Professor Brian Paltridge
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BA(Well), AssocDipCtyLang(UWS), GradDipTESOL(UTS), RSADipTEFL(Sydney), MA(Sydney), PhD(Waik) Professor, TESOL Associate Dean and Director, Doctoral Studies |
Email: Phone: +61 2 9351 3160 Fax: +61 2 9351 2606 Building.Room: A35.445 |
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 editing two books:
- New Directions for ESP Research, with Diane Belcher and Ann Johns, to be published by the University of Michigan Press
- Companion to Discourse Analysis, with Ken Hyland for the Continuum companion series.
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, 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
General Editor, University of Sydney Papers in TESOL
Co-editor, English for Specific Purposes
Convenor, TESOL Research Network, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
Member of editorial board, Journal of English for Academic Purposes
Member of editorial board, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
Member of editorial board, EA Journal
Current projects
- Writing in the academy: the practice-based thesis as an evolving genre. This project aims to examine the particular nature and character of practice-based doctoral theses and, via this examination, to make both practical and theoretical contributions to the field of research higher degree supervision and training and advanced academic literacies research (with Sue Starfield and Louise Ravelli, University of New South Wales) Australian Research Council Discovery Grant 2008-2010.
Current research students
| Project title | Degree | Research student |
|---|---|---|
| A critical examination of a Business English classroom in China | PhD | Sarah Bedford |
| The blog as genre and performance: An analysis of Chinese A-list personal blogs. | PhD | Jian Xin Liu |
| Chinese PhD acknowledgements: A communities of practice perspective | EdD | Hua Peng |
| Business English education in China and the construction of professional identities. | PhD | Zuocheng Zhang |
Selected publications
Books
- Paltridge, B, Phakiti, A. (2010). Companion to research methods in applied Linguistics. London: Continuum.
- Paltridge, B., Harbon, L. Hirsh,D., Phakiti, A., Shen, H., Stevenson, M., & Woodrow, L.,. (2009). Teaching academic writing. Ann Arbor, USA: Michigan University 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: An introduction. London, New York: Continuum.
- Paltridge, B. (2001). Genre and the language learning classroom. Ann Arbor, USA: University of Michigan Press.
Book chapters
- Paltridge, B, Harbon, L. (2008). Intercultural competency and the international student experience. In van Rij-Heyligers, Josta (Ed.), Intercultural Communications across University Settings: Myths and Realities (pp. 55–65), Rosedale, NZ: Pearson Education New Zealand.
- 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
- 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.