Room: A35. |
Research interests
Research on teaching and learning
- English and literacy
Professional biography
Paul has taught general primary education as well as primary English as an additional language. He has taught in Australia, Pakistan, Japan, Thailand and, most recently, Indonesia.
Paul's main educational interest is in the professional development of teachers in the context of multilingual schools and classrooms.
At the faculty, Paul works with teachers in the field as well as with candidates enrolled in the Bachelor of Education and Master of Teaching programs during their early experiences as classroom teachers. He is currently working with a small team from a major international school in Jakarta researching the integratioin of English-as-an-additional-language pedagogy into mainstream classrooms.
Paul says the philosophy underpinning his work is "additive bilingualism", which describes his interst in researching the best methods (including classroom communication, task design and assessment) for using challenging academic tasks to teach children English as an additional language.
Awards
Faculty of Education and Social Work Teaching Excellence Award 2005
Current research students
| Project title | Degree | Research student |
|---|---|---|
| Collaborative work in EFL learning in a Vietnamese University. | PhD | Thuy Bich Thi Nguyen |
Selected publications
Book chapters
- Dufficy, P, Bremner, S. (2006). Meeting diverse reading needs in a multilingual classroom. In R Ewing (Ed.), Beyond the Reading Wars. Towards a balanced approach to helping children learn to read (pp. 71–81), Sydney: Primary English Teachers Association (PETA).
Journal articles
- Dufficy, P. (2005). Becoming' in classroom talk. Prospect: an Australian journal of TESOL , 20(1), 59–81.