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Honorary Professor Geoff Williams

BEd(Sydney), MA(Hons)(Sydney), Phd(Linguistics)(Macquarie)

Honorary Professor

Email:

Phone: +61 2 9036  5368

Fax: +61 2 9351 5027

Building.Room: A35: Room 904.

Research interests

Research on teaching and learning

  • Early childhood education
  • English and literacy

Keywords

Literacy education, ontogenesis of ways of meaning, semantic variation, social semiotics


Professional biography

Additional to his honorary appointment at this University, Geoff is a regular Academic Visitor to Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a member of the PolySystemic Research Group there.

He is an Emeritus Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Earlier, he held senior lecturer appointments at the University of Sydney in the Faculty of Education (1979-1993) and the Faculty of Arts, Department of English (1993-2005).  


Awards

  • University Medal (MA thesis)

  • NSW Institute of Education Research Prize


Professional and community roles

  • Member, Centre for Language in Social Life, Macquarie University (2003 – present)

  • Review Editor, Linguistics and the human sciences (2004 – present)


Current projects

  • Discourse recontextualization in early language development
  • Health care communication in hospital emergency departments.
  • The poetics of children's picture books

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