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Formal name: Anne Burns Position: Professor, Faculty of Human Sciences Personal Title: Professor Qualifications: BA Wales, GradDipTESOL Sydney CAE, MA Macq, PhD Macq Telephone: +61 2 9850 8604 Fax: +61 2 9850 9199 Location: C5A 573 Email: anne.burns@mq.edu.au

Profile

Anne Burns began her career in Applied Linguistics as a teacher, assistant principal and professional development officer in the NSW Adult Migrant English Service. Before this she worked as an English teacher in France, Kenya and Mauritius. In 1990 she joined the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie, where she has held joint positions as Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and as Coordinator of the Professional Development and Research Section (1992-1998) and Associate Director (1998-2003) in the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research (NCELTR). She became Associate Professor and Dean of Linguistics and Psychology in 2000. In 2003 she was appointed Adjunct Professor in the School of English and Applied Linguistics at UNITEC, Auckland and Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie.

She currently supervises PhD, Professional Doctorate and Masters (Hons) research students in applied linguistics, specialising in the areas of curriculum development, the teaching of spoken discourse, literacy, reading and writing, discourse analysis, action research, teacher beliefs and the applications of genre theory to language teaching.

Her publications include numerous authored and co-authored books on reading, grammar and spoken discourse and teacher research, and a single-authored book on action research (CUP, 1999). She is the joint editor of the Teachers' Voices Series (1-8) published by NCELTR from 1995-2005, which presents accounts of action research undertaken by Australian adult ESL teachers. Recent edited collections include Analysing English in a Global Context (with C. Coffin, 2001, Routledge) and Teaching English from a Global Perspective (2005, TESOL International). She has also written numerous journal articles and book chapters on action research, analysing and teaching spoken discourse, classroom-based research and curriculum development. She was Editor of Prospect from 1992-2000 and is currently the Reviews Editor for Reading in a Foreign Language. She serves on the Boards of Prospect, EA Journal, RELC Journal, TESL Reporter and Networks: An Online Journal of Action Reseach, Asian Journal of English Language Teaching and Profile.