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Department of Linguistics

Heather Jackson

Research, consultancies, publications and conference papers

Research 

1997-2000 Development of Energy Smart Homes Program for NSW Councils for
Role: Communications consultant for SEDA (Sustainable Energy Development Authority) program that researched and designed a mandatory sustainable energy construction program for NSW councils.

1997 NCELTR funded research into training for Learner Autonomy and its implications for teacher training.
Role: Research and design of programs and materials to encourage ESL teachers to develop learner autonomy.

1994-5 ARC/MURG funded project into: Professional and Discoursal practices in Institutional and Workplace Conflict Resolution
Role: Research Assistant for data collection, transcription and discourse analysis in a variety of industry settings.

Projects carried out for MA Applied Linguistics include:
  • 1994 Distancing and Alignment Strategies in Political Discourse. An analysis of the discourse of the American Political Debate
  • 1993 Communication issues affecting Cross-cultural marriages and de-facto relationships. Research surveys conducted with couples in cross-cultural marriages.
  • 1992 Classroom theory and its relationship to practice. Audio data collection and classroom observation of several ELT classroom interactions.
  • 1992 The effectiveness of team teaching. Research through classroom observation and focus groups with team teaching groups.

 

Reports, publications & conference papers

Reports

2001 Cleaning Sydney Harbour: Community Relations in the delivery of the North side Storage Tunnel, Manidis Roberts Consultants, Sydney, Australia.

1997 Energy Smart Homes Policy – SEDA (Sustainable Development Education Authority), Sydney, Australia.

Book Chapters

Industrial instability and the discourse of enterprise bargaining. C.N.Candlin, Y. Maley & H. Sutch (1999)

In Sarangi S and Roberts C. (eds) Talk, Work and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation and Management Settings. Berlin. Mouton de Gruyter (p323-349)

Journal Articles

1994 Replacing Plagiarism with Conversation, TESOL/EFL Newsletter 15:1 autumn 1994

1988 China: Teaching in a rapidly changing society, Kyushu Post 1:6 Nov 1988

Dissertation

1994 Distancing and Alignment Strategies in Political Discourse, MA Dissertation     
       

Conference Papers

2008 The role of trust in CSR, HDR Research Festival, Macquarie University

1999 The delivery of effective community consultation programs, IAP2 conference, Sydney Australia

1997 The promotion of learner autonomy, ALAA Conference, Sydney Australia.

 

 

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