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Professor Brian Paltridge

BA(Well), AssocDipCtyLang(UWS), GradDipTESOL(UTS), MA(Sydney), PhD(Waik), RSADipTEFL(Sydney)

Research Development Coordinator

Email:

Phone: +61 2 9351 3160

Fax: +61 2 9351 2606

Building.Room: A35.444

Research interests

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

  • English for academic purposes

Keywords

Discourse analysis, genre analysis, second-language writing, English for specific purposes


Professional biography

Brian has taught English as a second language in Australia, New Zealand, and Italy and has published extensively internationally in peer-reviewed journals. His current projects include two books:

  • Handbook of English for Specific Purposes, edited with Sue Starfield to be published by Wiley-Blackwell
  • Discourse Analysis (second edition) to be published by Continuum.

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

Brian maintains personal webpages from which detailed information is available about his:


Awards

  • Excellence in Teaching Award 2002, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney

  • Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision 2005, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney


Professional and community roles


Current projects

  • A cross-national study of the relative impact on an oral component on PhD examination quality, language and practice (with Alyyson Holbrook, Sid Bourke and Terry Lovat, University of Newcastle, Margaret Kiley, Australian National University and Sue Starfield, University of New South Wales) Australian Research Council Discovery Grant 2011-2013.

Current research students

Project title Degree Research student
Business English education in China and the construction of professional identities. PhD Zuocheng Zhang
The intercultural discourse of university introductions: a genre analysis of university web-pages. PhD Wenchao Sara Tu

Selected publications

Books

  • Paltridge, B. and S. Starfield (eds). (2013). Handbook of English for Specific Purposes. Boston: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Paltridge, B. (2012). Discourse Analysis. . (2nd ed.), London: Continuum.
  • Hyland, K. and B. Paltridge (eds). (2011). Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis. London: Continuum.
  • Belcher, D., A. Johns and B. Paltridge (eds). (2011). New Directions in English for Specific Purposes Research. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Paltridge, B, and A. Phakiti. (eds). (2010). Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. London: Continuum.
  • Paltridge, B., L. Harbon, D. Hirsh, A. Phakiti, H. Shen, M. Stevenson and L. Woodrow . (2009). Teaching Academic Writing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Paltridge, B, Starfield, S. (2007). Thesis and dissertation writing in a second language: A handbook for supervisors. London: Routledge Falmer.
  • Paltridge, B. (2006). Discourse analysis.. London, New York: Continuum.
  • Paltridge, B. (2001). Genre and the language learning classroom. Ann Arbor, USA: University of Michigan Press.

Book chapters

  • Mahboob, A. and B. Paltridge. (2013). Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Applied Linguistics.. In C. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Paltridge, B. (2013). Genre and English for specific purposes.. In B. Paltridge and S. Stafield (Eds.), Handbook of English for Specific Purposes. Boston: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Starfield, S., B. Paltridge and L. Ravelli. . (2012). “Why do we have to write?”: Practice-based theses in the visual and performing arts and the place of writing.. In V.J. Bhatia and C. Berkenkotter (Eds.), Insights into Academic Genres. Bern: Peter Lang.
  • Paltridge, B. (2012). Theses and dissertations in English for specific purposes.. In C. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Paltridge, B. and L. Woodrow. (2012). Thesis and dissertation writing: Moving beyond the text.. In R. Tang (Ed.), Academic Writing in a Second or Foreign Language: Issues and Challenges Facing ESL/EFL Academic Writers in Higher Education Contexts. (pp. 88–104), London: Continuum.
  • Paltridge, B. (2012). Teaching English for specific purposes. . In A. Burns and J. Richards (Eds.), The Cambridge Guide to Pedagogy and Practice in Second Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Paltridge, B. (2012). Theses and dissertations in English for specific purposes. In C. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Paltridge, B., A. Thomas and J. Liu. (2011). Genre, performance and Sex and the City. In R. Piazza, F. Rossi and M. Bednarek (Eds.), Telecinematic Discourse: An Introduction to the Fictional Language of Cinema and Television. (pp. 249–262), Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Paltridge, B. and W. Wang. (2011). Contextualising ESP research: Media discourses in China and Australia.. In D. Belcher, A.M. Johns and B. Paltridge (Eds.), New Directions in ESP Research Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Paltridge, B. and S. Starfield. (2011). Research in English for specific purposes. In E. Hinkel (Ed.), Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning. (Vol. 2, pp. 196–121), London: Routledge.
  • Paltridge, B. and W. Wang. (2010). Researching discourse. In B. Paltridge and A. Phakiti (Eds.), Continuum Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (pp. 256–273), London: Continuum.
  • Paltridge, B. . (2009). Where have we come from and where are we now? . In D. Belcher (Ed.), English for Specific Purposes in Theory and Practice (pp. 289–296), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Paltridge, B. and L. Harbon. . (2008). Intercultural competency and the international student experience.. In J. van Rij-Heyligers (Ed.), Intercultural Communications across University Settings: Myths and Realities. (pp. 55–65), Auckland: Pearson Education.
  • Ohashi, J, Ohashi, H, Paltridge, B. (2008). Finishing the dissertation while on tenure track: Enlisting support from inside and outside the academy. In Casanave C, Li X (Ed.), Learning the Literacy Practices of Graduate School: Insiders' Reflections on Academic Enculturation (Vol. 1, pp. 218–229), Ann Arbor, USA: University of Michigan Press.
  • Paltridge, B. (2007). Approaches to genre in ELT. In Jim Cummins and Chris Davison (Eds.), International handbook of English language teaching (Vol. 2, pp. 931–943), New York, NY: Springer.
  • Paltridge, B. (2007). Approaches to teaching writing and College English textbooks. In D.L. Qiu and J. Cai (Eds.), The Explorations and Prospectives for College English Textbooks (pp. 73–87), Shanghai: Fudan University Press.
  • Paltridge, B. (2005). Discourse analysis. In , Encyclopedia of Linguistics New York: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.

Journal articles

  • Paltridge, B. S. Starfield, L. Ravelli, S. Nicholson and K. Tuckwell. (2013). Doctoral writing in the visual and performing arts: Two ends of a continuum. . Studies in Higher Education. . DOI:10.1080/03075079.2011.562285
  • Paltridge, B., S. Starfield, L. Ravelli and S. Nicholson. (2011). Doctoral writing in the visual and performing arts: Issues and debates. The International Journal of Art and Design Education. .
  • Paltridge, B. (2010). Discourse relations, semantic relations and English in academic settings.. Journal of Maori and Pacific Development. , 11(1), 19–26.
  • Burns, A, Paltridge, B, Wigglesworth, G. (2008). Review of doctoral research in second language teaching and learning in Australia (2003-2006). Language Teaching, 41(2), 275–295.
  • Paltridge, B. (2008). Textographies and the researching and teaching of writing. Iberica, 15, 9–24.
  • Paltridge, B. (2007). Beyond the text: A textography of Chinese College English writing . University of Sydney Papers in TESOL, 2(2), 149–165.
  • Paltridge, B. (2006). Review of Metadiscourse: Exploring Interaction in Writing. Journal of Pragmatics, 39(1), 226–227.
  • Paltridge, B, Johns, A, Bawarshi, A, Coe, R, Hyland, K, Reiff, M, Tardy, C. (2006). Crossing the boundaries of genre studies: commentaries by experts. Journal of Second Language Writing, 15, 234–239.
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